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• Op-Ed: Hillel is an open forum

  October 8, 2014 2:54pm

  In advance of the ‘Open Hillel’ conference, Hillel International’s CEO explains why pluralism and support for Israel are not contradictions.

• Health care vote could mean tough campaign for some Jewish Dems

  March 26, 2010 2:55am

  For Democratic Congress members in vulnerable districts, the vote on the health care bill could be key in determining success or failure in November — depending on where the economy is.

• Another protester gets in

  March 23, 2010 7:31pm

  Just like during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech last night, the speech by Quartet Representative to the Middle East Tony Blair was interrupted Tuesday morning by a protester screaming and holding a sign. In this release, Code Pink takes credit for the Netanyahu interruptions, and considering the Blair protester was holding a pink sign,…

• IDF in Haiti: It’s about morality, not self-interest

  March 23, 2010 7:21pm

  The Chief Medical Officer of the Israel Defense Forces’ field hospital in Haiti spoke this morning at the AIPAC conference, and offered a rebuke to those who had called Israel’s efforts after the Haitian earthquake as partly rooted in self-interest or good press for the Jewish state. If it was really about self-interest, asked Col….

• Blair calls for immediate direct negotiations

  March 23, 2010 7:08pm

  Tony Blair called for “face-to-face,” direct negotiations between the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority as soon as possible.

• Protesters and roll calls

  March 23, 2010 7:06am

  Is it really worth paying hundreds of dollars to attend the AIPAC conference, just to spend a few seconds screaming at the Israeli prime minister? Apparently it was for three people Monday evening, who were thrown out of AIPAC’s annual banquet on Monday evening for trying to interrupt Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech. We…

• Do we want daylight?

  March 23, 2010 4:15am

  Daylight — when it comes to the U.S.-Israel relationship, last year it was a good thing. But today at the AIPAC policy conference it was something that should be avoided, said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. When top Jewish leaders had their first meeting with President Barack Obama last summer, the most talked-about moment that…

• AIPAC head refutes ‘dangerous’ view on U.S.-Israel ties

  March 23, 2010 1:52am

  The view that U.S.-Israel ties rest on resolving the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians must be rejected, said the executive director of AIPAC.

• Livni: Peace needed to achieve ‘Zionist vision’

  March 23, 2010 12:24am

  Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni stressed the need for an agreement to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in order to achieve the “Zionist vision of a Jewish and democratic state.”

• Clinton: Settlements undermine U.S. role

  March 22, 2010 6:43pm

  U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Jewish settlement construction “undermines America’s unique ability to play a role” in the peace process and that the “status quo is unsustainable.”