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…
(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…
(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…
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,…
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,…
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…
Three top Jewish Democrats in the U.S. House of representatives came out in opposition to the Iran nuclear deal. Rep. Nita Lowey, the senior Democrat on the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee, Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., the top Democrat on the House Middle East subcommittee, and Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y., who until last year…
The ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee asked the U.S. Department of Education to insure that college programs receiving federal funds not include an anti-Israel bias. In a letter sent Monday to Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), requested that standards of accountability be adopted so that any college or university receiving…
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