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Biden Tells Iran Not To Expect Instant Sanctions Relief

An Iran nuclear deal will not include substantial sanctions relief at the front end, Vice President Joe Biden said. “If at the front end they expect there to be total sanction relief or significant sanction relief, there will be no deal,” Biden said in an address in Cambridge, Mass., on Friday to a Democratic political…

By JTA Apr 20, 2015 | < 1 min read
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Joe Biden Lights Menorah With Praise for Jews

Jewish notions of religious freedom so informed the American ethos that it is “is fair to say that Jewish heritage is American heritage,” Vice President Joe Biden said at a menorah lighting in front of the White House. Biden, attending the event Tuesday organized by American Friends of Lubavitch, cited the work of Emma Lazarus,…

By JTA Dec 16, 2014 | < 1 min read
The Schmooze
Even Joe Biden Can’t Screw This Up

Vice President Joe Biden will assist in the lighting this year of the Hanukkah menorah on the ellipse in front of the White House. Biden’s participation on Dec. 16, the first night of the holiday, marks the 35th anniversary of the first lighting of the “National Menorah,” an event sponsored by American Friends of Lubavitch,…

By JTA Dec 10, 2014 | < 1 min read
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Joe Biden Says Iran Nuclear Talks Working

Vice President Joe Biden said on Saturday there was a “less than even shot” of a nuclear deal with Iran but that it was still worth pursuing. Biden, speaking at a forum on the Middle East at the Brookings Institution think tank, rejected calls for more sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear program because “this…

By Reuters Dec 6, 2014 | < 1 min read
Opinion
When Israel’s Chickens Come Home to Poop

The policies of Israel’s longest-serving prime minister are starting to bear an eerie resemblance to climate change: The critics all look like a bunch of whining scaremongers prophesying an implausibly apocalyptic ruination that’s sure to come in some fuzzily distant end-time. Even if it’s true, it’s too far away to worry about. That is, until…

By J.J. Goldberg Nov 2, 2014 | 5 min read
Opinion
Settlements, Snub Cause Latest U.S.-Israel Strain

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning a massive new wave of construction in the West Bank, according to a report Sunday night on Israel’s Channel 2 News. It’s part of a deal to calm his restive allies in the settler-backed Jewish Home party. The Channel 2 report has since been confirmed independently by Haaretz,…

By J.J. Goldberg Oct 27, 2014 | 4 min read
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Joe Biden Sorry for Calling Unscrupulous Lenders ‘Shylock’

Vice President Joe Biden acknowledged that he made a “poor choice of words” in using the term “Shylock” to describe unscrupulous lenders. Biden was reacting Wednesday to remarks by Abraham Foxman, the Anti-Defamation League’s national director, in response to the vice president’s use of the term this week. Speaking to the Legal Services Organization, a…

By JTA Sep 17, 2014 | < 1 min read
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Obama Names Envoy to Ailing Holocaust Survivor Community

The Obama administration named a special envoy to the Holocaust survivor community. Aviva Sufian, a staff member at the Health Department’s Administration for Community Living, will be the “Special Envoy for U.S. Holocaust Survivor Services,” a White House announcement said Friday. “Her work as Special Envoy will focus on those survivors currently living in poverty,…

By JTA Jan 26, 2014 | < 1 min read

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