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U.S. Jewish magazine honors Goldstone for ‘upholding Jewish values’

The U.S.-based Jewish progressive magazine Tikkun has opted to give its annual prize to Judge Richard Goldstone for upholding what the publication called the “best ethical” Jewish values.Goldstone was the author of a damning United Nations report which accused Israel of committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip during its three-week war with Hamas in late 2008 and early 2009.Read ...

US Jewish leaders on 1st visit to Greece

An association of American Jewish community leaders began Tuesday a first-ever visit to Greece in the latest demonstration of Greek efforts to improve relations with Israel, officials said.Around 60 representatives of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations were to visit Athens and Thessaloniki for talks with Greek state and Jewish community officials, a Thessaloniki community leader said.“This ...

US Jewish Leaders: EU Hezbollah Stance a Mistake

The leadership of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations visiting Israel on their annual mission expressed “deep disappointment” on Tuesday with the European Union for not listing Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, following the Bulgarian government report blaming the Islamist terrorist militia for last July’s Burgas airport bombing in 2012.“We’re very disappointed that the Europeans have not expressed ...

US Jewish groups split over pledge for unity on Israel

A National Pledge for Unity on Israel issued jointly on Monday by the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee has created a backlash, with some Jewish organizations refusing to sign it.The pledge, meant “to encourage other national organizations, elected officials, religious leaders, community groups and individuals to rally around bipartisan support for Israel while preventing the Jewish state from ...

US Jewish chaplains to get new memorial

A memorial commemorating US Jewish chaplains who died in battle will be erected at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, Congress decided on Thursday night.“This memorial will be a fitting commemoration of 13 chaplains who have made the ultimate sacrifice for their nation,” bill sponsor Sen. Charles Schumer said.“Every day, military chaplains risk their own safety and security to provide ...

US Holocaust envoy: Shoah is an ‘American issue’

It wasn’t the kind of remark you’d expect to hear from a German-born Jew who as a teenager had to flee Nazi Germany to America, but earlier this week former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger was in the news for something he said in private to president Richard Nixon 37 years ago.“If they put Jews into gas chambers in ...

US: Hizbullah Has One of World’s Largest Missile Arsenals

Syria is helping Hizbullah stockpile “far more rockets and missiles than most governments in the world,” U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday at a joint press conference with visiting Defense Minister Ehud Barak.Read More: @ israelnationalnews.comYou might also like:Ehud Barak: History Will Judge Obama on Nuclear IranNetanyahu to Testify in Flotilla Clash ProbeRussia says may sell more arms to SyriaEmbargo ...

U.S. has no right to sanction a peaceful nuclear program

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the United States of hypocrisy during a visit to the World Expo in Shanghai on Friday, two days after host China yielded to international pressure to back new nuclear sanctions against Tehran. “How can they have the right to impose pressure on other countries who are willing to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes?”Read More: @ ...

US Gymnast: ‘Special’ to Win on Munich Anniversary

Jewish-American gymnast Aly Raisman expressed her support for a moment of silence at the Olympics for the Israelis killed at the 1972 Munich Games.Raisman was speaking to reporters Tuesday following her gold medal performance in the floor exercise.“Having that floor music wasn’t intentional,” she said of her floor routine to the music of “Hava Nagila,” the New York Post reported ...

US Gymnast Raisman Makes Jewish Sports Hall of Fame

Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Aly Raisman will be inducted into The National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame & Museum.Raisman, 18, of Needham, Mass., will be among eight inductees into the hall in Commack, N.Y., in April.Also to be honored at the 21st annual induction ceremony is weighlifter David Berger, who was among the 11 Israelis killed at the Munich Olympics ...

US Federal Courts to Consider J’lem Passport Issue

The US Supreme Court returned to the lower courts the issue of whether Americans born in Jerusalem may list “Israel” on their passports.The decision delivered Monday was a success for the family of Jerusalem-born boy Menachem Zivotofsky. His family for years has sought to force the State Department to agree to state on his passport that he was born in ...

US ‘disappointed’ by plans for 1,345 east J’lem homes

The United States is “deeply disappointed” that Israel has advanced plans to build 1,345 homes in “sensitive areas” of east Jerusalem, the State Department spokesman said on Monday.Referring to the stalled Israeli-Palestinian talks, P.J. Crowley told reporters that the US views the announcement as “counter productive to our efforts to resume direct negotiations between the parties.”Read More: @ jpost.comReaders found more information ...