Former Congress member Mel Levine is on the Executive Board of Jews United for Democracy & Justice (JUDJ), an organization formed to fight Administration policies which threaten ethical and core democratic values.
Mel Levine
By Mel Levine
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Community Jews Cannot Accept The Administration’s Destruction Of Families
Since Memorial Day weekend we have been reading the stories in newspapers across the country about children being intentionally separated from their families at the U.S. border. Hundreds of children are being detained by U.S. authorities in conditions Senator Jeff Merkley has likened to “dog kennels.” According to NBC News, over 300 of these children…
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Opinion Obama’s Promise Kept to Israel
‘I can assure you, if somebody was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I’m going to do everything in my power to stop that. And I would expect Israelis to do the same thing.” This was the vow made by then-senator Barack Obama in Sderot in 2008, after the…
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Opinion Putting Politics Above Israel
Policies that endure require bipartisan political support. And because Israel’s American supporters historically have placed its security ahead of partisan politics, Israel has enjoyed strong bipartisan backing in the United States. During the 10 years in which I served as a member of the United States Congress, I often introduced bills that were described by…
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