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Life This 25-Year-Old Sustainability Superstar is Shooting for Congress
Environmental advocacy pioneer Erin Schrode started her community involvement as a 13-year-old, when she co-founded nonprofit Teens Turning Green after discovering that many commonplace cosmetics contain cancerous and other harmful ingredients. Her work earned her wide recognition — CNN named her one of the “leading lights in the environmental movement,” and the White House featured…
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Breaking News Ben Rhodes Won’t Testify to Congress on Iran Deal Push
The White House confirmed on Monday that Ben Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser, would not testify at a House oversight panel on Iran on Tuesday. The panel had asked Rhodes to appear after a New York Times article had suggested that he had manipulated the public debate over the Iran deal.
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News Iran Deal Feud Looms Over Chicago Congressional Battle
The aftershocks of the Iran nuclear deal, which tore the American Jewish community in two last summer, still ripple politically amid the tranquil, willow-lined boulevards of Chicago’s upscale northwest suburbs. Two Jewish candidates for Congress with almost identical political profiles — except for their positions on the Iran deal — are running against each other…
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News Jews Unite To Defend Policy on Syrian Refugees — With a Few Exceptions
On the face of it, Morton Klein would seem to embody everything that has driven most Jewish communal organizations to oppose the current call to stop admitting refugees from Syria into America. Klein, who leads the right-wing Zionist Organization of America, was born in a displaced persons’ camp in Germany after World War II. He…
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Breaking News House Votes To Block Syrian Refugees — Some Jews Join GOP Majority
The U.S. House of Representatives, defying a veto threat by President Barack Obama, overwhelmingly passed Republican-backed legislation on Thursday to suspend Obama’s program to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees in the next year and then intensify the process of screening them. The measure, quickly drafted this week following the Islamic State attacks in Paris on Friday…
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Breaking News John Boehner, Republican Who Played Key Role in Israel Feud, Quits as House Speaker
Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, the speaker of the House of Representatives, who played a key role in this year’s United States-Israel crisis, is stepping down. Boehner’s resignation, confirmed by colleagues on Friday, comes as he is under increasing pressure within his Republican caucus to reconcile moderates, who are ready to compromise with the Obama administration…
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Breaking News Did Pope Francis and Benjamin Netanyahu Agree on Moses?
(JTA) — The marble visages of 23 historic lawgivers overlook the U.S. House of Representatives chamber: 11 on the east side, 11 on the west and Moses in the center — with all 22 others facing north toward him. In addresses to joint sessions of Congress this year, two speakers have gestured toward the relief…
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Breaking News Senate Democrats Block Last Gasp GOP Move on Iran
Senate Democrats on Thursday blocked legislation meant to kill the Iran nuclear deal for a third time, securing perhaps the greatest foreign policy win of President Barack Obama’s six years in office and clearing the way to implement the accord. By a 56-42 vote, the Republican-majority Senate fell short of the 60 votes needed to…
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