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By Miriam Maya and Doug White LAS VEGAS, Nevada–San Diego’s delegation of 49 young adults at the first annual TribeFest, hosted by The Jewish Federations of North America, was like no other. Our first indication of such was how we chose to identify ourselves.  Imagine a large banquet hall in a cavernous hotel convention center with

LOS ANGELES (Press Release)–The Israel advocacy group, StandWithUs, is urging schools, campuses, synagogues, community organizations, and individuals to celebrate Israel by designating March 30 as the day to buy up Israeli goods at local stores.    The date was chosen because the anti-Israel boycott campaign has planned a global boycott of Israeli products for the

    By Roz Rothstein and Roberta Seid LOS ANGELES –The boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign against the state of Israel is nothing new. Prejudice, isolation and punishment of Jews, an earlier form of BDS has recurred over the past 2,000 years. In Europe and the Middle East, Jewish people were isolated, demonized, and

NEW YORK (WJC) — The World Jewish Congress in association with the Jewish Labor Committee (JLC), has ben hosting a series of gatherings that has brought together Ofer Eini, Chairman of the Histadrut (Israel’s Labor Federation) and American union leaders in order to reaffirm Israel’s strong and longstanding relationship with the American Labor movement and to discuss

NEW YORK (Press Release) — Noting that a serious examination of the homegrown extremist threat in the United States is needed, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday, March 9,  expressed concerns about the Homeland Security hearings opening this week in Washington. Robert G. Sugarman, ADL National Chair and Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director issued the

NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday, March 9,  submitted recommendations on how the U.S. government can more effectively address the issue of bullying and cyberbullying, ahead of a White House Bullying Prevention Conference on March 10. “Bullying and harassment is a continuing problem for school districts, parents and students across the nation,”