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chuck schumer
Trump’s Israel envoy pick David Friedman: ‘No excuse’ for past rhetoric on liberal Jews
Ron Kampeas, JTA
February 16, 2017
Jewish groups praise court for upholding stay on Trump’s travel ban
Ron Kampeas, JTA
February 10, 2017
Dear Chuck Schumer: Stop David Friedman
Jewish Journal
January 13, 2017
We represent a broad constituency of scholars of Jewish studies committed to the democratic values that gave rise to the United States of America. We are alarmed by the prospect that new administration may erode these values and are particularly troubled by a number of President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed appointments. We write you today to register our concern about Mr. David Friedman’s nomination as our country’s Ambassador to the State of Israel.
J Street cautions Schumer on Iran deal
jacobk
October 6, 2016
J Street, likely to emerge after the 2016 election as a major force within the Democratic Party, is expecting from Senator Chuck Schumer to fall in line with supporters of the Iranian nuclear deal once he assumes leadership of the Democratic Caucus in the U.S. Senate.
Schumer: ‘Condoning’ terror against Israel led to Paris attacks
Jewish Journal
November 16, 2015
The world is now paying the price of not standing up to terrorism when it was directed only at Israel, as it had witnessed the murder of 132 people in the streets of Paris Friday night, Senator Chuck Schumer said on Sunday.
Democratic senators to Kerry: respond to Iranian missile test
Jewish Journal
October 22, 2015
A group of U.S. Senators sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday in which they expressed ‘profound’ concern about the Iranian ballistic missile test last Sunday.
Bernie and me
Jewish Journal
October 13, 2015
I spent a good portion of the winter of 1981 on the snowy porches of aging wooden homes in the blue-collar, Old North End of Burlington, Vt., watching Bernie Sanders promote his outsider candidacy for mayor against an entrenched Democratic Party incumbent.
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