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Opinion On My Last Day as ADL Director, I’m Worried About Iran
Today is the last day of my long tenure as national director of the Anti-Defamation League. It has been a highly satisfactory and meaningful 28 years as director and 50 years as a professional at this prestigious organization. So why am I choosing to write an article on my last day? It is the same…
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Opinion The Iran Letter I’d Write If I Were Still a Federation CEO
As a lifelong Zionist and a former 19-year Jewish federation chief executive, I was dismayed by to encourage members to urge their congressional representatives to vote against the Iran nuclear deal. While I can imagine that federation boards and executives are under no small amount of pressure to weigh in on this important issue, I…
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Breaking News U.S. Defense Secretary: Military Strike Still an Option Despite Iran Deal
The Obama administration is maintaining and improving the option of a military strike as a means of preventing an Iranian nuclear weapon even as a nuclear deal goes ahead, U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said. “One of the reasons why this deal is a good one is that it does nothing to prevent the military…
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Breaking News U.N. Security Council and EU Approve Iran Deal
The United Nations Security Council and the European Union both approved the Iran nuclear deal. The 15 members of the Security Council in New York unanimously adopted a resolution on Monday to approve the agreement reached in Vienna last week between Iran and the world powers. Under the resolution, the United Nations will lift its…
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Breaking News President Obama Sends Iran Deal to Wary Congress
President Barack Obama’s administration sent a nuclear agreement with Tehran to Congress on Sunday and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged U.S. lawmakers to reject a deal he said would only feed an “Iranian terror machine.” In a first concrete sign of European determination to quickly rebuild economic and political ties with Iran after a…
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Opinion Europe Has Had Enough of Benjamin Netanyahu
Europe and Israel don’t see eye-to-eye on Iran — and maybe never will. Netanyahu believes that any deal with Iran should tie its behavior to sanctions relief. It’s a good argument to make, when you consider the history of Iran’s sponsorship of terrorism and its tendency to say one thing but mean another. And yet,…
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Breaking News Miami, Boston Jewish Federations Blast Iran Nuclear Deal
Two major Jewish federations, in Boston and Miami, are urging local Jews to oppose the Iran nuclear deal. “We encourage members of the community to reach out to their elected representatives in the House and the Senate to express their deep concern, and to urge them to vote against this deal,” the Combined Jewish Philanthropies…
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Breaking News 47% of Israelis Back Military Strike on Iran
Forty-seven percent of respondents in a survey conducted by Maariv, an Israeli daily, supported a military strike to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear arms. Seventy-one percent of Israelis say they believe accord brings Iran closer to bomb, and 51 percent support bypassing Obama in effort to nix it. The poll was published Friday after Tuesday’s…
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