WASHINGTON (JTA) — Four Jewish Democrats kept or earned top slots on U.S. House of Representatives committees. Rep. Sander Levin (D-MI) preserved his top slot on the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, as did Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) on the...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — An amendment that would have penalized Palestinians for seeking non-member state status at the United Nations was not included in a defense bill that was passed by the U.S. Senate. The National Defense Authorization Act, which was...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rahm Emanuel said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu betrayed the Obama administration by announcing a new settlement expansion and the cutoff of tax transfers to the Palestinian Authority. Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago and President Obama’s chief...
ARLINGTON, VA. (JTA) — The Obama administration will seek additional funding for Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile program in the wake of its successes in the most recent Israel-Hamas war. “This spring, we announced that we would provide $70 million in...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The security arm of the Jewish federations network is intensifying training to resist cyber attacks in the wake of a wave of such attacks on synagogue websites. “In the most recent round of cyber-attacks against American Jewish...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Palestinians have missed multiple opportunities for peacemaking, but the Israelis have shown a lack of empathy, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said. “I think Israelis have good grounds to be suspicious” of Palestinians as a...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Convicted spy for Israel Jonathan Pollard was undergoing observation in a hospital after collapsing in his jail cell. Pollard collapsed Saturday at the Federal Correction Institution in Butner, N.C., after complaining of being in serious pain for several...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — How the United States treats the Palestinians’ new status as a non-member state at the United Nations depends on how Palestinians plan to use it — as cudgel or outstretched hand.
(HOLLYWOOD) – Legendary singer Stevie Wonder, recipient of 25 Grammy® Awards and an Academy Award®, has cancelled his performance at the annual Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) Western Region Gala on Thursday, December 6th. The Gala, chaired by...
(JTA) — An online petition calling on Stevie Wonder to cancel his performance at a fundraiser for the Israel Defense Forces has garnered more than 3,600 signatures. The petition was launched more than a day ago on the change.org website.
