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Fast Forward Left-Wing Groups Slam Trump For Refusing To Promote Two-State Solution
A brief hopeful moment in which President Trump was seen as the Middle East’s unlikely peace broker has ended for dovish Israel-focused organizations now that the administration has made clear it does not intend to embrace the two-state solution. In advance of American negotiators arriving in the region, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert refused to…
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Fast Forward J Street Hires Former Obama Official As Political Director
(JTA) — J Street has hired a former senior Obama administration official to serve as its national political director. Aaron Davis worked for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, in its Congressional Affairs Division for five years. The liberal Jewish Middle East lobby announced the hiring on Tuesday. Davis will oversee JStreetPAC’s efforts to…
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Community Trump Has Replaced Israel As Our Favorite Thing To Worry (And Fight) About
For decades, certainly since the Six Day War fifty years ago, Israel has been the one subject committed Jews could not avoid when they got together. Nor did they want to. First there was the 1967 victory which, at the time, seemed like a glorious turn in Jewish fortunes. For once, the Jews prevailed and…
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Community Sorry, Netanyahu: The Diaspora Won’t Take This Betrayal Lying Down
On the morning of July 12, I read a piece in the Opinion Page of the New York Times titled “Israel to American Jews: You Just Don’t Matter” by Thomas L. Friedman. In this piece, Friedman states that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu has yielded to the whims of the Orthodox and has basically…
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Fast Forward U.S. Amb. Friedman Meets With J Street, Which He Once Called ‘Worse Than Kapos’
United States Ambassador to Israel David Friedman met with a delegation organized by the left-wing organization J Street on Monday, despite having previously called the dovish group “worse than kapos” — the Jews who assisted the Nazis during the Holocaust. The delegation included seven Democratic congressmen and J Street’s senior leadership. Friedman had vowed at…
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Fast Forward Jewish Republicans Dance On Jon Ossoff’s Grave — Gloat At J Street Loss
Now that Georgia’s dramatic special election is over, it’s time for Jewish groups to fight over bragging rights. The Republican Jewish Coalition, which backed GOP candidate Karen Handel to the tune of $50,000, celebrated the victory with a fundraising email blast urging supporters to donate now, because “as the GA-6 election showed, Republican turn-out is…
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News J Street Founder With Famous Name Launches Bid For Wisconsin Congress Seat
Wisconsin’s 6th Congressional district has been sending Republicans to Congress for decades. But Dan Kohl, a Jewish Democrat who was among the founding members of J Street, believes he can flip the district from red to blue. Kohl, whose uncle Herb Kohl represented Wisconsin in the U.S. Senate for four terms, is among the first…
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Breaking News Sara Ehrman, ‘Doyenne of Jewish Democrats,’ Dies At 98
Sara Ehrman, a political trailblazer who served for decades as a leader of Jewish and pro-Israel groups and also played a crucial role in the life of a young Hillary Rodham Clinton, died on Saturday in Washington, D.C. at the age of 98. Born April 24, 1919 — the year before American women were given…
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