Ron Kampeas (JTA)
By Ron Kampeas (JTA)
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Fast Forward U.S. Congress Passes New Iran Sanctions
Congress overwhelmingly passed expansive new Iran sanctions. The sanctions passed Thursday in both houses: 99-0 in the Senate and 408-8 in the U.S. House of Representatives, and now go to President Obama for signing. The sanctions expand existing sanctions targeting investment in Iran’s energy sector to encompass trade with the energy escort and business with…
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Fast Forward News Analysis: Jewish House Candidates Clash Over Israel
Joel Pollak has traveled from liberal to conservative in his young lifetime, and now he hopes to take Chicago’s storied Lakefront with him. The Harvard Law School graduate, 32, is running a quixotic campaign against U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), who has held the seat since 1999, winning 75 percent majorities in elections along the…
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Fast Forward Rubashkin’s Team Vows To Fight Conviction, Sentence
For years Sholom Rubashkin made his living as an executive in the country’s largest kosher meatpacking company. Now to keep him out of prison, his defense team is arguing that the judge in his financial fraud case made treif use of federal sentencing guidelines. The judge, Linda Reade, who sits on the federal bench in…
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Fast Forward On Key Issues, U.S and Israel Agree — for Now
The relationship between the Obama administration, the Netanyahu government and the pro-Israel community is ensconced on all fronts in “agree, for now” mode. On isolating Iran, everyone agrees – and is pleased – that the new set of U.N. sanctions will make it easier for the United States to enhance its own unilateral sanctions. Differences…
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News Helen Thomas Leaves Hearst After Comments About Israel
Helen Thomas quit her job with Hearst in the wake of mounting outrage over her assertion that Israeli Jews should “return” to Poland, Germany and the United States. “Helen Thomas announced Monday that she is retiring, effective immediately,” said a statement issued Monday by the Hearst Corp. “Her decision came after her controversial comments about…
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Fast Forward Obama Authorizes $205 Million for Israel’s Missile Defense System
The Obama administration authorized $205 million to allow Israel to complete its Iron Dome short-range missile defense system. “As the president has repeatedly said, our commitment to Israel’s security is unshakable and our defense relationship is stronger than ever,” a statement from the White House said. “The United States and our ally Israel share many…
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Fast Forward Elena Kagan Would Be Third Jew on Supreme Court
Elena Kagan would make it three – three women and three Jews on the U.S. Supreme Court for the first time in its history. President Obama, announcing Monday the nomination of his solicitor general to fill retiring Justice John Paul Stevens’ seat ont the Supreme Court, made one historical element of the nomination explicit; the…
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Fast Forward Kagan Is Reportedly Obama’s Choice for Supreme Court
President Obama will reportedly nominate Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court. Kagan, 50, currently the solicitor general and a former dean of Harvard Law School, is the president’s pick, NBC News reported Sunday evening. Kagan would bring the number of Jews and women on the court to three: Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg…
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