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Benzion Netanyahu’s role in U.S. politics
Benzion Netanyahu’s role in U.S. politics
Biggest federation trip to Israel in years brings more than 700 from Miami
By Uriel Heilman Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) — From afar it appeared to be a luminescent snake, twinkling in the dusk that was just beginning to cloak the desert mountains framing the Dead Sea. Upon closer inspection it turned out to be hundreds of Jews from South Florida bearing glow sticks making their way down [ Read More...]
With Israel trip, Christie eyes an expanded national scope
By Ben Sales Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, fresh off his first trip to Israel, has the attention of some key Jewish Republicans. Fred Zeidman, a major Jewish donor to the campaign of presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, says he hopes the trip leads Christie to seek national office. [ Read More...]
For Murray Koppelman, a distasteful Tehran scene inspires a gift to New Israel Fund
By Ron Kampeas Jewish Telegraphic Agency WASHINGTON (JTA) — Murray Koppelman saw women pushed onto the back of a bus in Tehran and had a nightmare about Israel’s future. Koppelman, a well-known philanthropist in New York, is behind a New Israel Fund pledge drive to combat discrimination against women in Israel. He will match every [ Read More...]
From planting to blessings, Boulder gets into Jewish food movement
By Dvora Meyers Jewish Telegraphic Agency BOULDER, Colo. (JTA) — The new Jewish food movement arose here organically, so to speak. No large federation or organization swooped in to make sustainable farming and eating within a Jewish framework a priority. Yet in this city of 100,000 — some 13,000 residents are Jewish — “green” has [ Read More...]
Jewish groups rethinking vouchers, tax credits to religious schools
By Shira Schoenberg Jewish Telegraphic Agency BOSTON (JTA) — When the U.S. Supreme Court effectively legalized school vouchers in 2002, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs called it “a devastating blow to one of the foundations of our democracy”: the separation of church and state. Four years earlier, JCPA had conducted a yearlong study that [ Read More...]
Scion of Azrieli family goes from opera to cantor, and back
By Alexandra Halpern Jewish Telegraphic Agency NEW YORK (JTA) — When Sharon Azrieli-Perez told her father — David Azrieli, one of Israel’s biggest real estate moguls — that she wanted to be an opera singer, he told her he’d pay for voice lessons only if she got into Juilliard. That was all the motivation she [ Read More...]
With election months away, bids among Dems for top House committee spots already underway
By Ron Kampeas Jewish Telegraphic Agency WASHINGTON (JTA) – Amid the election season tumult, behind-the-scenes campaigns are also underway for who will be the next top Democrats on two key congressional committees — with Jewish lawmakers in the running for both leadership slots. Two veteran congresswomen, Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) and Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), [ Read More...]
Romney’s triumph smooths sharp edges of GOP Middle East policy rhetoric
By Ron Kampeas Jewish Telegraphic Agency WASHINGTON (JTA) – The Republican primaries are effectively over, and gone with them is the sharp-edged rhetoric and departures from past U.S. policy on the Middle East. Gone is Rick Santorum’s pledge to strike Iran and his suggestion that West Bank Palestinians should be referred to as Israelis. Gone [ Read More...]
Virginia Tech hoops coach Greenberg ready to coach U.S. Maccabiah team
By Mike Stoller JointMedia News Service He’s already been inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, but don’t tell Virginia Tech men’s basketball coach Seth Greenberg that his Jewish sports legacy is complete. Greenberg was recently appointed as head coach for the U.S. Maccabiah Games men’s basketball team. The 19th Maccabiah Games will [ Read More...]
