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Arabs mistakenly attacked an Arab car, and a group of Arab stone throwers were captured.
Holland’s Jews joined millions in the Dutch country on Wednesday and celebrated the coronation of Willem-Alexander as Holland’s new king with a special prayer and an ancient traditional blessing. On the eve of the coronation, a special traditional ceremony was held in the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam. This ancient synagogue, which is lit only by […]
No imagination could write a weirder post-9/11 script – the removal of a wing from one of the jets hijacked by Muslim terrorists and discovered at the site of a new mosque. No human remains found.
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The FBI has arrested a Los Angeles man who allegedly operated a Ponzi scheme targeting the city's Iranian Jewish community. Shervin Davatgarzadeh, also known as Shervin Neman, was taken into custody on suspicion of defrauding $3 million from mostly Jewish Iranian-American investors, the FBI said. According to the indictment, Davatgarzadeh posed as a hedge fund […]
The surgery was a complete success, but the surviving twin is still not out of danger.
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Fred Lafer, a longtime leader of several Jewish institutions, died Tuesday in New Jersey after suffering from leukemia. Lafer served as president and chairman of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy beginning in 2000. He also was chairman of the executive committee of the Shalom Hartman Institute of Jerusalem's board of directors. He also […]
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Wednesday with a delegation of senior members of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, led by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA.) "The last time I was here, we had a situation during the Second Lebanon War,” said Rep. Royce. “I was in Haifa and I saw what things […]
Three additional suspects are in custody - two had been detained on immigration charges and the third was arrested on May 1 - all for allegedly interfering with evidence sought in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing case.
The BBC strikes again. Known for its bias against Israel, it said that a documentary claiming that man “Palestinians” of today actually are descendants of Jews did “not fit editorially.” How true.
Syrian President Bashar Assad visited a Damascus power station on May Day Wednesday in a rare public appearance, according to the regime’s television station. The television station showed Assad speaking to workers and shaking their hands, He has tried to show Syrians that all is “business as usual” despite the bloody civil war and charges […]
It’s been over a year since global headlines featured Naama Margolese, eight years old at the time, being spit on and verbally assaulted by several haredim in Beit Shemesh for not adhering to their standards of modesty. Understandably, the image of a young girl being called “prostitute” during her walk to school evoked the ire of thousands. The rift between secular and ultra-Orthodox Jews grew in size and depth.
The IDF has confirmed reports that Lebanese soldiers caught an Israeli citizen who jumped over the border fence near Rosh HaNikra, on the northeast Mediterranean Coast. His identity has not been released, and it is not known if he is Jewish or an Arab, nor are there any clues regarding his motives. Israeli army officials […]
JERUSALEM – With strong evidence that Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have used chemical weapons against civilians, Israeli and Western military commanders are contemplating a series of air strikes and commando operations against a select group of targets inside Syria.
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is paying $2.05 billion for the remaining 20 percent of IMC International Metalworking Co, otherwise known as Isracar, completing the buyout that began with the giant $4 billion purchase of 80 percent of the company in 2006. “We are delighted to acquire the portion of the company that was retained by […]
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Gravestones and bones from an 18th century Turkish Jewish cemetery 20 feet underground were unearthed during construction on an underground tunnel in the city of Izmi, the Hurriyet Daily News reported Wednesday. The gravestones were left in the ground and the bones were delivered to representatives of Izmir's Jewish community, who will rebury them in […]
Will Mona Seif become, like Samira Ibrahim, one whose social media activity rocketed her to a spot in the global limelight, but then caused her ignominious downfall as well?
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President Obama cited the Jewish striving for freedom and the U.S.-Israel bond in his Jewish American Heritage Month declaration. "Jewish immigrants from all over the world wove new threads into our cultural fabric with rich traditions and indomitable faith, and their descendants pioneered incredible advances in science and the arts," Obama said Tuesday in declaring […]
The Fatah party, headed by Mahmoud “Peace Partner” Abbas, quickly responded to Tuesday’s murder of a Jew. It did not condemn it, No, it praised the terrorist. John Kerry, are you reading this?
Obama gets ready to strike Assad. Hezbollah drags Lebanon into the war. And guess who is the most likely victim? Israel. That’s why the IDF called up 2,000 reservists for a surprise drill in the north.
A group of girls managed to reach the hospital room in Beilinson (Rabin) Hospital, where the terrorist who murdered Evyatar Borovsky is currently recovering. The girls began a loud protest, demanding the death sentence for the terrorist. Police managed to remove 10 girls from the hospital building.
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Israel's national soccer team will be making its first New York appearance in decades for a match against Honduras at Citi Field on June 2. The match will coincide with New York’s annual Celebrate Israel parade, according to an announcement on Tuesday by the New York Mets, who play at the Queens ballpark. It will […]
The US is preparing for an attack on Syria but Obama won’t give the order to “fire” until he is sure he has enough proof that Assad is using chemical weapons.
President Barack Obama has scheduled a press conference for 10:15 a.m. (EDT) Tuesday, and he is all but certain to face questions regarding American intentions concerning the use of chemical weapons in Syria and the continuing revelations of faulty intelligence on the Boston Marathon terrorists. Gun control and spending cuts also may be on the […]
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The Philharmonic Orchestra of Monte-Carlo will perform a “Violins of Hope” concert in Monaco featuring Several violins of Jewish Holocaust victims murdered by the Nazis The concert will be held May 5 at Monaco’s Grimaldi Forum, and the stories of their owners will be told, according to a report in the Nice, France Matain daily. The […]
Arab youths near Efrat have been escalating their attacks against Jewish motorists driving down the main highway near Efrat. For the second day in a row, Arab youths have been throwing stones at cars driving down Highway 60, near the northern entrance to the town. Earlier today, the Arabs escalated their attacks and also tried […]
A direct hit was confirmed by the IAF.
Last week, police executed a search warrant in the couple's former home in Dewitt.
A University of Connecticut Law School student was arrested by campus police and charged with harassment and breach of peace offenses after a series of emails and online posts, West Hartford Eyewitness News reported. According to court documents, Anya Bargh was picked up by police following the discovery of racist and anti-Semitic emails to university […]
"We need a mayor who is not going to be confused by so many of these liberal ideas."
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In a speech to the Anti-Defamation League, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder urged Americans to protect the rights of Muslims and other minorities in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing. "The battle for the safety and rights of all Americans -- all Americans -- must be our common endeavor," Holder told a conference in […]
A Palestinian terrorist killed a Jew at Tapuach Junction, not long after being released from jail for a previous terror attack.
Dustin Hoffman was unable to attend, so the Muslim Public Affairs Council found another Jew to present the Israel-hater with their Media Award.
Eye witness reports say that a massive fire is engulfing the mountain tops near the IDF Mitkan Adam army base. 25 Fire Engine crews are working to put out the blaze and prevent it from spreading to Road 6. Soldiers are currently being evacuated from the base. Some people have been reported as lightly injured. […]
"It's about winning. Because if we are only here to blow a horn, it's not good enough."
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For the first time in the history of the Masorti movement, its rabbis performed conversions to Judaism in Portugal. The two conversions were performed in the Portuguese capital at a Beit Din rabbinical court of three judges, who recognized Juliana Fernandes da Silva and her life partner Edgard Pimentel as Jews. Though the Masorti movement […]
Surveillance cameras were not enough to catch the Boston Marathon terrorists. The Israeli-based BriefCam firm “collapsed” an hour of video and focused on suspicious objects – and people.
Rebels, termed “terrorists” by the Assad regime, killed six people in a car bomb explosion in Damascus that failed to claim the life of its main target, Prime Minister Wael al-Halaqi. Official state media broadcast the report of the car bomb, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed it. The apparent suicide attack was […]
When is a dress code legal and when it is a violation of human rights? That seems to depend on whether you are a Chasidic Jewish shop owner in New York.
The British High Commissioner of Palestine viewed Jewish fighters there in the 1940s as analogous to Nazis, newly published records show. On April 30, 1948, Alan Cunningham wrote to his superiors that as the Jews celebrated military successes, their “broadcasts, both in content and in manner of delivery, are remarkably like those of Nazi Germany." […]
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The IDF said it will stop using shells containing white phosphorus, although the military’s controlled use of them is legal. Phosphorus generally is used to set up smokescreens to hide troop movement and was used in the Operation Cast Lead campaign in the winter of 2008-2009. The material can cause serious burns, but Hamas claimed […]
Egypt is urging Palestinian Authority PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to postpone elections while trying to convince the rival Hamas terrorist organization to drop demands for simultaneous presidential and legislative elections. Holding elections at this time, which already is four years after Abbas’ mandate has expired, would torpedo efforts for a unity government, sauces told the […]
Palestinian Authority Arabs Monday morning hurled rocks at motorists on Route 443, which connects Modi’in with Jerusalem, despite two checkpoints on the highway that also serves as alternate route to Highway 1 to Jerusalem. No injuries were reported. The Supreme Court three years ago ordered that the government open the road to Palestinian Authority drivers, […]
There were many reports that Israeli jets flew over Syrian President's palace on Saturday, but did they also bomb a chemical weapons site nearby?
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An exquisite collection, across generations.
Can prayer in the name of Jesus be all inclusive just like a rabbi’s prayer? Jewish legislators in Florida say they don’t like being “JCd." Maybe they should get back at them with a few shofar blasts.
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An Israeli invention will allow nursing mothers to measure how much milk her baby drinks at a feeding, and how much milk she has available in her breast. The device, MilkSense, is the first product to be developed by the Israeli startup Bradley and Luka. MilkSense uses electromagnetic signals to measure the amount of milk […]
The absence of Haredi parties in the government is already being, and women probably will be among those nominating Israel’s next rabbinic judges and chief rabbis.
It took five days, but United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon finally said he “rejects” United Nations Human Rights Council official Richard Falk’s comments that cited “the American global domination project: and US-Israeli relations as provocations for the bombings. Falk, a Jewish American who has long history of accusing Israel of “war crimes” and “apartheid, […]
The Netanyahu government is going “politically correct” and will make sure the next serious of Israel shekel bills will feature a Sephardi Jew following last year’s four new banknotes that featured only Ashkenazi Jews. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he personally prefers that the “Sephardi shekel bill” feature poet Rabbi Yehuda HaLevy, calling […]
Rada, an Israeli company, is gearing up for production of its new tactical radar that the U.S. Army and the IDF may use to pinpoint the source of mortar fire and rocket fire. Rada has successfully tested its Multi-mission Hemispheric Radar (MHR), the independent Israel Defense website reported. The U.S. Army asked Rada to carry […]
An Moroccan immigrant to the United States who plotted to blow up synagogues in New York City was sentenced on Friday to five years in jail and faces deportation after his release. Mohammed Mamdouh pleaded guilty last year to conspiring to commit terrorism and criminal weapon possession. He was an accomplice to Algerian immigrant Ahmed […]
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A Dutch chief rabbi said his community was “vexed” because a farewell event for the Dutch queen was scheduled on Yom Kippur. “Jews are again faced with a reality in which they don’t belong and that is painful,” Holland’s chief interprovincial rabbi, Binyomin Jacobs, told NRC Handelsblad on April 26. On Yom Kippur, the Day […]
The government and Hamas act like two lightweight boxers. A jab here, and fake there – until a “lucky” punchy Hamas gives the IDF an excuse to deliver a 1-2, but not a knockout.
A Syrian rebel army spokesman said Sunday that Israeli Air Force fighter jets were observed circling in sky over Damascus. He said the planes flew over Assad's palace and over security and military institutions in the Syrian capital. Last Thursday, the Israeli Air Force thwarted an attempt to infiltrate Israel's airspace by a drone belonging […]
Nine cars caught fire in the UN compound in Jerusalem, according to a report in Times of Israel. In the Armon HaNatziv neighborhood, firefighting crews battled the fire inside the UN compound that burned up between four to nine cars. The fire department believes the fires were started by sparks from bonfires in a nearby […]
Rockets continue to hit Israel from Gaza.
"They located the barbecue in a grassy area, ignoring safety guidelines."
The organizers of a Thursday parade in Rome marking the World War II liberation of Italy prevented a representative from the Jewish Brigade group from speaking at the commemorative ceremony. A group of Jews and others marched under the Israeli flag and a banner of the Jewish Brigade that fought the Nazis in Italy. The […]
A Catholic monastery and convent near Bethlehem lost a seven-year legal battle against the building of Israel's security fence on its land. The Society of St. Yves, a Catholic group that argued the case on the monastery's behalf, said an Israeli appeals court had endorsed a plan to expand the barrier Israel had built in […]
Dustin Hoffman is giving an award to the maker of a documentary which, according to an IDF membership group, "was edited, clip after clip, shot after shot, to the point where it has no connection to reality," in order to make Israelis look bad. The organization hosting the award ceremony is the Muslim Public Affairs Council.
After a Thursday meeting that lasted almost three hours, with the Health Minister, MKs Moshe Feiglin (Likud) and Tamar Zandberg (Meretz) issued the following joint statement: "Today, a meeting was conducted on the cannabis issue at the Health Minister's office, initiated by MK Moshe Feiglin and MK Tamar Zandberg. "No decisions were made at the […]
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A small, rightist British party suspended one of its local representatives over reports she posted antisemitic comments online. Anna-Marie Crampton of the U.K. Independence Party in East Sussex was dropped as a candidate in Thursday's election for the council of the town of Crowborough south of London because of comments on Jews made on her […]
RAJE is proud to honor the emerging young philanthropists of the newly formed RAJE Young Leadership Board Russian American Jewish Experience (RAJE) invites you to join the Russian Jewish community of New York at its annual dinner as they present Ambassador Ido Aharoni with a Builder of Israel Award and Shalom TV and RTN CEO […]
Rabbi Avraham Sherman could be charged with fraud, breach of trust, obstruction of justice, and abuse of office.
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Supermodel Kate Upton will not go to the prom with a Jewish day school student from Los Angeles, after indicating that she might attend (Jewish Teen Asks Kate Upton to Prom over You Tube, Gets a Maybe). Jake Davidson told the Los Angeles Jewish Journal Wednesday that Upton would not attend prom with him, presumably […]
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Singer Neil Diamond will donate royalties from his hit song "Sweet Caroline" to help victims of the Boston Marathon bombing. The song, which has become the unofficial anthem of healing for the city of Boston in the wake of the attacks, has been played during the eighth inning of every Boston Red Sox home game […]
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Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, the rabbi of the Western Wall, said rabbis must weigh whether to oppose a compromise proposal over egalitarian prayer at Judaism's holiest site. In a statement Thursday, Rabinowitz vowed to fight against "the slightest deviation" from customary practice at the Western Wall. However, he left unclear whether the compromise forged by Jewish […]
Avigdor Lieberman’s political future will be decided by the outcome of his bribery trail that opened Thursday. If the first day is an indication of what will come, the trail will be a three-ring circus.
There is no middle ground: if we talk about Islam as a source of terrorism, our values will be compromised and the greatest nation on Earth will crumble. The choice made is to forbid considering Islam as the motive - so that we can...what? Be taken down in a halo of smug superiority by those who exploit this latest greatest American Achilles Heel? Rubin points out, most current policy makers and opinion shapers prefer to avoid considering Islam as the motive for terrorism. The fear of short term pain is indulged, at the expense of preventing the real danger that will follow. And we are being lied to - "albeit for virtuous reasons" - by the politicians and the mainstream press.
Canadian fertilizer giant Potash Corp. has given up on its $15 billion offer to buy Israel Chemicals following strong opposition in Israel, where fears also were raised that Potash would move some local production to Jordan. Potash, which already has a 14 percent stake in Israeli Chemicals, stated that although it maintains that the proposed […]
When a presumed enemy drone is spotted on the way to enter your air space, and your Prime Minister is flying nearby, you don’t take any chances. Netanyahu’s tour in the north was halted in mid-air.
France and Britain have said it. Israel said it categorically. Assad used chemical weapons, the red line for Obama to intervene in Syria. Now the US figures out it’s true – but just a bit. So let’s wait.
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Anti-Semitic incidents in Canada rose last year by nearly four percent, continuing a 10-year-old trend that has sewn anti-Semitics acts double, according to B'nai Brith Canada's annual review. The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the country increased from 1,297 incidents in 2011, to 1,345 cases in 2012. Holocaust denial has soared. The average increase for […]
Hizbullah is playing games again – war games. It is dragging Lebanon into the Syrian war by fighting rebels. Today, the Air Force downed a drone flying towards Israel, presumably sent by Hizbullah.
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A Bedouin citizen of Israel who has been jailed in Egypt for 12 years went on a hunger strike. Ouda Tarabin has been imprisoned on charges of spying. He was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in jail in 2001. Tarabin said in a letter to Israel's ambassador to Cairo that Israel was "violating its […]
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A new report claims that professor and rabbi Michael Broyde may have created a second fake persona to engage in online discourse. Broyde, who admitted earlier this month to publishing letters in journals and gaining access to a rabbinic association under a fake name, may also have used a second fake persona, according to a […]
Peres, the pope and the word “peace’" are virtually interchangeable. All three of them get together next week to try to resurrect the peace process. And don’t forget Kerry is a Catholic more or less.
Americans have opened their hearts and wallets one week after the Boston marathon terrorist attack and have donated more than $21 million for the victims. Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino announced last week the creation of The One Fund Boston, which Fox News said has raised $15 million from corporations and […]
The Times ain’t what it used to be. First of all, the newspaper has its first woman executive editor, a Jew. Secondly, her editors consider her difficult. Thirdly, it is making less and less money.
On Monday, the weekly Canadian Jewish News (CJN) told subscribers in an online note that it would cease publishing a weekly newspaper in Toronto and Montreal, The Globe and Mail reported. CJN president Donald Carr said he hopes to re-launch a digital-only publication – but at this point the website operates at a 1994 Internet […]
The fact that three men were brutally murdered on September 11, in murders which remain unsolved but in which the victims have now been connected to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, cannot be ignored.
The Armenian Genocide, also known as the Armenian Holocaust, the Armenian Massacres and, among Armenians, the Great Crime was the Ottoman government's systematic uprooting and extermination of its minority Armenian population from their historic homeland in Turkey. Those tragic events took place during and after World War I, in two phases: the wholesale killing and […]
An Israeli Bedouin serving a life prison sentence in Egypt on charges of being a spy has begun a hunger strike to draw attention to his plight, the Egyptian Ahram website reported. Ouda Trabin was sentenced in 2000 on charges of espionage. Voice of Israel public radio aired on Wednesday a letter he sent to […]
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Lithuanian police said they discovered Nazi slogans drawn on a former concentration camp after Adolf Hitler’s birth date. The slogans "Heil Hitler," “Jews out” in German and a swastika were scrawled on the pavement near the HKP 562 labor camp in Vilnius, Evelina Pagounis of the Vilnius police told the French news agency AFP. The […]
An IDF soldiers was wounded in the head by a rock-throwing Palestinian Authority terrorists Wednesday afternoon and is being treated in an Israeli hospital for light to moderate wounds. Arabs attacks soldiers in the Tulkarem area, approximately less than 10 miles east of Netanya.
If Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid has any hopes of gaining one or even two Haredim as his fans, his deputy Finance Minister blew it “on air” when he called Haredim “parasites” on a Haredi radio program.
The Chief Rabbinate of Israel has sent a letter of support to Berlin Chabad Rabbi Yehudah Teichtal, who was charged by an anti-circumcision activist for practicing the ritual of oral suction of a small amount of blood at a circumcision. The practice is widely accepted in Israel but caused controversy in the New York area […]
With the end of the Israeli airlines strike and the finalization of the Open Skies agreement with the EU, Alex Herman, Inbal Hotel VP of Sales & Marketing sent out a statement saying, “We welcome the ending of the strike and the return of the tourism industry back to normal.” According to Herman, the Open […]
JERUSALEM – During his first visit to Israel as President Obama’s new secretary of defense, Chuck Hagel said Tuesday it was vital for the U.S. and Israel to maintain a strong alliance, particularly in the wake of growing security challenges.
A Palestinian Authority rock-throwing terrorist was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences and another 58-year sentence for the murders of an Israeli man and his infant son ear Kiryat Arba two years ago. Waal al-Araja, whose wages as a PA security officer are partly paid for by American and European Union aid, was sentenced Tuesday […]
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The Polish government has drafted regulations to reduce animals’ suffering but still allow ritual slaughter. In a statement Tuesday, Polish Prime Minster Donald Tusk said the new regulations, which must be passed in parliament, may require the introduction of rotating cages in which the animal is placed before its throat is cut, according to a […]
The man arrested and charged last week with sending ricin-laced letters to several officials, including President Barack Obama, was released Tuesday and all charges were dropped.
The following press release came in from the State dept.: As summer approaches, the Department of State would like to remind families to check the expiration dates on their passports. Passports issued to minors under 16 are only valid for five (5) years rather than the regular ten (10) years for adults. Some countries require […]
The US is darned lucky. It deserves worse terror than the Boston bombing. And the root cause is the US backing Israel. Is that Iran talking? No. Just Richard Falk, the UN’s great god of human rights.
Obama has said he would use force in Syria if it used chemical weapons. No wonder Kerry denies Israeli intel that Assad used nerve gas. And didn’t the US once reject Israel’s info on Iran’s nuke work?
It looks like it’s kosher, and the certification says it’s kosher, but it smells and tastes “treif.” Kosher foods that taste like non-kosher food are widely accepted in the US, but not in Manchester, England.
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has won a 10-15 year contract potentially worth $2.5 billion to build the wings for the F-35 stealth bomber, which is due to arrive in Israel in 2016. IAI and Lockheed Martin have begun setting up the production line for the F-35's wings at an Israeli facility, the Israeli business website […]
The IDF arrested on Monday a Palestinian Authority Arab from a family affiliated with Hamas after he was spotted taking pictures of a Jewish community located between Hevron and Arad, the Jewish Press has learned. Sources said that the Arab is part of a clan that lives next door to the community of Beit Yatir, […]
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Defending Israel’s legitimacy is a “huge part” of her work as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice told a Reform Judaism event Sunday evening. “It’s a huge part of my work to the United Nations,” she said at the launching of this year’s social activists’ Consultation on Conscience, organized by the Religious Action […]
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