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US urges Israel to purchase American-made fire trucks

Americans want a piece of the multi million shekel pie that the State is expected to invest in the next year for the purchase of new fire trucks. Ynet learned that the US embassy in Tel Aviv has approached the Ministry of Industry Trade and Labor with a complaint over the fact that there seems to be discrimination against US fire ...

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US to support Iron Dome funding

The United States is slated to provide Israel with $430 million worth of security aid in the near future which will include $205 million allocated for the development of Iron Domebatteries. Democrats and republicans are slated to finalize the 2011 budget in the coming days.The delay in the approval of the funds was caused by foot-dragging in passing the budget in Congress.Read More: @ ...

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US Senate Candidate DioGuardi Wishes a Ksiva V’Chasima Toyva, Literally

With the elections season drawing closer by the day, the political ads just don’t stop coming. But Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe DioGuardi, who is up for a three-way Primary in NY, Tuesday September 14, has taken it to the next level.In a new audio ad released for the last ten days of the Primary, DioGuardi asks the Jewish community ...

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US reform rabbis: Loyalty oath undemocratic

US Reform rabbis issued a statement Sunday condemning the loyalty oath bill, an amendment to Israel’s Citizenship Law that requires all new non-Jewish immigrants to pledge allegiance to a Jewish democratic state.The Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR), which authored the statement, warned that forcing Arab citizens to take a loyalty oath will strengthen Israel’s enemies and harm the State’s ...

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US rabbis speak out against rabbis’ letter

The storm surrounding the rabbis’ letter continues: It started with hundreds of rabbis signing a manifesto prohibiting Israeli Jews from renting out apartments to non-Jews which was soon followed by a counter letter signed by renowned haredi rabbis. Now it’s the turn of rabbis from across the Atlantic to send in their response.Some 490 rabbis from throughout the US, orthodox, ...

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US rabbis: Recognize our conversions

New front against Chief Rabbinate over conversions: Dozens of Orthodox rabbis from the United States sent a letter to Interior Minister Eli Yishai on Monday, demanding that he recognize the conversions performed by them and allow the converts to immigrate to Israel.According to the rabbis, the Interior Ministry consults with the Israeli Chief Rabbinate when determining which conversions performed abroad would ...

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US Philanthropist Savors Opening of Jewish Museum

As his train rolled across Germany in 1939, passing through small towns where swastikas fluttered from flagpoles, Tad Taube cowered in fear each time Nazi police entered his compartment and barked orders for his documents – papers that plainly identified him as an eight-year-old Jewish boy from Poland.But the full terror of the war was still a few months off, ...

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US Opposes Penalty for Russia Over Historic Books

The Obama administration is opposing a Jewish group’s bid to have civil fines levied against Russia for failing to obey a court order to return its historic books and documents – a dispute that has halted the loan of Russian art works for exhibit in the United States.In a recent court filing, the Justice Department argued that judicial sanctions against ...

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US museum seeks to identify Shoah kids

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum is trying to identify more than 1,000 children in photos that date from when they were scattered across Europe at the end of World War II and taken in by relief agencies.The museum is posting the pictures, which are part of its collections, online and plans to publish many of the images in newspapers and ...

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US missiles kill 15 in NW Pakistan

A volley of U.S. missiles killed 15 alleged militants in an extremist stronghold in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, the second such strike in less than 12 hours, officials said. The Obama administration regards missile attacks from drone aircraft as a key weapon against al-Qaida and the Taliban close to the Afghan border. Last month, al-Qaida’s reputed No. 3 official. Mustafa ...

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US Jews pro Obama, oppose concessions

Although a slim majority of American Jews supports the Obama administration’s handling of US-Israel relations, a larger majority opposes any Israeli concession on Jerusalem as part of a peace deal, a survey released over the weekend by the American Jewish Committee revealed.Fifty-five percent of respondents said they approved of the administration’s policy regarding US-Israel relations. But 61% also said Israel ...

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US Jews hail decision against San Fran circumcision ban

Jewish groups in America have welcomed Thursday’s decision by a California Superior Court judge to remove a proposal aimed at banning circumcision from a San Francisco city ballot scheduled for November.In response to the initiative, a number of Jewish organizations, including the Jewish Community Relations Council of San Francisco and the Anti-Defamation League, along with several individual plaintiffs – both ...

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