Posts Tagged: Jewish groups
Liberal Jews Push Obama to Drop Support for Israel at UN During White House Parley
Members of a group of Jewish supporters of the Democratic Party who met with President Barack Obama this week urged him to remove the long-standing...
Former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey Joins Protest Against Metropolitan Opera Over Klinghoffer Play
Former United States Attorney General Michael Mukasey added his name to a long list of speakers and activist groups who will protest the Metropolitan Opera's...
British Jews Protest Anti-Semitism in Front of Justice Court
JNS.org - British-Jewish groups protested Sunday in London against the growth of anti-Semitism in the United Kingdom. Standing outside London's Royal Courts of Justice, the...
Los Angeles Clippers Owner Donald Sterling: In Israel Blacks ‘Treated Like Dogs’
JNS.org - A newly released clip from a recording of a conversation between Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling and his girlfriend revealed Sterling...
Jewish Groups Renew Dialogue With Mainline Protestant Leaders
JNS.org - The heads of several Jewish and Christian organizations and denominations met in New York City on Thursday in the first such gathering...
In Sharp About Turn, AIPAC Joins Obama in Call to Delay Iran Sanctions Vote
In a sharp about turn, AIPAC, the America Israel Public Affairs Committee, has now backed the White House in its call to delay a Senate...
Russian-Jewish Teacher Ilya Farber Released From Prison
JNS.org - Russian-Jewish teacher and painter Ilya Farber was released from Russian prison on Friday. Farber was jailed on bribery charges in 2011, and received...
Jewish Group ‘Appalled’ by Huffington Post Article, SWC Says it Paints Jews as Warmongers
Popular internet newspaper, The Huffington Post, is under fire yet again for a headline and accompanying image that offended major Jewish groups. Both the Simon Wiesenthal...
Obama Threatens to Veto New Bipartisan Iran Sanctions Bill
JNS.org - President Barack Obama has threatened to veto a new bipartisan Iran sanctions bill introduced in the Senate on Thursday. The bill—sponsored by a...
Jewish Groups Raise Concerns on Iran Nuclear Deal in Calls With White House
JNS.org - White House national security officials tried to assuage leaders of American Jewish organizations about the newly reached nuclear deal between the P5+1...
American Jewish Leaders Censure Nuclear Deal; Lauder Says No Way Iran Will Honor Agreement
American Jewish leaders reacted with deep skepticism on Sunday to details of a deal reached overnight between Iran and world powers in Geneva. The deal...
Flouting Critics, U.S. Jewish Groups Continue Iran Push
Times of Israel - A day after columnist Thomas Friedman blasted Jewish groups for allying with Saudi Arabia in what he described as a push...
Naftali Bennett to Jewish Groups: Help Defeat Iran Sanctions Relief Deal
JNS.org - Israeli Minister of Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs Naftali Bennett (Habayit Hayehudi) called on Jewish groups to help influence governments to reject an...
Day After Rushed White House Meeting With Jewish Leaders, Simon Wiesenthal Center Calls Out Obama Admin. on Iran
A leading Jewish human rights group called out the Obama administration Wednesday for its recent efforts to block new Iran sanctions legislation, and urged the...
