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Terraces of the Bahai Gardens in Haifa overlooking the Mediterranean Sea (Oren Fixler/Flash90)
January 28, 2017, 11:59 am
US suspends immigration program helping non-Muslim Iranians
27-year-old initiative originally approved by Congress to help Jews in the former Soviet Union was aiding Iranian Jews, Christians and Baha’i who are at risk
By George Jahn and Alicia A. Caldwell
June 28, 2013, 4:49 am
Senate passes immigration bill with provisions for religious refugees
Jewish groups support the reform, praise its passage; law would ease employment of Israeli emissaries in the US
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker (left) in 2009. Booker is the former student president of Boteach's Oxford University L'Chaim Society. (Photo credit: Courtesy shmuley.com)
June 6, 2013, 11:23 pm
Major pro-Israel group endorses Booker for Senate
New Jersey-based NORPAC backs Newark Mayor’s bid for late Jewish senator’s seat
The casket of US Sen. Frank Lautenberg is transferred to an Amtrak train en route to Washington D.C. during a Color Guard ceremony at the Frank R. Lautenberg Rail Station on Wednesday in Secaucus, N.J. (photo credit: AP/Frank Franklin II)
June 6, 2013, 1:53 am
Mourners take rail booster Lautenberg on one last ride
Jewish senator, who died on Monday at 89, remembered by vice president and others as someone who never gave up on things he believed in
In this 2012 file photo, US Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., walks in the Capitol after the final votes before a five-week recess. (photo credit: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
June 5, 2013, 10:38 am
Biden to eulogize Lautenberg at NY funeral
At service Wednesday, the five-term senator will be remembered for championing anti-smoking legislation and mass transit projects
US Secretary of State John Kerry at a news conference at the State Department in Washington, in June, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Jacquelyn Martin)
June 4, 2013, 1:40 am
‘Ma nishtana?’ Kerry asks US Jews ahead of new peace push
Before departing for his fifth trip to Israel in four months, secretary tells Jewish group this process is different from all others — because time is running out
By Ben Zehavi
Sen. Frank Lautenberg attending a Holocaust memorial ceremony in the US Capitol Rotunda, May 1, 2008. (photo credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty)
June 3, 2013, 10:46 pm
Jewish community mourns passing of Sen. Frank Lautenberg, a ‘true friend’
The 89-year-old senator, son of Ellis Island immigrants from Eastern Europe and the Senate’s last remaining WWII veteran, died Monday morning
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Sen. Frank Lautenberg, the oldest member of the Senate, speaks in his hometown of Paterson, New Jersey, where he said he planned to retire at the end of his current term. (photo credit: AP/Mel Evans)
June 3, 2013, 6:37 pm
Sen. Frank Lautenberg, crusader for Soviet Jews, dies at 89
Last World War II vet in the Senate and longtime Jewish community leader succumbs to complications of pneumonia
By AP and JTA
Iranian Jews eligible to immigrate to the US because of the Lautenberg Amendment arrive at Los Angeles International Airport in 2009. (Courtesy of HIAS via JTA)
March 20, 2013, 12:28 am
Lifeline for US law that aided Soviet, now Iranian Jews
Jewish groups are among those advocating a stronger status for effort to shelter persecuted religious minorities
By Ron Kampeas
Texas Sen. John Cornyn coordinated his opposition to Sen. Chuck Hagel's nomination with Pastor John Hagee, the founder of Christians United For Israel. (Gage Skidmore/CreativeCommons via JTA)
January 31, 2013, 12:40 am
Christian Zionists spearhead fight against Hagel
Pro-Israel evangelicals mobilize to sink GOP senator’s bid to become US defense secretary
By Ron Kampeas
President Barack Obama and his choice for defense secretary, former Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel, left, and Leon Panetta in the East Room of the White House, January 7, 2013 (photo credit: Charles Dharapak/AP)
January 25, 2013, 2:42 am
After Iran clarification, Democrats rally behind Hagel
Senator Frank Lautenberg confident defense secretary nominee ‘firmly committed to ensuring a strong US-Israel relationship’
By Donna Cassata
In addition to highlighting President Obama's support for Israel, Aaron Keyak, right, and his Hub co-workers capitalized on US Jews' overwhelming agreement with Democrats on social issues. (Courtesy of Aaron Keyak via JTA)
December 4, 2012, 6:16 am
Outstaffed and outspent, tiny team nailed down Jewish vote for Obama
With media savvy and an insider understanding of the community’s key concerns, ‘the Hub’ helped Democratic incumbent stay in the White House
By Phil Jacobs
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