Writing a column protesting the hypocrisy of the United Nations is not really fair. It’s like a turkey shoot. The evidence is so overwhelming that the U.N. is viciously biased against Israel — and ridiculously biased in favor of the Palestinians — that you’re tempted to just move on to a less depressing subject.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to turn down Washington\’s request to withdraw a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding Israel halt settlement expansion on occupied land.
Voters in three Boston-area districts backed a nonbinding resolution supporting Palestinian rights in Israel.
When Lorin Fife converted to Judaism some 30 years ago, his experience with the Orthodox rabbis who presided over his year of study and conversion ceremony was one of warmth and acceptance.
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Last week, delegates to the Presbyterian Church USA\’s (PCUSA) General Assembly in Birmingham, Ala., voted to undo their hateful 2004 anti-Israel divestment resolution.
Local leaders of the Green Party are working to overturn an anti-Israel resolution that has become official party policy.
The Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), the largest body of religious Jews in the nation, has forcefully come out against the \”politicization\” of science at a time when the issue is boiling over in state legislatures, churches and classrooms
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