64.6 F
San Diego
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Home Tags Bipartisanship

Tag: Bipartisanship

Omaha rabbi who attended Netanyahu speech ‘deeply moved’ by bipartisan support

0
Rep. Mike Flood (R-Neb.) invited Rabbi Steven Abraham of Beth El Synagogue, a Conservative congregation in Omaha, to join him for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress on July 24. “The...
Rabbi Levi Shemtov lights the U.S. Capitol Menorah as (from left) House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) look on. Credit: Chabad.org/News.

Historic menorah-lighting at US Capitol by leaders of Senate and House

0
In a historic first, the congressional leadership on both sides of the aisle joined on Tuesday, the sixth night of Chanukah, for the inaugural lighting of the U.S. Capitol Menorah. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.)...
U.S. President Joe Biden in Tel Aviv on Oct. 18, 2023. Credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Has Biden tipped the Democrats back towards a bipartisan consensus?

0
It’s all a matter of perspective. For Israel’s government, the obvious benefits of President Joe Biden’s brief visit to Israel, his fulsome rhetoric of support for the Jewish state and scathing denunciations of Hamas...
The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Credit: ItzaVU/Shutterstock.

House bill amasses bipartisan consensus to continue Iran sanctions

0
Three measures opposing violence and human-rights abuses perpetrated by the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism passed in the U.S. House of Representatives. On Tuesday, the Combat Rampant Iranian Missile Exports (Fight CRIME) Act (H.R. 3152) received 403...
Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) speaking at the 2018 AIPAC Policy Conference. Credit: AIPAC.

Democrats don’t want to save bipartisan support for Israel

0
Should Jews welcome the support of both Democrats and Republicans for the cause of Israel? That used to be a bedrock principle of American Jewry. But that isn’t true anymore for many on the...
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley at the Republican Jewish Coalition's conference in Las Vegas, Nov. 6, 2021. Source: RJC/Twitter.

RJC confab questions declining Democratic support for Israel, the role of nonpartisan organizations

0
The Republican Jewish Coalition held its annual Leadership Summit at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas this past weekend with more than 700 attendees. It was one of the organization’s largest-ever gatherings and the...
Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) speaking on the floor of the House about a bill to fund the Iron Dome missile-defense system to Israel. Source: Screenshot/C-SPAN.

After rough few days, Iron Dome funding prevails, but not without partisan finger-pointing

0
Pro-Israel Democrats scrambled on Thursday to restore approximately $1 billion to help fund the replenishment of Israel’s Iron Dome air-defense system after funding was stripped earlier this week from the House of Representatives’ legislation...
The U.S. Capitol building. Credit: Tupungato/Shutterstock.

AIPAC lauds Senate Foreign Relations Committee for bill supporting Abraham Accords

0
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee was applauded by AIPAC on Thursday for adopting the “Israel Relations Normalization Act of 2021,” which seeks to support and expand recent normalization agreements between Israel, United Arab Emirates,...
U.S. House of Representatives building in Washington, D.C. Credit: www.house.gov.

Bipartisan bill seeks to block funding to Hamas and other terrorist groups

0
A bipartisan bill aiming to cut funding to terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip was introduced on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday. If passed, the “Hamas International Financing Prevention Act,” H.R....
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott with state legislators after the signing of measure of HB3257 that establishes a Texas Holocaust, Genocide and Anti-Semitism Advisory Commission in Austin on June 16, 2021. Source: Screenshot.

In bipartisan vote, Texas adopts IHRA definition to define anti-Jewish acts

0
With the support of its governor and state legislators, Texas has become the first U.S. state to fully utilize the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism to interpret anti-Jewish acts. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott...