Netanyahu: Restart peace talks now
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for the immediate resumption of peace talks with the Palestinians.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for the immediate resumption of peace talks with the Palestinians.
According to a survey taken in late September by the private wealth research firm, Prince & Associates, the cuts have arrived. Fifty-one percent said they planned on giving less next year than they did this past year — and only 16 percent said they planned on giving more.
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Erika Levy and Alie Kussin-Shoptaw, seniors at New Community Jewish High School in West Hills, easily spotted in their bright orange volunteer vests, stood by the escalators at the Los Angeles Convention Center, greeting arriving United Jewish Communities General Assembly (GA) attendees and directing them to meeting rooms, halls and hospitality suites.
Perhaps it was the civilian, Karnit Goldwasser, who said it most clearly: \”There are so many powerful and important people gathered together here. Together, we must raise up our voices.\”
On Monday, the three heads of the leading Jewish seminaries tackled this question, as well as the challenges of teaching a new generation of Jews in an hourlong plenary session that stepped outside the overriding focus on Israel at the United Jewish Communities General Assembly.
The annual summit meeting of North American Jewish leaders climaxed Tuesday with an affirmation by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that \”Israel will not shy away from challenging Iran\’s development of nuclear weapons.\”
The Iran missile program calls for developing 25 nuclear weapons per year, ultimately with a range to reach the East Coast of the United States, Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu warned the annual summit meeting of North American Jewish leaders Monday afternoon. \”It\’s 1938 — and Iran is Germany,\” he repeated again and again as he addressed some 5,000 delegates attending the United Jewish Communities\’ General Assembly (UJC-GA) at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
One of Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni top priorities is to close the gap between Israel\’s militant image abroad and the reality of a vibrant, multi-faceted nation. In her address Sunday afternoon to the opening session of General Assembly (GA) of the United Jewish Communities (UJC) in Los Angeles, Livni pledged \”to invest a lot of time and money\” in a Brand Israel campaign to project the country through a human lens.
This will be the 17th year that a select group of Jewish collegians, as members of the Do the Write Thing team, will have its own prestigious place in the General Assembly.