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  • Groups fighting abortion restriction in health reform bill

    November 30, 2009 12:35am

    Several Jewish groups are mobilizing to fight a controversial measure in health reform legislation that would have the effect of eliminating insurance coverage for abortion for millions of women.

  • AJWS leads coalition to aid small farmers

    November 29, 2009 4:23pm

    The American Jewish World Service is calling on the U.S. Trade Representative to take measures that would aid small farmers in developing countries.

  • Second Rubashkin trial is dropped

    November 29, 2009 4:15pm

    Federal prosecutors have dropped all immigration charges against Sholom Rubashkin.

  • Iranian Nobel laureate has assets frozen

    November 29, 2009 4:09pm

    Iran has frozen the bank accounts and seized the Nobel Peace Prize medal of an Iranian human rights activist.

  • Livnat rips Obama administration as ‘horrible’

    November 29, 2009 4:00pm

    An Israeli government minister called the Obama administration “horrible.”

  • JDC clinic for Falash Mura reopens

    November 29, 2009 3:43pm

    A health clinic in Ethiopia run by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee has reopened.

  • Israel suspends settlement building permits

    November 29, 2009 3:39pm

    Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak suspended all permits for building projects in Israeli settlements, but also approved plans for the construction of 28 public buildings.

  • Florida changes vote date to avoid Passover conflict

    November 26, 2009 7:50pm

    The date of a special election in Florida to fill the seat of a prominent Jewish congressman was changed because it fell on the last day of Passover.

  • Election to replace Wexler delayed a week

    November 26, 2009 2:47am

    The special election to replace Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.) has been rescheduled to avoid a conflict with the final day of Passover. Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) announced Wednesday that the election would be delayed a week — from April 6 to April 13, 2010. The change comes a couple days after the group Shalom…

  • Mitchell’s remarks and more reaction

    November 26, 2009 2:21am

    Here’s the transcript of Middle East envoy George Mitchell’s press conference Wednesday on Israel’s settlement freeze. More reactions have come in to the freeze announcement. The Anti-Defamation League called it "courageous and unprecedented," while Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia, said that "what…