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Opinion Hamas rocketed my hometown — and the White House is responsible
As I write, the sirens have stopped wailing, the Iron Dome has finished its dull thumping, and people have left the bomb shelters. Gaza’s rocketeers have switched their sights from my hometown Beit Shemesh, but the sky over Tel Aviv is now lit up with a murderous pyrotechnic display. Across Israel, tens of thousands of…
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News Biden can neither ignore nor address Israeli-Palestinian violence
As President Biden is preparing to engage in talks with Republican leaders on a bold infrastructure package, a rash of events in the Middle East is threatening to pull the U.S. back into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Biden administration immediately condemned “in the strongest terms” the rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into Israel late…
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News Israel ambassador likely to be named this week, with shortlist narrowed to two
President Joe Biden has narrowed down his list of candidates for ambassador to Israel to two candidates who have strong ties to the pro-Israel community. Tom Nides, a former official in the Clinton and Obama administrations; and Robert Wexler, a former congressman from Florida, are both on the short list for one of the high-profile…
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Opinion We’re Jewish advocates for refugees. Biden’s inertia means Congress must act.
While President Biden made mention of immigration reform in his first address to Congress this week, the fate of refugees was conspicuously absent. After weeks of whiplash for refugees and their advocates, we’re still waiting for clarity on a path forward. On April 16, President Biden announced he would maintain the limit on the number…
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News Analysis: Why Biden’s attempt to return to the nuclear deal with Iran is not causing alarm … yet
Six years ago, the Jewish American community was evenly divided over a key issue that would help define President Barack Obama’s foreign policy legacy. A survey conducted by the Jewish Journal in July 2015 showed that 49% of American Jews supported the nuclear deal with Iran while 31% were opposed. The debate tore apart even…
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Culture James Carville tells Democrats to ‘start speaking Yiddish’
James Carville thinks Yiddish should be the language of voter outreach. Well, kind of. In an interview with Vox, the longtime political consultant and “Muppets” cast member expressed his concern about “jargon-y language” surrounding subjects like race, suggesting a more accessible form of messaging for Democrats. “I always tell people that we’ve got to stop…
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Fast Forward ‘Relieved but disappointed’: How America’s Jewish refugee aid agency is doing 3 months after Trump
(JTA) — Three weeks after taking office, Joe Biden announced that he would quadruple the number of refugees allowed into the United States. For HIAS, it seemed like an answered prayer, as the Jewish refugee aid agency had endured a rough four years under Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump. HIAS, which once focused on resettling refugees,…
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Opinion Biden’s Palestinian aid package is a start — but doesn’t go nearly far enough
Last week, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared the U.S. would restore financial assistance to the Palestinians with a first package totaling $235 million. The package comes as part of what the Biden administration described in a press release as its commitment “to advancing prosperity, security, and freedom for both Israelis and Palestinians in…
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