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- "Israel-US dialogue is necessary about Iran’s nuclear program, since a good agreement with Iran is a clear Israeli interest. But Israel must be prepared with a military option against Iran, as a last resort"
- "Military, defense minister believe a credible threat of an Israeli attack on Tehran’s nuclear facilities is only way US will be able to negotiate better deal with Islamic Republic"
- EVENT Israel Bonds Chicago with The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem
- Heard in Jerusalem: "Hasbara" has become something resembling a dirty word
- "Those experiences gave Thomas the fortitude to do something truly courageous: risk her friendships, face her misconceptions, and change her mind"
- EVENT 2nd Annual Kosher Chicago BBQ Festival Competition to benefit Maot Chitim
- 6 European countries join forces to do business with Iran (and throw Israel under the bus)
- "President Joe Biden's Iran policy was conceived and is being implemented by the same people who negotiated the JCPOA under Obama, who argued in favor of empowering Iran"
Tag Archives: Supreme Court
If the United States Supreme Court overturned a law on the grounds that it was not “reasonable” there would be rioting in the streets; in Israel though its business as usual
JNS Supreme Court hearing on ‘reasonableness’ law kicks off September 12, 2023 Israel’s Supreme Court, sitting as the High Court of Justice, convened on Tuesday to consider petitions against the so-called “reasonableness” law, an amendment to Basic Law: The Judiciary passed … Continue reading
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Tagged Reasonableness, Supreme Court
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“Sometimes it also takes a while for the high court to coalesce around a position that long ago became startlingly obvious to anyone not steeped in judicial artifice or postmodern identity politics—which includes a majority of every American demographic group”
FAIR SUBSTACK SCOTUS Ends Affirmative Action, Sort of Ilya Shapiro June 29, 2023 Forty-five years and a day after one Supreme Court justice opened the door to race-based college admissions (the 1978 Bakke case), six justices closed it. The Court has finally recognized … Continue reading
Activists and the political opposition say the ruling coalition’s proposals, which aim at curbing the power of Israel’s judiciary, could undermine the country’s existing system of checks and balances
WALL STREET JOURNAL Israel’s Supreme Court Strikes Down Appointment of Key Netanyahu Ally Dov Lieber January 18, 2023 Israel’s Supreme Court struck down the appointment of a minister who is a critical ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, dealing an … Continue reading
Yeshiva University “would “likely win” if the case were to come again before the Supreme Court”
NEW YORK POST Supreme Court sides with LGBTQ group at Yeshiva University Cayla Bamberger September 14, 2022 The Supreme Court refused to block a state court order that requires New York’s Yeshiva University to officially recognize an LGBTQ student group. Chief … Continue reading
The Supreme Court rules that Maine cannot exclude religious schools from a program that gives private school funding to parents in areas without public schools
JEWISH INSIDER Supreme Court strikes down restrictions on public funding of religious schools Marc Rod June 22, 2022 The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday against restrictions excluding religious schools from programs that allow public funding of private schools, the latest … Continue reading
A decision about restricting religious services offers a window into the two tribes competing for dominance in the country today
TABLET MAG The Supreme Court Emerges as a Microcosm of America by Liel Leibovitz November 25, 2020 Supreme Court decisions rarely make for page turners, but the one handed down last night, siding with Jewish and Catholic groups opposing the … Continue reading
“Ginsburg embodied a particular ambivalence in Jewish life that is found in no other faith community”
JNS RBG: An American Jewish justice warrior by Melanie Phillips September 24, 2020 The obituary in Britain’s Guardian newspaper of the iconic liberal US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died last weekend, provoked outrage among a number of … Continue reading
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ADL attack on Kavanaugh nomination “latest instance of how Jonathan Greenblatt has turned the venerable anti-Semitism watchdog into a partisan outfit”
JNS Whatever happened to the ADL? by Jonathan Tobin July 13, 2018 When Jonathan Greenblatt replaced Abe Foxman as national director of the Anti-Defamation League in 2015, the shift from a career Jewish professional to a veteran Democratic Party operative … Continue reading
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“The death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia doesn’t merely mark a tragedy for Constitutional philosophy – it may mark the death of American Constitutionalism as a whole”
BREITBART Antonin Scalia’s Death Could Mark End of Constitution by Ben Shapiro February 14, 2016 Scalia’s philosophy of jurisprudence is well-known and shaped two generations of conservative thinkers: the Constitution ought to be interpreted according to its original meaning. This … Continue reading
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