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Fast Forward Ted Cruz Slams Palestinians Over Collapse of Peace Talks
Sen. Ted Cruz in Israel said the Palestinian Authority’s refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state caused the latest round of peace negotiations to fail. On a two-day visit, Cruz (R-Texas) said in an interview with The Jerusalem Post that the United States should not dictate terms to Israel, including on settlement building in…
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Israel News Rand Paul Hones Pro-Israel Pitch, But Finds Jewish Leaders Wary
(JTA) — Can Rand Paul woo his party’s Jews? The Kentucky senator and likely candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination is stepping up his Jewish outreach. In recent weeks, Paul chatted with rabbis on a conference call and proposed legislation to cut funding to the Palestinian Authority unless it recognizes Israel as a Jewish…
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Fast Forward J Street-Backed GOP Incumbent Walter Jones Survives N.C. Primary
An incumbent Republican North Carolina congressman backed by J Street defeated a primary challenger who had been backed by pro-Israel conservatives. Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.) beat back a challenge by Taylor Griffin, a former George W. Bush administration official, in the primary Tuesday. J Street, a liberal Jewish Middle East policy group, backed Jones in…
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Fast Forward Eric Cantor Visits Shul in Shanghai
Rep. Eric Cantor, the House of Representatives majority leader, visited a synagogue in China on the same day he appealed for more religious freedoms in the country. Cantor (R-Va.), the most senior Jewish official in the U.S. government and the sole Republican Jewish member of the Congress, toured Ohel Rachel in Shanghai and spoke with…
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Fast Forward Dick Cheney Warns of Isolationism in GOP
Dick Cheney told Republican Jews that he was concerned about isolationism in the party. “One of the things that concerns me first about the campaign” for the 2016 GOP presidential nod “is that I’m worried about what I sense to be an increasing strain of isolationism, if I can put it in those terms, in…
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Israel News Jewish Republicans Focus on Israel at ‘Sheldon Adelson Primary’ in Las Vegas
The GOP Jewish faithful descended in force on Sin City, turning out in record numbers and striking a feisty, combative tone at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual conference. According to organizers, some 400 people attended the gathering, where they were feted with poker and golf tournaments, and wooed by presidential hopefuls. “In Jewish crowds, I’m…
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Fast Forward James Schlesinger, Who Served 3 U.S. Presidents, Dies at 85
James Schlesinger, who served three U.S. presidents, Republican and Democrat alike, in the top posts at the Central Intelligence Agency, Pentagon and Energy Department in the 1970s, died on Thursday at age 85. A serious thinker on national security and an executive determined to get things done, Schlesinger headed the CIA and the Defense Department…
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Fast Forward Sheldon Adelson Uses Political Muscle To Push for Ban on Online Gambling
Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson became a major player in Republican politics in the 2012 elections, when he spent more than $90 million in an unsuccessful effort to oust Democratic President Barack Obama. Now the 80-year-old billionaire wants something from Washington: a ban on internet gambling, a growing industry that Adelson says could hurt the casino…
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