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- ↑ "Jewish Policy Center". The Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation. November 24, 2020. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
- ↑ JPC - ABOUT
- ↑ Bryen, Shoshana (December 18, 2020). "Morocco and Israel: Why now? - Opinion". Newsweek. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
- ↑ Homegrown Pundit Appointed to Think Tank, Jewish Exponent, March 08, 2007, by Bryan Schwartzman
- ↑ Listing of Jewish Policy Center events
- ↑ Conservative Jews lobby for school-choice programs: Say movement will help battle 'continuity crisis', by Carol Innerst, the Washington Times , March 19, 1997
- ↑ "In a Time of Dissent, Jewish Conservatives Close Ranks", by Nathaniel Popper, Forward , April 30, 2004
- ↑ "A New Anti-Semitism Takes Root on American campuses", Jewish Exponent, September 13, 2007