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News Jerrold Nadler Faces Rare Primary Challenge — Just Months After Backing Iran Deal
For the first time in decades, voters on Manhattan’s West Side and in Boro Park, Brooklyn will have a choice to make in the upcoming Congressional primaries. Representative Jerry Nadler, the progressive Democrat whose district includes more Jews than any other in the House of Representatives, is facing his first challenge for the Democratic ballot…
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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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Opinion What That Ben Rhodes Profile Really Tells Us About the Iran Deal
It’s hard to know whose face was more red — White House foreign policy wunderkind Ben Rhodes or Jake Silverstein, the editor of The New York Times Magazine — in the days following publication of the magazine’s embarrassingly frank May 8 profile of Rhodes. Rhodes, the president’s deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, is…
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News Did Ben Rhodes Dupe Media (and Some Jews) Into Backing Iran Nuclear Deal?
(JTA) — As narratives go, this one was pretty straightforward. The Obama administration wanted a nuclear deal with Iran. A lot of folks, including Republicans, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, didn’t want the deal President Barack Obama wanted. Obama won. But a profile in the Sunday New York…
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Breaking News White House Aide Ben Rhodes Defends ‘Echo Chamber’ Push for Iran Nuclear Deal
The senior White House aide who spearheaded the push for the Iran nuclear deal is defending his handling of the issue after he suggested in a controversial New York Times magazine profile that he fooled key stakeholders into not questioning the pact. Ben Rhodes was forced to explain himself in a blog post for Medium…
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Breaking News U.S. Holocaust Museum Says Iranian Authorities Back Holocaust Cartoon Event
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum challenged a claim by the Iranian foreign minister that Iranian government authorities had nothing to do with a Holocaust cartoon contest. “The organizations associated with the contest are sponsored or supported by government entities, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Tehran Municipality, and the Ministry of…
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Breaking News Robert Levinson’s Son Travels to Iran Seeking Information on MIssing Father
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Driven to desperation by what he said have been the White House’s failures, Robert Levinson’s son traveled to Iran to seek information on his father’s whereabouts. “In late February, I traveled to Iran’s Kish Island in the Persian Gulf, where my father was last seen,” Dan Levinson said in an Op-Ed published…
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Breaking News AIPAC Still Insists on Iran Sanctions — Claims Mullahs Flout ‘Spirit’ of Nuclear Deal
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee opposes further sanctions relief for Iran, citing its ballistic missile tests and its continued backing for sides fighting in the region. “If Iran wants additional sanctions relief, it must first change its behavior,” the pro-Israel lobby said in an April 7 statement, accompanied by statements from members of Congress…
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