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There are 28 Jewish members of Congress: 26 Democrats, one independent who caucuses with the Democrats and one Republican. Nine of them are senators and 19 are representatives. Eighteen — a majority — back the Iran deal, nine oppose it and one is undecided. Backing the deal Senate Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., elected 2010. Ranking Democrat on the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., elected 1992, retiring next year. Democratic chief deputy whip, member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., elected 1992. Ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn.,...

What is most disturbing in the Butler affair is not only that the prize's recipient is an anti-Israel agitator, the version of the old Kapò; it is the role played by the new "Judenrat. A few months after the German city of Frankfurt elected Peter Feldmann as its first Jewish mayor since the rise of Adolf Hitler, the city council awarded a prize to a Jewish anti-Zionist activist, Judith Butler. The city of Jacob Hoffmann, Franz Rozenzweig, the artist Moritz Oppenheim, the world-renowned chemist Paul Ehrlich, and many other Jews who brought glory to Frankfurt before the Nazi shame, decided...

Shari Goodman has penned an excellent column at Family Security Matters over LA Federation's sniveling capitulation to Hamas groups demands to cancel my lecture for ZOA (Zionist Organization of America.) Shameful, weak and feckless. Richard Sandler and Jay Sanderson are still getting blowback for their abject cowardice (and they receive upwards of $500,000 for their spinelessness). Today's Judenrat Shari Goodman, Family Security Matters The recent cancellation by the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles of Pamela Geller's speech to the Zionist Organization of America should serve as a wake up call for the rest of the Jewish Community. The cancellation...

They may falsely say your comrades gave confessions implicating you. They may bug your cell. They may deprive you of sleep, force you to sit in contorted postures for hours, even blindfold and beat you. Such warnings about Israeli interrogators from the Shin Bet domestic intelligence service are usually sounded among jailed Palestinians. But this time, they appear in a Hebrew-language pamphlet written for Jewish settlers and their sympathizers. With friction building in the occupied West Bank over the prospect -- albeit distant -- of a Palestinian state, the Shin Bet is quietly knuckling down on Jews who might turn...

Israel's hardest battle may still lie ahead, and it's not against an Arab foe. Warnings are growing louder that evicting tens of thousands of Jewish settlers from the West Bank's heartland — a requirement for peace with the Arabs — will be bloody, and perhaps fail. The defense minister says extremism is spreading among ultranationalists like "a cancerous growth," the intelligence chief warns of a growing readiness to take up arms to resist evacuation, and some settler rabbis are urging religious soldiers to refuse orders. It's a homegrown problem: For decades, Israel pampered settlers as brave pioneers, and the government...

Deputy State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan has instructed police to launch an investigation regarding a ceremony that was held to praise soldiers who refused an order to evict settlers from the Hebron market. During the ceremony these soldiers received payment as reward for their refusal. The order was given following a police investigation that raised suspicion that soldiers were incited to refuse commands, an act which under Israeli law is a crime in itself. Nitzan also ordered an investigation into an ad published on the Internet by a group called the Headquarters to Save the People and the Land of Israel,...

How did it happen that yeshiva students in the Givati Brigade took part in the military operation to destroy the Federman-Tor farm and homes three nights ago? Very simple: Senior security commanders lied to them and told them they were participating in a mission to help catch a terrorist. Ro'i Sharon, reporter for the Maariv daily newspaper, revealed that it was feared that the young soldiers would refuse to take part in the mission if they knew it was not military but rather one of destroying Jewish homes. A member of Hevron's emergency alert team, which generally works closely with...

Over 100 right-wing activists attempted to enter a home on the outskirts of the Shuafat refugee camp Wednesday morning, saying the home and the area around it was Jewish property. The activists made two attempts to enter the home, one early in the morning and another a few hours later, but were turned away both times by border police. "The police are keeping us out of our land and letting Arabs build there," said Aryeh King, the leader of the group. "It's absurd, but that's the State of Israel." King explained that after Arabs began building on the disputed territory...

Settlers in the unauthorized Migron outpost turned to the Jerusalem Magistrates Court this week in hopes of staving off the evacuation of their small hilltop community, erected during 2002 in the Judean hills. On Monday they asked the court to rule on the status of their outpost, which the state has said is constructed on private Palestinian land. The settlers contend that this classification is erroneous, according to their attorney, Daniel Kramer. They have asked the court to reclassify the land as abandoned property, save for one portion which they purchased from Palestinians. In that instance, they are asking the...

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Foreign Minister Tzippi Livni overruled Israel’s security chiefs Sunday, handing down orders that soldiers are to make no effort to prevent rocket fire. Israel Radio diplomatic affairs correspondent Shmuel Tal reported Sunday afternoon that the Security Cabinet decided at its meeting to instruct the IDF not to take action to stop terrorists identified as about to launch rockets towards Israel or hit them immediately afterward either. Defense Minister Amir Peretz and Public Security Minister Avi Dichter both argued that Israel is obligated to protect its citizens from rocket fire. They were overruled, however, by Olmert...

Right-wing activist, currently standing trial for insulting public servant, refuses to apologize for calling Disengagement Authority director 'a Judenrat' Nadia Matar, chairman of the right-wing movement "Women in Green" who is standing trial for calling the outgoing Disengagement Authority Chairman Yonatan Bassi "a Judenrat" refuses to apologize. "We can't be intimidated, we can't be silenced. I don't take back any word I wrote to Yonatan Bassi, on the contrary – only now we're witnessing how much grief this man, along with other expulsion criminals, has caused the Israeli people, especially to our expelled brethren," Matar said. Matar, whose trial opened...

Tense Quiet in Hevron 14:41 Jan 16, '06 / 16 Tevet 5766 By Hillel Fendel Hundreds of army forces and special policemen entered the Jewish Quarter of Hevron late this morning, taking over rooftops, as well as the Betar building. The situation is tense. "They've come simply to provoke us, to scare us and to show their strength," said David Wilder, spokesman for the Hevron Jewish Community. "They have come with a tremendous show of force - soldiers, police, Yassam, Border Guard, and horses - and they're just standing and watching. I don't think there's been one arrest. They're simply...

The Jhmoon (Jewish Shmoon), aka Jews for a Second Holocaust by Bill Levinson Al Cap's L'il Abner comic strip featured a plump and armless creature known as a Shmoo (plural Shmoon). The Shmoon were so accommodating that, if a person looked at it with an expression of hunger, it would cook itself as whatever kind of meat the person desired. The Shmoon are purely fantasy but, as shown by Michael Lerner's Tikkun.org and Eric Yoffie's Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), there seem to be plenty of Jhmoon who would be delighted to turn themselves into lampshades and soap for the...

Anyone who has been following the wires has no doubt heard about the program that was to take place at Princeton University featuring three ex-terrorists , two from the PLO and one from Lebanon, who were speaking in support of America and Israel after renouncing terrorism. As one of the organizers for this event, I had the opportunity to meet and speak with these guys before the event, and their personal life stories are fascinating for understanding the mindset and indoctrination that produces terrorists. How sad that Princeton students missed out on this important event that was forced off campus,...

Peacenik Jew Marries Arab ontroversial Brooklyn peace activist Adam Shapiro married the "enemy" yesterday.Shapiro, a Jew who has been an outspoken critic of the Israeli invasion of the West Bank, tied the knot with longtime love Huwaida Arraf — a Palestinian peace activist from Detroit.The couple — he is 30, she is 26 — were married in a Catholic ceremony at a Detroit-area church. The location was kept secret because Shapiro and his family in Sheepshead Bay have received death threats from angry Jews. More than 200 people attended the nuptials.Shapiro traded his trademark grubby T-shirt and bandanna for a...