Posts Tagged: Janet Yellen
US Treasury Department Targets International Charities, Individuals Fundraising for Hamas
The US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has identified three individuals and one charity as having significant financial ties to...
US Congress Tells Elite Colleges to Disclose New Policies on Encampments, Antisemitic Protests
Two US congressional committees on Thursday asked 10 of America's most prestigious universities to disclose their plans for preventing another academic year of antisemitic discrimination...
US Congress Launches Investigation Into Outside Funding to Anti-Israel Campus Demonstrations
The US House of Representatives has launched an investigation into 20 nonprofit organizations that are currently funding anti-Zionist student groups mounting pro-Hamas demonstrations on college...
Senators Demand Answers From Biden Administration on $6 Billion Iran Prisoner Deal
More than two dozen Republican Senators on Friday sent a letter to top Biden administration officials challenging their decision to unfreeze $6 billion in Iranian...
Tlaib, AOC Join Call for Treasury to Strip Tax-Exempt Status From US Charities ‘Supporting’ Israeli Settlements
US Representatives Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and five other Democrats have called for the US Treasury to stop granting tax exemptions to American...
Israeli PM Netanyahu Breaks Into Top 20 on Forbes List of World’s Most Powerful People; Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei Stays at 18
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu moved up one position to 20th in Forbes Magazine’s newly-published 2016 list of the world's most powerful people, while Iran’s...
Former Bank of Israel Head Stanley Fischer Appointed Vice Chair of U.S. Fed
JNS.org - U.S. President Barack Obama appointed former Bank of Israel head Stanley Fischer as the vice chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve. Fischer, 70,...
