In a short Q&A session before the Jewish Federations of North America, Ginsburg said the most immediate impact of last week’s election on the Supreme Court is that it will get a new ninth member. (Nov. 14, 2016)
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In a short Q&A session before the Jewish Federations of North America, Ginsburg said the most immediate impact of last week’s election on the Supreme Court is that it will get a new ninth member. (Nov. 14, 2016)
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who once called Mr. Trump a “faker” who “has no consistency about him,” said on Monday what she likely wanted to avoid: Mr. Trump will make the Supreme Court whole again. (Nov. 14, 2016)
Leaders of the North American Jewish community on Monday agreed to write a letter to PM Benjamin Netanyahu on the issue of the unimplemented government decision to create an egalitarian prayer space at the southern end of the Western Wall. (Nov. 14, 2016)
Board of trustees of the Jewish Federations of North America votes to send a letter to Israeli prime minister underscoring the 'urgency' of creating an egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall. (Nov. 14, 2016)
Prime Minister Netanyahu said he hoped President Obama would not back any new U.N. initiatives on Palestinian-Israeli peace in the final weeks of his term. (Nov. 15, 2016)
“I very much hope President Obama will continue the policy he enunciated,” PM Netanyahu said Tuesday in a video address ending the annual Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly, which was held in Washington, D.C this year. (Nov. 16, 2016)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America held in Washington, D.C. Tuesday that “quiet diplomacy between Jews” is what’s needed to resolve the Western Wall issue. (Nov. 15, 2016)
For Stephen H. Hoffman, president of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland, and Gary L. Gross, the board chair of the Federation, the takeaways from Day One of the 2016 Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly were about the same. (Nov. 14, 2016)
History was made last week in Philadelphia in the controversial area of Jewish intermarriage. At the National Museum of American Jewish History, representatives of prominent organizations discussed the results of their latest studies on the topic – but the historical aspect was not what the experts said, but who was listening. (Nov. 1, 2016)
As a moderator introduced Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Washington on Monday for her first post-election speaking engagement, he said something that caused the sympathetic audience to whoop and holler. "May you live a thousand years!" (Nov. 14, 2016)
PM Benjamin Netanyahu said he is looking forward to working with the President-elect on many issues in the region. “I look forward to working with President-elect Trump to further the twin interests of peace and security,” he said. “I, for one, find great encouragement in the fact that there’s this continuity of friendship.” (Nov. 15, 2016)
It was hard to miss the Pittsburgh contingent at the JFNA General Assembly Sunday night, waving their Terrible Towels and cheering with robust hometown enthusiasm as the chairs of the 2016 conclave, Cindy and David Shapira, took the podium at the opening plenary session. (Nov. 14, 2016)
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg once dismissed Donald Trump as a "faker" who didn't deserve the presidency. On Monday, she appeared reconciled to his election victory, acknowledging the Republican businessman would fill the vacancy Supreme Court seat. (Nov. 14, 2016)
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg spoke on a range of topics at the Jewish Federations of North America conference, regarding Trump's upcoming nomination of the next Supreme Court Justice, her prolific online fanbase and more. (Nov. 14, 2016)
There is an existing vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court and Donald Trump as president "will fill it," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says in her first public remarks since last week’s election. (Nov. 14, 2016)
The day after voters elected Donald Trump as their next president, the Supreme Court got right back to work. But longtime court artist Arthur Lien, who was in the courtroom last Wednesday, noticed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg appeared to stage a silent protest: She wore the necklace she reserves for reading dissenting opinions out loud. (Nov. 15, 2016)
Donald Trump will inherit a policy toolkit on Iran full of hammers and screws when he becomes president, a senior Obama administration official said on Sunday at the Jewish Federations of North America's General Assembly. (Nov. 15, 2016)
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she was looking forward to Donald Trump’s naming of a ninth justice to fill out the high court. Ginsburg, speaking Monday at the annual Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly, was asked what the immediate impact of a Trump presidency would be. (Nov. 14, 2016)
PM Netanyahu advised patience and the need for “quiet diplomacy” on Tuesday to North American Jews angry and frustrated over the government’s failure to implement a decision to create an egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall. (Nov. 16, 2016)
At yesterday’s General Assembly, Moment Magazine editor Nadine Epstein and former U.S.-Middle East policy analyst Aaron David Miller discussed how Trump the candidate will translate into Trump the foreign policy president. (Nov. 15, 2016)
On Tuesday, Netanyahu told participants at the annual convention of the Jewish Federations of North America that he is still committed to the Western Wall deal and begged them for more time. (Nov. 21, 2016)
President-elect Donald Trump gets at least one Supreme Court appointment after he takes the oath of office, one of its justices, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, said on Monday. Speaking to the Jewish Federations of North America's annual General Assembly, Ginsburg noted that some presidents have gone through their entire terms without having to fill any vacancies. (Nov. 15, 2016)
Jessica Cohen and Debbie Klein hope their efforts regarding Israel advocacy and education efforts in the Greater Cleveland community can be a model across the country. They were the lead-off speakers at “FEDovations – Successful Responses to BDS; Combatting Delegitimization of Israel” at the 2016 JFNA General Assembly. (Nov. 13, 2016)
The General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America got underway in Washington Sunday with Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, former UK chief rabbi, telling the 3,000 community activists and staff how the world has changed since he last addressed the G.A. in 2014. (Nov. 16, 2016)
During a post-election roundtable at the opening plenary of the annual General Assembly (GA) of the Jewish Federations of North America here on Sunday, Chuck Todd of NBC’s “Meet The Press” spoke of the “staggering” amount of anti-Semitism appearing on social media. (Nov. 16, 2016)