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By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA)—At the behest of leading U.S. Jewish groups, Congress is set to free Russia from the Jackson-Vanik restrictions, the Soviet-era law aimed at exerting pressure on Russia to loosen its emigration restrictions. But that doesn’t mean the Putin administration is off the hookContinue Reading

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By Marcy Oster, JTA World News Service Israeli developer Izhar Gafni riding the prototype of a cardboard bicycle he designed during a presentation at Microsoft’s High-Tech convention ThinkNEXT in Tel Aviv, Nov. 5, 2012. (Dror Garti/Flash90/JTA) JERUSALEM (JTA)—Here are some recent stories out of Israel that you may have missed: IContinue Reading

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By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA)—The day after the election looks a lot like the day before for President Obama, particularly in areas that have attracted the attention of Jewish voters: Tussling with Republicans domestically on the economy and health care, and dancing gingerly with Israel around theContinue Reading

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By Ben Harris, JTA World News Service BOCA RATON, Fla. (JTA)—At about 10 a.m. on Election Day, a black sedan pulled up to the polling station at the J.C. Mitchell Elementary School. “He threw Israel under the bus,” said the car’s driver, a chatty silver-haired man, as he helped an elderlyContinue Reading

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By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA)—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made headlines last month with this question: What are the U.S. red lines when it comes to Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program? The two presidential campaigns are offering two different answers. “Recently, President Obama and Vice President JoeContinue Reading

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By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not meet, but they ended up sounding not so far apart. Netanyahu’s address to the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday in many ways echoed Obama’s speech there on Tuesday, with both ratchetingContinue Reading

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By , JTA World News Service (JTA) — The director of an anti-Islam film that helped spark attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities that left the U.S. envoy to Libya dead is not Israeli as he claimed, a consultant to the film said. The Atlantic blogger Jeffrey Goldberg reported that a SteveContinue Reading

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By Edwin Black, Special to JTNews Since the last century, Iran has been methodically pursuing the in-house capability of developing a missile-delivered nuclear bomb. The regime of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is now closer than ever — probably in the latter stages of perfecting an atomic bomb with a multipoint detonation mechanism,Continue Reading

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By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service CHARLOTTE, N.C. (JTA)—Democrats are returning language affirming Jerusalem as Israel’s capital to their party platform. Two sources confirmed to JTA that the party’s platform committee was meeting in Charlotte, the site of this year’s Democratic Party convention, on Wednesday evening to return language inContinue Reading

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By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service CHARLOTTE N.C. (JTA)—Jerusalem has many mysteries, but none may be as perplexing at present as its disappearance from the Democratic Party platform. Several people involved in the platform’s writing who spoke to JTA said they did not know how it happened. Republicans launched aContinue Reading