Sequester cuts White House Jewish heritage reception
Jewish Journal
April 4, 2013
The White House will not hold a Jewish History Month event this year because of the sequester.
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Sequester cuts to Israel expected to be $155 million
Jewish Journal
March 5, 2013
The sequester is expected to cost Israel $155 million in defense assistance.
At AIPAC confab, sequester looms large
Jewish Journal
March 5, 2013
Imminent threats threading through the rhetoric at AIPAC conferences is hardly new, but this year’s alarm raising had a unique wrinkle: In addition to the prospect of a nuclear Iran, the other danger AIPAC targeted was domestic — sequestration.
Hagel to meet Israeli counterpart Ehud Barak in D.C.
Jewish Journal
March 3, 2013
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak is scheduled to be the first foreign defense minister to meet with newly confirmed U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
A gridlock bypass in Congress?
Raphael J. Sonenshein
February 27, 2013
A remarkable thing happened in Washington, D.C., last week. National leaders of business and labor hammered out an outline on immigration reform. This might not only give a major boost to a new immigration policy; it might also show a path around the gridlock that has driven the nation into budgetary face-offs month after month.
Just say no: Sequestration hurts families
Jewish Journal
February 25, 2013
The sequester principle — that a sword of Damocles hanging over Congress and the White House would produce good public policy that reasoned debate could not — never made any sense.
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