The fight against one of the leading cause of death in the United States, Alzheimer's Disease, an ailment plaguing over five million Americans including one in eight persons over 65 and almost half of those over 85, requires a continued, vigorous national effort, said Congressman Chris Smith (Robbinsville, NJ-04), co-founder the Congressional Task Force on Alzheimer’s Disease.
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Congressman Chris Smith, a prominent human rights leader in Congress and an original cosponsor of the landmark 1998 International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) that requires the State Department to issue the annual report, welcomed the 2010 report as the first step of accountability for governments that fail to uphold the human right to religious freedom.
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U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, a leading human rights lawmaker in the U.S. Congress, welcomed the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, a democratic activist in Burma who has been under house arrest for the last seven years.
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Rep. Chris Smith, a leading human rights lawmaker in the U.S. Congress, is offering a keynote address this week at an international conference attended by parliamentarians from over 50 countries working together to strengthen global efforts to combat anti-Semitism.
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Congressman Chris Smith attended the groundbreaking of a new security gate yesterday at Naval Weapons Station Earle. Smith (NJ-04, Robbinsville) helped secure funding for the gate.
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The suffering of human trafficking victims in New Jersey, around the country and the world was the focus today on the 10th anniversary of the enactment of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-04), author of the law, held a press conference today at the New Jersey State House with Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, members of the New Jersey Statewide Human Trafficking Task Force and women with personal stories about trafficking. The Lt. Governor presented Smith with a letter fr...
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From the Oct. 28, 2010 edition of the Lakewood Scoop: The nightmare began a few weeks ago, when Faigy Friedlander of Lakewood found out that her Chosson Yosef David Michael- a UK and Israeli citizen – was denied a Visa to enter the U.S. where they were to marry. With their wedding just weeks away, the Chosson went to the Embassy to set up an emergency meeting, but to no avail. There was no way that he was getting his Visa to attend his own wedding. In fact, the Chosson was told by the Embassy to...
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A senior/community center which enables seniors citizens from across Roebling Village and Florence Township to gather under a single roof was officially opened this weekend, hours before it hosted the New Jersey premiere of a play about John and Washington Roebling, the engineers of the Brooklyn Bridge.
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Photographic, written and hand-drawn personal accounts of genocides from the Warsaw Ghetto and Darfur were on display at the grand opening of an exhibition at Mercer County Community College (MCCC) that will run through Nov. 5.
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