By David Anderson From The Moderate Voice NEW YORK — With Brexit blowing up in the Brits’ faces followed by an orange punishment emanating from Washington, there’s world-wide alarm about this global move to the right. We pay a lot of attention to hard right hooligans like Hungary’s Viktor Orban, Poland’s Jaroslaw Kaczynski, and […]
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International, USAUnemployment, lack of upward mobility and fear of street violence among reasons for rapid increase of Brazilian Jews making aliyah By Luis Roiz SAO PAULO, Brazil — Over the last three years, Brazil’s usually lighthearted Carnival culture has been darkened by a political and economic crisis that has turned into the longest recession in the
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International, Middle EastThe mother of the 32-year-old woman who was killed Saturday in a car-ramming attack during violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, has thanked President Trump for offering words of comfort and condemning the violence. “Thank you, President Trump, for those words of comfort and for denouncing those who promote violence and hatred,” Susan Bro, mother of
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USANorth Korea said Tuesday that its military presented leader Kim Jong Un with plans to launch missiles into waters near Guam and “wring the windpipes of the Yankees” by creating “enveloping fire” near the key US military hub in the Pacific. The comments, while typically belligerent, are significant because they also appeared to signal a
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International, USABy Nia Heard-Garris, Instructor, Division of Academic General Pediatrics, Mary Ann & J. Milburn Smith Child Health Research Program; Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago; Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University. Cara McClure of Birmingham, Ala. cries Sunday in Charlottesville, Va. at a solidarity meeting. AP Photo/Brynn
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USAA civil rights group has accused President Donald Trump of creating an “incubator of hate” after a Holocaust memorial in Boston was vandalized for the second time in two months on Monday. Police in Boston arrested a 17-year-old male suspect on Monday evening after being told by witnesses that he had thrown a rock and
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Jewish History, USATalia Friedman, a nurse in her 20s, to keep her American citizenship; ‘Our entire family is bursting with pride,’ envoy says By Raphael Ahren From left to right: Tammy, David and Talia Friedman (screen shot Twitter) The daughter of US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman is immigrating to Israel this week, The Times of Israel
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Middle East, USAATLANTA — The head of the VA’s national health care enrollment office in Atlanta exchanged a series of unprofessional and racially charged instant messages with another VA employee — raising new doubts about the leadership of the enrollment system that serves millions of veterans nationwide. The exchanges between Angel Lawrence, the director of the VA’s
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USARALEIGH, N.C.—The Raleigh man behind the Twitter account @YesYoureRacist said Monday that since publishing photos of torch-carrying white supremacist protesters in Charlottesville Saturday, he has received remarkable support �� but also death threats. Logan Smith, who is communications director for Progress NC Action, says the account had about 65,000 followers Saturday morning. On Monday afternoon,
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USAANNAPOLIS, Md. — In the wake of a violent white supremacist rally in neighboring Virginia, Maryland House Speaker Michael E. Busch said Monday it’s time to take down his state’s most prominent Confederate-era monument. Busch said the statue of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Roger B. Taney — author of the infamous 1857 Dred Scott
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USAVisitors to Arosa’s Aparthaus Paradies shocked to discover anti-Semitic notices, which have since been removed By Times of Israel staff A sign put up at a Swiss hotel calling on Jewish guests to shower before going swimming (Courtesy) A hotel in Switzerland has put up signs telling “Jewish guests” to shower before swimming, sparking outrage
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By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Sunday night, the organizations Indivisible, Together We Will and the Interfaith Council organized a Unity Vigil in response to the White Supremacist rally in Charlotteville, Virginia. One woman, Hether Heyer was murdered and nineteen others were injured by a terrorist who rammed his car into a crowd of
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastSAN DIEGO (SDJW)– In reaction to the recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia, the Jewish Federation of San Diego County joins with the Anti-Defamation League, San Diego Rabbinical Association, Liechtag Foundation, and other Jewish communal organizations to sponsor an anti-hate rally at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 15 at the Lawrence Family JCC. Flyers sent by email
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San Diego County, USAThe son of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro threatened to attack the White House with rifles if U.S. President Donald Trump sends his army. Nicolás Maduro Guerra responded to the messages of Trump, where he affirmed that he will not rule out a “military option” for Venezuela. “Venezuela is not far away and people are suffering,
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