Democratic lawmakers – opponents and supporters of the Iran nuclear deal – on Wednesday called on the Obama Administration to impose punitive sanctions on Iran without delay.
We’ve all heard the fear mongering about how Syrian refugees are mostly men — which somehow makes them more susceptible to becoming terrorists, and therefore dangerous to the West.
To Republican U.S. presidential contenders, North Korea’s claim that it tested a hydrogen bomb may further make the 2016 race what they dearly want it to be: a referendum on President Barack Obama\’s foreign policy and, by extension, Hillary Clinton’s.
Israelis will now be able to stream “Orange Is the New Black” and “Breaking Bad.”
As promised, Assemblyman Travis Allen (R-Huntington Beach) has brought a bill to the California legislature that, if passed, would bar state pensions and trust funds from investing in companies that economically discriminate against Israel. It also would bar the state from entering into most contracts with such companies.
Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi, a popular Sephardic rabbi in parts of the Charedi world, said in a speech filmed years ago — but not posted online until the end of December — that the number of Jews murdered in the Holocaust is below the historically accepted number of 6 million.
Lena Dunham’s successful HBO series “Girls” will end after its sixth season.
In 2015, a film about journalists on the investigative team at the Boston Globe shone a light on abuse in the Catholic Church.
The seeds of the Southern California College Access Network (SoCal CAN), an alliance of more than 60 organizations working to support college access and completion among the region’s disadvantaged students, were planted more than a year prior to the organization’s founding in 2005, when the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation brought together roughly 30 organizations working in education for a day of discussion and learning.
A Jewish tech entrepreneur who lived out of rental cars was shot and killed in a Las Vegas parking lot.
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