The white supremacist forces arrayed in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend — the largest gathering of its sort in at least a generation — represented a new incarnation of the white supremacy movement. Old-guard groups like the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nations and the Nazi skinheads, which had long stood at the center of […]
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USAWASHINGTON — The chief executive of pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. publicly resigned from a White House manufacturing council on Monday, declaring he felt “a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism.” The move by Kenneth Frazier, one of corporate America’s leading African American executives, came after President Donald Trump was criticized for
By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under multiple investigations that may lead to criminal charges. Echoing Donald Trump, Netanyahu has called the charges “fake news” and the investigations “a witch hunt.” What else has Netanyahu said in the past that seems to echo Donald Trump? A. “Will we
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Middle East, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAMembers of the Jewish community in Monsey, New York are up in arms over the alleged mistreatment of a three-year-old haredi child who was reportedly thrown into the back of a police squad car after being left outside of his home. The incident occurred last Friday afternoon when the three-and-a-half-year-old boy returned home from summer
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USAIsrael’s security cabinet toured the South Hebron Hills last week alongside Prime Minister Netanyahu, raising fears that plans are underway to finish the separation fence in southern Judea. The right-wing Jewish Home is opposing the move, fearing the the fence would isolate the Eztion Bloc and turn it over to Palestinian rule. “It’s absolutely clear
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Middle EastThe Jewish community in London is in shock following the double-murder Friday night of a Jewish woman and her daughter in their home. Leah Cohen, 66, and Hannah Cohen, 33, were found dead in their home in the Golders Green neighborhood of London, an enclave of Orthodox Jews, after the two suffered multiple stab wounds.
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InternationalKushner, Greenblatt and Powell are coming to ‘restart the peace process’ — even as the leaders of all sides face unprecedented crises of political legitimacy By Avi Issacharoff US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman (second left) and US President Donald Trump’s special envoys Jared Kushner (left) and Jason Greenblatt (second right) meet with Prime Minister
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — CIA Director Mike Pompeo said Sunday that President Donald Trump would consider it “unacceptable” for North Korea to possess a nuclear-armed ballistic missile capable of striking the United States — a development believed to be soon within Pyongyang’s reach. But the intelligence chief also said he saw no imminent threat of North Korea
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International, USAWASHINGTON — Religious and civil rights leaders called on President Donald Trump to fire White House advisers Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka, whose association with the white-supremacist “alt-right” movement has come under heightened scrutiny after Saturday’s violent clash in Charlottesville, Va. “Supporters of white supremacists, violent extremism, racial bigotry and neo-Nazis should not serve in
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USAANCHORAGE, Alaska—Alaska’s largest newspaper filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Saturday evening and new owners — an Alaska family that made its fortune hauling freight and tourists on the Yukon River and its tributaries, and a company that owns rural newspapers in the state — have been lined up. Alaska Dispatch News owner Alice Rogoff,
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USABEIRUT—For the second time a matter of weeks, thousands of rebel fighters and civilian refugees who had found a haven in Lebanon are being sent back to Syria to live in what is being billed as a “safe zone” in the war-torn country. Depending on the point of view, the transfers are humanitarian gestures to
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We recently had the pleasure of hosting a family of Japanese friends on our balcony. Along with the view, extending 35 miles to the lights of Amman, in contrast with their Tokyo view to the nearby apartment house, we talked at length, as we have done in the past, about
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By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — “Jews will not replace us!” This was one of the slogans chanted by the Alt-Right in Charlottesville, VA yesterday. A more diverse group gathered in opposition to the blend of Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists at Emancipation Park. (As far as I can tell, the only difference between them
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Eric George Tauber, Jewish History, USAA video of a police officer beating a 25-year-old man, Richard Hubbard III, in Euclid, Ohio, for not heeding his orders has gone viral. Filmed by one of the witnesses, Lashaunda Malone, the video was posted on Facebook on Saturday morning. It had garnered more than 1 million views and was shared more than 25,000
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