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Why Jewish groups aren’t thrilled about the upcoming tax overhaul
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaking as other Republican leaders in the Senate, from left to right, Orrin Hatch, John Thune and John Cornyn, look on, Nov. 28, 2017. Read more » »
Alumnus works ‘to inspire passion’ for science and technology
Larry Dubinsky, a Beasley School of Law alumnus and CEO of The Franklin Institute, was appointed as the chair-elect of the Association of Science-Technology Centers in November. by Emily Trinh 05 December 2017 Larry Dubinski, a law alumnus and current president and CEO of the Franklin Institute, sits in his Franklin Institute office on Wednesday. Read more » »
Talbot Fisher: Display an archive of local Jewish history
Talbot Fisher The Register-Mail TalbotFisher16 GALESBURG — On the second floor of Seymour Library at Knox College, nestled and carefully arranged under glass, are artifacts of the Jewish community of Galesburg. Read more »
What the House-Senate Conference Committee should do about the Johnson Amendment
The Johnson Amendment is the part of Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) which bans tax-exempt institutions from participating in political campaigns. The US House of Representatives has passed H.R.1, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, to revise the Code. Section 5201 of H.R. 1 would modify the Johnson Amendment. Read more » »
Pro-Palestinian Groups Attack Administration Nominee for Opposing Israeli Boycott
Email a copy of „Pro-Palestinian Groups Attack Administration Nominee for Opposing Israeli Boycott” to a friend Kenneth Marcus speaking at the Louis D. Brandeis Center’s fourth annual National Law Student Leadership Conference. Photo: Louis D. Brandeis Center. JNS.org – Leaders of major American Jewish organizations are rallying around Kenneth L. Read more » »
UN marks Palestine Day with fresh slew of resolutions condemning Israel
The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday passed six resolutions described by a watchdog group as “anti-Israel,” marking 70 years since the world body’s partition plan carved Mandate Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state that never came to be. Read more » »
Cloud City
Some stories can be devoured time and again. Knowing the outcome is irrelevant. The story is so riveting that each time the reader is tricked into thinking it could end otherwise. I’ve found these in fiction — Gone With the Wind, for example — and also in non-fiction. The rags to riches to rags story of Horace “Haw” Tabor is such a tale. Read more » »
Jewish leaders back Education Department nominee, pro-Palestinian groups slam him
WASHINGTON—Leaders of major American Jewish organizations are rallying around Kenneth L. Marcus, the nominee for assistant secretary of education for civil rights, as pro-Palestinian groups denounce him for opposing the BDS movement. Read more » »
Dec. 11: South Orange B’nai B’rith Federation Housing Marks 25 Years of Quality Living for Area Seniors
Dignitaries and Guest Speakers Including Deputy Speaker of the New Jersey Assembly Mila Jasey and Essex County Freeholder Patricia Sebold will Join the Jewish Community Housing Corporation of Metropolitan New Jersey and Township of South Orange Read more » »
But Don’t You Dare Criticize American Jews
Almost since the day the State of Israel was established, there have been American Jews of prominence who have criticized it. That’s a 69-year-old fact of life to which Israelis long ago became accustomed. Read more » »
