U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro said that the United States “would not permit Iran to be armed with a nuclear weapon.”
Democrats are returning language affirming Jerusalem as Israel\’s capital to their party platform.
Israel\’s ambassador to Washington, Michael Oren, \”categorically denied\” that he specified the Republican Party when he described as harmful making Israel a partisan issue.
John Burton, the chairman of the Democratic Party in California, apologized to those who took offense at his remarks comparing Republican statements to Nazi propaganda.
Jewish swing voters could make or break President Obama’s bid for reelection.
The California State Assembly approved a resolution calling on colleges and universities in the state to combat anti-Semitism.
A Jewish student at Michigan State University said he was attacked at an off-campus party in what he is calling a hate crime.
Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) has sponsored a bill designed to ban entry into the country by officials of any foreign government complicit in violating the rights of imprisoned Americans.
Nine young political activists have started out on an eight-state tour to push for the repeal of the Pres. George W. Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy.
The California-based Helen Diller Family Foundation has announced it will expand its Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards from a statewide to nationwide program and will double the number of annual awards to 10, with five of the awards reserved exclusively for Californians. The Foundation formally announced the expansion at an Aug. 20 ceremony in San Francisco honoring this year’s recipients, which included three Angelenos — Zak Kukoff, Adam Weinstein and Celine Yousefzadeh.
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