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According to Edwin Black on The Daily Caller today, the New Israel Fund received more than $1 Million dollars in funding from the State Department. As Black noted, “Vocal critics in both the U.S. and Israel charge that the New Israel Fund has knowingly financed groups that support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, and worked to get Israeli soldiers prosecuted for so-called ‘war crimes.” Benny Yanay of an Israeli military organization called Consensus, representing some 3,000 members of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), stated, “The New Israel Fund acts against Israel — against the soldiers of our country....

Politics and diplomacy were not a good mix at Monday's protest rally against Iran at the United Nations. Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin didn't participate in the "Stop Iran Now" rally and there were a lot of hard feelings about it. It was a simple sign that read "We Want Sarah. Shame On The Rally Organizer." Howard Webber from Brooklyn held it. "As important an event as this is, you needed a unity of Democrats and Republicans to show Ahmadinejad that we're not going to accept a nuclear Iran." Buddy Macy of Little Fells, N.J., felt much the same way....

Message: 1 Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 20:45:41 -0500 From: rabbi@[snip].org> Subject: From Rabbi [snip] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear Congregants, It's not just those of us in the Reform movement, or the local Reform rabbis, who support the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's decision on civil marriage for same sex couples. Read on. And, if you agree, please take action immediately be contacting your legislators. A vote will come up this week - as soon as Wednesday. Why is this a Jewish issue? Because we Jews have always been in the forefront on issues of civil rights: and the denial of...