With Reporting by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

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  Rice Trip Raises Concern Over U.S. Pressure on Israel

  WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s unusual personal involvement this week in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations over a border crossing in Gaza has some Jewish organizations voicing concern about American pressure on Jerusalem. In what some observers are describing as an unprecedented intervention for the Bush administration, Rice served as a go-between in negotiations Monday between…

  By Ori Nir and With Reporting by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Nov 18, 2005 | 3 min read
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  Republican Activist Chosen To Be Chief UJC Lobbyist

  WASHINGTON — The country’s multi-billion-dollar network of Jewish charitable federations, an avid advocate for boosting government spending on social programs, has chosen a Republican activist to be its chief Washington lobbyist. This week the United Jewish Communities, the national roof body of local Jewish federations, tapped William Daroff, 36, to be its vice president for…

  By Ori Nir and With Reporting by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Oct 14, 2005 | 4 min read