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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Urge Senate To Pass Bill Targeting Burma For Persecuting Muslims
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Twenty-four Jewish groups encompassing all major religious streams urged a Senate panel to advance a bill that would penalize Burma for its treatment of its Rohingya Muslim minority. “Passing this legislation through your committee and the full Senate would send a powerful message to the Burmese military and the global community that…
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Fast Forward Congressional Candidate Paul Nehlen Reads Neo-Nazis’ ‘Favorite Academic’
Paul Nehlen, the Republican politician seeking to unseat Speaker of the House Paul Ryan from Congress in 2018, has been increasingly flirting with the online “alt-right” by posting memes and appearing on white nationalist podcasts. On Tuesday night, he proudly shared one of the books currently on his shelf: a title by an author known…
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Fast Forward GOP Tax Bill Won’t Include Repeal Of Johnson Amendment
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A decades-old ban on houses of worship directly involving themselves in elections has survived a repeal bid by House Republican leaders. In a move that no doubt will be welcomed by a broad spectrum of Jewish groups, the Senate parliamentarian ruled Thursday that the repeal effort did not belong in the tax…
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Fast Forward House Passes Bill To Protect Religious Institutions, Sparked By JCC Threats
(JTA) — The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill that increases the federal penalties for bomb threats and other credible threats of violence against religious institutions. The bill, sponsored by Reps. David Kustoff, R-Tenn., and Derek Kilmer, D-Wash., passed Monday by a vote of 402 to 2. It was co-sponsored by more than…
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Fast Forward Senate Unanimously Passes Bill To Help Holocaust Survivors Obtain Restitution
(JTA) — The Senate unanimously passed a bill to help Holocaust survivors and the families of victims obtain restitution or the return of Holocaust-era assets. The Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today, or JUST Act, which was introduced in February by Sens. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisc., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., received unanimous approval on Tuesday, The measure requires…
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Fast Forward House Passes Bill Targeting Palestinian Funding For Killers Of Israelis
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that would reduce U.S. funding for the Palestinians unless their official bodies stop subsidizing families of killers of Israelis. The Taylor Force Act, named for an American stabbed to death in Tel Aviv in 2016, passed in a voice vote, with lawmakers from…
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Fast Forward Congress Advances Bill Allowing Disaster Funds For Synagogues
(JTA) — A congressional committee has approved a bill that allows federal disaster relief funds to go to houses of worship. Thursday’s unanimous vote in the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee sends the measure to the full U.S. House of Representatives for approval. Previously, relief funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, could…
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Fast Forward Will Trump Tax Cuts Allow Rabbis To Preach Politics From The Pulpit?
The Republican tax bill that recently passed the House of Representatives contains an obscure provision that many right-wing Christian activists have been advocating for — a repeal of the Johnson Amendment, a 1954 law that prohibits churches and synagogues from engaging in political activity. Currently, pastors who endorse candidates from the pulpit could risk having…
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