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The Schmooze Even Joe Biden Can’t Screw This Up
Vice President Joe Biden will assist in the lighting this year of the Hanukkah menorah on the ellipse in front of the White House. Biden’s participation on Dec. 16, the first night of the holiday, marks the 35th anniversary of the first lighting of the “National Menorah,” an event sponsored by American Friends of Lubavitch,…
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Fast Forward Joe Biden Says Iran Nuclear Talks Working
Vice President Joe Biden said on Saturday there was a “less than even shot” of a nuclear deal with Iran but that it was still worth pursuing. Biden, speaking at a forum on the Middle East at the Brookings Institution think tank, rejected calls for more sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear program because “this…
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Opinion When Israel’s Chickens Come Home to Poop
The policies of Israel’s longest-serving prime minister are starting to bear an eerie resemblance to climate change: The critics all look like a bunch of whining scaremongers prophesying an implausibly apocalyptic ruination that’s sure to come in some fuzzily distant end-time. Even if it’s true, it’s too far away to worry about. That is, until…
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Opinion Settlements, Snub Cause Latest U.S.-Israel Strain
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning a massive new wave of construction in the West Bank, according to a report Sunday night on Israel’s Channel 2 News. It’s part of a deal to calm his restive allies in the settler-backed Jewish Home party. The Channel 2 report has since been confirmed independently by Haaretz,…
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Fast Forward Joe Biden Sorry for Calling Unscrupulous Lenders ‘Shylock’
Vice President Joe Biden acknowledged that he made a “poor choice of words” in using the term “Shylock” to describe unscrupulous lenders. Biden was reacting Wednesday to remarks by Abraham Foxman, the Anti-Defamation League’s national director, in response to the vice president’s use of the term this week. Speaking to the Legal Services Organization, a…
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Fast Forward Obama Names Envoy to Ailing Holocaust Survivor Community
The Obama administration named a special envoy to the Holocaust survivor community. Aviva Sufian, a staff member at the Health Department’s Administration for Community Living, will be the “Special Envoy for U.S. Holocaust Survivor Services,” a White House announcement said Friday. “Her work as Special Envoy will focus on those survivors currently living in poverty,…
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Fast Forward Vice President Biden Holds Talks With Netanyahu After Sharon Funeral
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres following the funeral for Ariel Sharon. Biden and Netanyahu held a private dinner Monday evening following a meeting that included U.S. and Israeli officials. The leaders did not speak to reporters before the meeting and no statement was issued…
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Fast Forward Biden To Meet With Netanyahu During Visit for Sharon’s Funeral
Vice President Joe Biden will hold talks with Israeli leaders during a visit to the Jewish state as head of a U.S. delegation to former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s funeral on Monday, Biden’s office said. Biden’s meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be a chance for the vice president to try to further…
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