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Israel News Israel’s Government Is Right-Wing. But It’s Taking Climate Change Seriously.
(JTA) — One of Israel’s strongest condemnations of Donald Trump wasn’t about the peace process. It didn’t concern Trump’s broken promise to relocate the U.S. embassy, or his reported leak of Israeli intelligence. It was about climate change. After President Trump announced the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris accords, the landmark 2015 agreement to…
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Community The Jewish Case Against Donald Trump’s Paris Climate Decision
Dear President Trump, As the Jewish festival of Shavuot came to a close, you announced the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord. While you have spoken of your intention to withdraw since you entered the campaign for president, the timing of your announcement highlights how the decision is at odds with the values that…
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Fast Forward Lloyd Blankfein Takes To Twitter — For First Time — To Protest Paris Pullout
President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Accord has driven even reluctant Twitterer Lloyd Blankfein to the platform for the first time since he joined — or his assistant joined him — in 2011. Today’s decision is a setback for the environment and for the U.S.’s leadership position in the world. #ParisAgreement…
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Breaking News Israeli Minister, Goldman Sachs CEO Criticize Trump’s Pullout From Paris Accords
(JTA) — Israel’s energy minister and the CEO of Goldman Sachs joined the chorus of critics who condemned President Donald Trump’s decision to exit the Paris climate deal. Minister Yuval Steinitz criticized the move implicitly. “Even if there is a 50-percent chance that climate change and global warming is man-made, we must act to reduce risk,”…
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Opinion This Is The Way The World Ends
With the U.S. leaving the Paris Climate Agreement, a cartoonist envisions what happens next.
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Breaking News Trump Slammed By Jews For Pulling Out Of Paris Climate Accord
(JTA) — President Donald Trump on Thursday said he will withdraw the United States from the landmark 2015 global agreement to fight climate change, earning statements of dismay from critics, including liberal Jewish groups, who regard the pullout as a diplomatic and environmental disaster. Speaking Thursday at ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, Trump said…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Urge Trump To Stay In Paris Climate Change Agreement
NEW YORK (JTA) — Three Jewish groups called on President Trump to keep the United States as a signatory in the United Nations’ Paris climate change agreement. The Union for Reform Judaism, the American Jewish World Service and the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life joined 20 other religious groups in urging Trump to…
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Opinion The Global Climate Forecast: Apocalyptic
This past weekend we stared down the Apocalypse. It’s not yet clear which side came out ahead, but we’re still breathing, which is pretty good. In France, the first round of the two-part presidential election ended with first place going to the only plausible candidate in the 11-person field. The first-place winner, banker Emmanuel Macron,…
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