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January 3, 2012

My colleague Zach Silberman at the Washington Jewish Week has a post up today on President Obama’s signing statement on the Defense Authorization Act, and how he declares himself able to ignore its Iran sanctions component. The question is, after months of tussling with Congress for exemptions to the Iran sanctions amendment — a good […]

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On Saturday, President Barack Obama signed into law H.R. 1540, the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012. The bill included an amendment, which was authored by Sens. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) that would place crippling economic sanctions on financial institutions that do business with the Iran Central Bank. The amendment unanimously passed […]

Jerzy Kluger, a childhood friend of Karol Wojtyla, the Polish priest who improved Vatican relations with Jews when he became Pope John Paul II, died in Rome on Dec. 31, 2011 at 90. “The young Karol Wojtyla learned a lot about Judaism from Kluger,” said author Gianfranco Svidercoschi, an aide to the late pope and […]

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