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Topic: Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations

May 15, 2013
10:33 am

Budget advances with tourists’ VAT exemption intact

American Jewish group had requested Israel reconsider its plan to charge visitors with the value-added tax

May 12, 2013
1:26 am

Tourists ride Segways near the walls of Jerusalem's Old City, March 7, 2013 (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash)

US Jews call on Israel to rethink tax hike for tourists

Revoking VAT exemption may ’cause many to reconsider’ trips to the country, warns letter to PM from Conference of Presidents

By Times of Israel staff

May 5, 2013
5:09 pm

The latest group of actors visiting Israel with America's Voices in Israel (Courtesy AVI)

‘Scandal’ actors gush about their trip in Israel

‘At the end of dinner, I wished I was Jewish,’ says ‘Once Upon a Time’ star

By Jessica Steinberg

April 30, 2013
1:58 am

Kerry Washington, the star of political thriller 'Scandal' and the cast (Courtesy 'Scandal' Facebook page)

‘Scandal’ stars in Israel this week

America’s Voices in Israel, a division of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, brings group of actors to Holy Land

By Jessica Steinberg

April 29, 2013
11:07 am

US officials address inaugural Jewish security confab

Sessions deal with securing day schools and applying for federal funds to secure Jewish institutions

April 6, 2013
2:48 am

Klansmen exiting the Shelby County Courthouse in Memphis, Tennessee, moments before their rally, March 30, 2013. (photo credit: JTA/Blake Billings)

Jewish group exercises motto of ‘vigilance without panic’ at Memphis KKK rally

Response coordinated by Secure Community Network seen as national model, as US experiences resurgence of anti-government and white supremacist groups

By Ron Kampeas

March 23, 2013
12:55 am

A delegation of the Council for a Secure America meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month in Jerusalem. (Admon HaCohen, Courtesy of the Council for a Secure America via JTA)

US Jews weigh oil vs. environment in Mideast policy

A new alliance between Israel advocates and energy companies raises questions about how to weaken reliance on foreign suppliers

By Ron Kampeas

March 22, 2013
4:48 am

Rabbi Herschel Schachter conducts services for Holocaust survivors on the Jewish festival of Shavuot, in the Buchenwald concentration camp, May 16, 1945. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)

First rabbi to enter liberated Buchenwald dies

Herschel Schachter, a former chairman of the Conference of Presidents, was 95

By Joe Winkler

March 19, 2013
10:38 pm

Gilad Shalit with his father, Noam, on the day of his release from captivity (photo credit: Ariel Hermoni/ Defense Ministry/Flash90)

Gilad Shalit in letter to Obama: ‘Free Pollard’

Moses call to ‘Let my people go’ echoes in every Jew, writes former Hamas captive; Pollard’s wife addresses hundreds in protest outside Peres’s residence; US Jewish leaders also issue plea

By Aaron Kalman and AP

February 17, 2013
3:06 pm

Malcolm Hoenlein (Photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Jewish leader raps US for taking aircraft carrier out of Gulf

Iran could see move as ‘a diminution’ of the American commitment to keep all options on the table, warns Malcolm Hoenlein in an unusually robust critique

By David Horovitz

February 15, 2013
12:30 am

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat speaking at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations at the Inbal Hotel, Jerusalem, Thursday (photo credit: Flash90)

Jerusalem mayor: No split city has ever worked

Nir Barkat tells the Conference of Presidents that construction in the capital’s eastern areas is in everyone’s interests

By Philip Podolsky

February 12, 2013
11:18 pm

Lapid calls for peace talks, but says Olmert went too far

Yesh Atid head tells US Jewish leaders he’ll promote equality for all religious denominations, says ‘no one can claim ownership’ over God

By Raphael Ahren

February 12, 2013
5:36 pm

Itamar Rabinovich, center, speaking at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Feb 12, 2012 (photo credit: Avi Hayun)

Former Israeli envoy to US: Hagel a ‘bad’ choice

Regardless of his stance on Israel, Obama defense pick’s positions on Iran undermine the credible threat of a military strike, Itamar Rabinovich says

By Raphael Ahren

February 12, 2013
2:06 pm

Yair Shamir speaks during a conference of the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) in Jerusalem on October 31, 2012. (photo credit: Oren Nahshon/Flash90)

‘North Korea doesn’t give a damn about the West’

Yair Shamir, a likely minister in the next government, says Iran is watching the West’s lack of response to Pyongyang’s nuclear test

By Raphael Ahren

February 11, 2013
11:22 pm

Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Conference of Presidents, Monday (photo credit: Flash90)

Netanyahu: Iran shortening the time it will take to cross ‘red line’

Faster centrifuges are speeding Tehran’s bomb drive, PM tells US Jewish leaders; affirms support for demilitarized Palestinian state

By Aaron Kalman

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The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Topic: Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations

Budget advances with tourists’ VAT exemption intact

American Jewish group had requested Israel reconsider its plan to charge visitors with the value-added tax

US Jews call on Israel to rethink tax hike for tourists

Revoking VAT exemption may ’cause many to reconsider’ trips to the country, warns letter to PM from Conference of Presidents

‘Scandal’ actors gush about their trip in Israel

‘At the end of dinner, I wished I was Jewish,’ says ‘Once Upon a Time’ star

‘Scandal’ stars in Israel this week

America’s Voices in Israel, a division of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, brings group of actors to Holy Land

US officials address inaugural Jewish security confab

Sessions deal with securing day schools and applying for federal funds to secure Jewish institutions

Jewish group exercises motto of ‘vigilance without panic’ at Memphis KKK rally

Response coordinated by Secure Community Network seen as national model, as US experiences resurgence of anti-government and white supremacist groups

US Jews weigh oil vs. environment in Mideast policy

A new alliance between Israel advocates and energy companies raises questions about how to weaken reliance on foreign suppliers

First rabbi to enter liberated Buchenwald dies

Herschel Schachter, a former chairman of the Conference of Presidents, was 95

Gilad Shalit in letter to Obama: ‘Free Pollard’

Moses call to ‘Let my people go’ echoes in every Jew, writes former Hamas captive; Pollard’s wife addresses hundreds in protest outside Peres’s residence; US Jewish leaders also issue plea

Jewish leader raps US for taking aircraft carrier out of Gulf

Iran could see move as ‘a diminution’ of the American commitment to keep all options on the table, warns Malcolm Hoenlein in an unusually robust critique

Jerusalem mayor: No split city has ever worked

Nir Barkat tells the Conference of Presidents that construction in the capital’s eastern areas is in everyone’s interests

Lapid calls for peace talks, but says Olmert went too far

Yesh Atid head tells US Jewish leaders he’ll promote equality for all religious denominations, says ‘no one can claim ownership’ over God

Former Israeli envoy to US: Hagel a ‘bad’ choice

Regardless of his stance on Israel, Obama defense pick’s positions on Iran undermine the credible threat of a military strike, Itamar Rabinovich says

‘North Korea doesn’t give a damn about the West’

Yair Shamir, a likely minister in the next government, says Iran is watching the West’s lack of response to Pyongyang’s nuclear test

Netanyahu: Iran shortening the time it will take to cross ‘red line’

Faster centrifuges are speeding Tehran’s bomb drive, PM tells US Jewish leaders; affirms support for demilitarized Palestinian state

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