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Family Claims American Teen Held as Jewish Extremist Is Being Tortured by Israel
Israeli security authorities are holding a 17-year-old American Jewish citizen named Elisha Odess in seclusion, where his family alleges he’s been interrogated using harsh methods that amount to torture, amid a crackdown on Jewish extremists. Odess, who was born in Israel and holds dual Israeli citizenship, “has been abused so severely that he tried committing…
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New Poll Reveals Evangelical Christians Fuel Republican Support For Israel
A new poll has revealed a powerful force behind partisan divides in public opinion on Israel: the Evangelical right. It’s generally assumed to be a political fact that Republican voters and candidates are more unilaterally supportive of Israel than their Democratic counterparts. But the poll, released by Dr. Shibley Telhami, a non-resident Senior Fellow at…
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Can Jews Back #BlackLivesMatter and Be Pro-Israel?
In less than three minutes, flanked by President Obama and Israel’s president, Reuven Rivlin, Rabbi Susan Talve distilled the sprawling interests of American Jewish liberals into a passionate manifesto while leading a White House Hanukkah menorah lighting before a bevy of communal leaders. Anti-Semitism, racism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, gun control, nuclear waste, Middle East peace,…
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Clinton, Sanders Clash Over Economy, ISIS; Lash GOP’s Trump in Dem Debate
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton backed elements of President Barack Obama’s strategy to fight Islamic State militants in a debate on Saturday in which she clashed with top rival Bernie Sanders over national security and the economy. Clinton came under fire from Republicans even before the debate was over for optimistically saying “we now finally…
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New York Yeshivas Get City Funds for Guards — at Cost of $19M
Government funded sentries will soon be guarding nonpublic schools in New York’s five boroughs, thanks to a major victory won by Orthodox Jewish advocates after a year of tough political defeats. A security guard bill passed by New York’s city council in early December is the first in the country to guarantee religious schools city…
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Sheldon Adelson Upbeat on ‘Very Charming’ Donald Trump
Top Republican Party donor Sheldon Adelson said on Friday he met presidential candidate Donald Trump earlier this week and that the two American billionaires broached the issue at the heart of Adelson’s political agenda: support for Israel. While the mega donor didn’t disclose his degree of backing for the front-runner in the race for the…
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My Evening at the PLO’s Christmas Party (No Mistletoe in Sight!)
For foreign journalists in the Holy Land, the festive season usually arrives with an interesting missive: an email invitation to the Palestine Liberation Organization’s annual Christmas dinner. The event is an opportunity for Saeb Erekat, the secretary general of the PLO, to spread Christmas cheer, toast the New Year, and make predictions about 2016 over…
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Haunting Photos Reveal Jewish Mom’s Metro-North Crash Tragedy
A trove of federal investigatory documents and eerie photos from February’s deadly collision between a New York commuter train and an SUV driven by suburban Jewish mom Ellen Brody still can’t answer why she appeared not to realize that she was in mortal danger. The National Transportation Safety Board made its file public Wednesday and…
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Poland Turns Hard to Right — and Jews Wind Up in Crosshairs
When some 50,000 people turned out in Warsaw recently to protest a plan by Poland’s ruling party to pack the nation’s constitutional court, the hard right-wing political faction responded quickly with a counter-demonstration of its own. Its counter-protest featured, among other things, a placard that mocked those claiming to defend democracy as “the committee to…
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Congress Passes Bill Targeting Hezbollah’s Finances
Legislation targeting the financing of Hezbollah passed both houses of Congress. The House of Representatives unanimously approved the Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act of 2015 on Wednesday. President Barack Obama is expected to sign it into law. The act directs the president to prohibit foreign banks from doing business with the Shiite militant group. The…
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