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Fill key State Department roles, Jewish groups tell Senate leaders

The Jewish Federations of North America and Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish organizations led 13 other Jewish groups in a letter to Senate leaders on Tuesday, asking the upper chamber to confirm Trump administration nominees for two key U.S. State Department positions.The groups asked Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D. Read more » »

B’nai B’rith Asks Secretary of Veterans Affairs to Remove Swastika-Bearing Gravestones From Veterans’ Cemeteries

(Washington, D.C., May 15, 2020)— B’nai B’rith President Charles O. Kaufman and CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin have sent a letter to Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie expressing outrage that several gravestones belonging to German prisoners of war are adorned with Nazi imagery. Read more » »