Before Nita Lowey died, Donald Trump eviscerated the $250M Middle East peace fund named for her
All grantees of the MEPPA fund for peace-building efforts have been cut off
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Fast Forward Nita Lowey, longtime Jewish congresswoman and Middle East peace advocate, dies at 87
Lowey was the first woman to head the House Appropriations Committee
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Fast Forward Four House Democrats Known For AIPAC Ties Warn Israel Not To Annex West Bank
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Four Jewish Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives known for their ties to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee warned Israel not to annex West Bank territory, days after Benjamin Netanyahu’s election-eve pledge to do just that. The statement by Reps. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., Ted Deutch, D-Fla. and…
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Fast Forward U.S. Jewish Lawmakers Criticize Netanyahu For Suspending Western Wall Agreement
(JTA) — Four Jewish members of Congress criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s suspension of an agreement to build a non-Orthodox prayer space at the Western Wall. Reps. Eliot Engel, Nita Lowey and Jerry Nadler of New York joined Rep. Ted Deutch of Florida in criticizing Netanyahu for reneging on the deal in a Sunday Cabinet vote. The…
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Fast Forward 55 House Democrats Urge Trump To Fire Aide Sebastian Gorka Over Far-Right Ties
(JTA) — Fifty-five Democratic lawmakers signed on to a letter urging President Donald Trump to dismiss Sebastian Gorka, an adviser accused of being a member of a Hungarian far-right nationalist group. Among the nine Congress members leading the effort, five are Jewish: Reps. Eliot Engel, Nita Lowey and Jerrold Nadler of New York, Bradley Schneider of…
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Fast Forward BREAKING: House Dems Ask Trump To Fire Gorka After Forward Exclusives
White House conter-terrorism adviser Sebastian Gorka is facing a demand from House Democrats for President Trump to fire him after reports from the Forward linked him to far-right and neo-Nazi groups in his native Hungary. “Based on recent revelations about Mr. Gorka’s public support for and membership in several anti-Semitic and racist groups in Hungary,…
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Fast Forward BREAKING: House Dems Ask Trump To Fire Gorka After Forward Exclusives
White House conter-terrorism adviser Sebastian Gorka is facing a demand from House Democrats for President Trump to fire him after reports from the Forward linked him to far-right and neo-Nazi groups in his native Hungary. “Based on recent revelations about Mr. Gorka’s public support for and membership in several anti-Semitic and racist groups in Hungary,…
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Fast Forward Can Congress Solve the Mystery of Raoul Wallenberg’s Disappearance?
It’s been 72 years since Raul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who had saved the lives of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, was last seen alive. In August, a KGB officer’s diaries were published, revealing that he was executed in 1947. And now, a group of lawmakers are asking Congress to launch another effort to…
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