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The U.S. and its Western allies are pressing Iran to take steps to sharply cut the amount of radioactive material it holds in a bid to shore up last year’s nuclear deal and discourage the incoming Trump administration from abandoning it, Western officials said.
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By Yitzchok Adlerstein: For many years, I peddled Natan Sharansky’s Three D’s. He argued that criticism of Israel crossed a line into anti-Semitism when it violated any one of three touchstones: Delegitimization, Demonization, and Double-standard. Worked well for me. But it took time to get results. You had to wait to hear significant conversation. We needed something like the instant strep test you look for when one of the kids is under the weather.
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A new front has opened in the fight against Israel’s existence. Just as the U.S.-Israel relationship has developed a robust and burgeoning commercial dimension, the threats against Israel have acquired one. There are those who seek to weaken and undermine Israel through the politics of discrimination, hatred and fear.
New York will not tolerate this new brand of warfare. New York stands with Israel because we are Israel and Israel is us. Our values — freedom, democracy, liberty and the pursuit of peace — are collective, as is our drive to achieve them.
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The Illinois House just joined the state’s senate in unanimously passing a bill that would prevent the state’s pension fund from investing in companies that boycott Israel. Gov. Bruce Rauner has pledged to sign the historic “anti-BDS” bill.
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Is this a turning point? Something unusual happened this year. Under tight security an historic event quietly unfolded in Brooklyn. For the first time, Orthodox Jews in Flatbush assembled on the 5th day of Iyur in a shul, under the auspices of a Chasidic rebbe, to express hakaras ha-tov to HKB”H for the State of Israel.
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