Holocaust survivors denouncing the Jewish establishment would be a spectacle in almost any venue — all the more so when it\’s under the bright lights of a congressional hearing.
A Washington rally of liberal groups included a rabbi, a top Jewish diplomat and a shofar blower in its religious portion.
Rahm Emanuel is no longer the White House chief of staff.
Today it’s an empty one-acre lot in West Berkeley.
Josh Block, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee\’s spokesman, is leaving to start a consultancy and join a centrist Democratic think tank.
The Anti-Defamation League slammed Pink Floyd\’s Roger Waters for using what the organization says is anti-Semitic imagery.
George Soros has been a top funder in recent years of liberal political advocacy groups, and Jews have still been voting for Democrats at a 75 to 80 percent clip. J Street, meanwhile, has built relations with lawmakers, lined up support from liberal rabbis and communal leaders, and found itself on the White House invite list, even while issuing controversial criticisms of Israel and establishment Jewish groups on several occasions.
Supporters and opponents of the latest version of proposed legislation that would allow Holocaust survivors to sue World War II-era insurers in U.S. courts testified in Congress.
Two Jewish U.S. lawmakers have introduced legislation to protect students from religious discrimination.\n
Four U.S. lawmakers have initiated a letter urging President Obama to release Jonathan Pollard as a means of advancing the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
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