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The group warned that curbing the power of the high court and other institutions will ‘provoke a rift' with the international scientific community
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Opinion AIPAC’s endorsements risk irreparably damaging the U.S.-Israel relationship
For pro-Israel Americans and the journalists who cover them, AIPAC Policy Conference was the annual see-and-be-seen event. More than 18,000 of us descended on Washington each March for three days of parties, panels, networking and a lobbying day on Capitol Hill. Top donors were treated to a blowout party with enough members of Congress to…
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Opinion Reform Jews helped write US voting rights laws. Today, rabbis are arrested for defending them
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