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The survey, conducted annually, is based on telephone interviews carried out during the month of August with a national sample of 1,000 Jews over age 18. Questions included topics such as respondents' political stances, their level of satisfaction with the new US administration, antisemitism, US-Israel relations, Jewish identity, and religious pluralism in Israel. Of the respondents, 9% were Orthodox Jews, 16% Conservatives, 2% Reconstructionists, 31% Reform Jews and 39% considered themselves "just Jewish."
Over a million children in Gaza are living in impoverished circumstances due to electricity shortages, causing problems for public health and education, warned Save the Children on Tuesday. The international NGO says Israel's ongoing land, air and sea blockade of Gaza, which has been in place since 2007, is the primary cause of the electricity shortages.
After the horrific attacks in Barcelona, the city's chief rabbi said that there was no future for the Jews there. The next day, the leader of the Jewish community in that same city rebuked the rabbi and asserted that Jewish life in Barcelona was thriving, that Jews were not afraid and would not be driven from their homes by fear stoked by Islamic fanatics.
The leftwing J Street's Director of Communications has written a breathtakingly inaccurate and careless screed against ZOA , falsely claiming we are an "ultra partisan" group advocating for Trump which refuses to criticize him. Yet, your own newspaper's Nathan Guttman verified this as a phony allegation by writing on May 15 an article entitled " Is Trump Losing Morton Klein " stating that Klein criticized Trump by saying "Trump will have to explain all these hostile statements toward Israel."
The Jerusalem Post today reports a growing tendency among key United States congressman to look beyond the accustomed two-state solution for a Middle East peace model. The US-Israel Education Association , a pro-Israel Christian organization that among other activities sponsors tours of US Congressman to Israel, completed Saturday night a week-long fact-finding mission that included five Congressmen and one Senator.
Police work near the scene where French soliders were hit and injured by a vehicle in the western Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret, France. In November 2015, the European Union issued guide- lines for labeling products made on land Europe considers occupied by Israel.
Even before Monday afternoon's solar eclipse we experienced another eclipse: "a loss of significance, power, or prominence" in the White House. It is as if the heavens wanted to emphasize what our television screens and newspaper headlines have been telling us for weeks.
Egypt's president and foreign minister met with White House adviser Jared Kushner hours after the Trump administration cut or delayed hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Cairo over human rights concerns. Kushner, who is also President Donald Trump's son-in-law, was in Cairo as part of a Middle East tour aimed at exploring ways to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
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Arthur J. Finkelstein, a longtime GOP pollster and strategist credited with helping elect Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, has died at age 72 of lung cancer, his family says. Finkelstein, considered less flamboyant but arguably more influential than better known Republican strategists, such as Lee Atwater and Roger Ailes, is widely regarded as the man responsible for turning the word "liberal" into a pejorative to be wielded against Democrats.
The White House announced Saturday that President Donald Trump and Melania Trump have decided to skip the annual weekend celebrations of the Kennedy Center honors. "The President and First Lady have decided not to participate in this year's activities to allow the honorees to celebrate without any political distraction," a statement from the White House read.
In this May 22, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after making a joint statement in Jerusalem. Israel's prime minister is coming under growing criticism for his relative silence over President Donald Trump's response to the racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Benjamin Louis Cardin Federal anti-BDS legislation - Common sense and constitutional Top Dem: Privatizing Afghanistan War would be 'affront' to US troops Open record laws should apply to private prisons, too MORE Rob Portman The fight to protect the Affordable Care Act isn't over GOP senators rally to McConnell's defense amid Trump attacks Sex trafficking bill would make the internet a wasteland MORE of Ohio introduced a bill in the Senate, the " Israel Anti-Boycott Act ." A similar bill was placed before the House of Representatives.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under growing legal pressure as investigators appear to be focusing on his role in a series of high-profile cases, which a national court said could result in corruption charges. Netanyahu had been question under caution by police over Case 1,000, dealing with gifts given to the Israeli leader and his family by businessmen, and Case 2,000, related to conversations he had with the publisher of one of Israel's largest newspapers, Yedioth Ahronoth, for positive coverage.
While the Democrats are pushing some narrative of Russian interference in American elections to ease the pain of their surprising loss of the anointed Hillary Rodham Clinton, a top Democrat is blatantly butting in um, advising another country on its upcoming election, according to the New York Times. The former president, who has largely stayed out of American politics, said there had been "too much incitement" in the election in his father's home country.
Israeli illegal settlement activities in Occupied Palestine have skyrocketed in recent months, almost tripling in 2017 compared to the number in the same period last year, according to a newly published report from the Palestinian National Office for the Defense of Land and Resistance of Settlement. The report reveals the striking extent to which occupation authorities under Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have escalated support to Israeli settlements - which are considered illegal under international law and even Israeli law - while allowing the expansion of illicit settlements built on privately-owned Palestinian land, which is considered unconstitutional by the occupation authority's courts.
Those who celebrate the psychedelic sounds of classic rock icons Pink Floyd may not associate them with turmoil in the Middle East. But Roger Waters, a founder of the band and writer of hits such as "Another Brick in the Wall," is being criticized for anti-Israel rhetoric ahead of two shows at Verizon Center in Washington, D.C., this weekend.
A member special French RAID forces secures the area for the visit by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket January 12, 2015 near the Porte de Vincennes in Paris, where four hostages were killed in a terror attack on Friday. Jewish schools and synagogues in France have been promised extra protection, by the army if necessary, after killings by Islamic militants in Paris, the head of the community's umbrella group said on Sunday after a meeting with the French President.
There is a Senate bill, along with a companion bill in the House, working its way through Congress with strong bipartisan support, that poses a significant danger to free speech. One would think this bill would be a big deal but, surprisingly, the bill has not received much coverage in the mainstream media.
Israel's military has sent more troops to the West Bank and placed forces on high alert a day after a Palestinian stabbed to death three m... A generation later, OJ Simpson's racial symbolism is now largely a relic as black Americans wrestle with more familiar injustices. Minneapolis police chief says she wants to let 'fresh set of leadership eyes' be in charge of department, resigns amid criticism over shooting of Australian woman who had called 911.