By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — “The Wild East” is a concept that is vague and messy in a number of ways. Location is the most prominent vagueness. Where does the Wild East begin? On the eastern border of what was Israel prior to the 1967 war? With or without the expansion of Jerusalem legislated by […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastWashington (dpa) – Donald Trump felt he should have been Time magazine’s 2015 Person of the Year, even before the first votes were cast in the Republican Party’s nominating process. Instead, the magazine named German Chancellor Angela Merkel last year for her leadership in Europe’s refugee crisis. “I told you @TIME Magazine would never pick
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USAWASHINGTON – It took nearly three years for Congress to pass the 21st Century Cures Act. The next question is: How long will it take the Food and Drug Administration to implement it? The legislation, designed to accelerate the introduction of new medical treatments by speeding up some FDA approval processes and boosting federal funding,
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump has made many promises on immigration, including a new one Wednesday to “work something out” for the so-called Dreamers — young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children. “We’re going to work something out that’s going to make people happy and proud,” Trump said in a Time magazine interview.
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International, USADonald Trump started a bit of a feud with Boeing on Tuesday when he declared “cancel order!” for the new Air Force One plane. He claimed the airplane would cost upward of $4 billion. However, the company said in a statement that Trump’s numbers were way off. The Hill reported that the contract was closer
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USAPHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia judge has denied Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein’s request for a forensic audit of voting machines used in the city. Common Pleas Court Judge Abbe Fletman, in a written opinion issued Wednesday, said Stein “is mistaken” in her claim that the state Election Code gives her a right to the
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USADETROIT — After a lawyer urged him not to stick taxpayers with a $5 million recount tab, a federal judge on Wednesday dissolved his earlier decision and halted the hand recount of 4.8 million ballots that were cast for president in Michigan. The controversial issue, however, is far from over as an appeal will follow.
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USAWASHINGTON, Dec. 7, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — AJC is urging members of the U.S. House of Representatives to adopt the bipartisan Anti-Semitism Awareness Act of 2016. The Senate has already passed the measure, and once the House does so it can be delivered to President Obama for his signature before Congress recesses. “The Anti-Semitism Awareness Act
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USABy Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON, Massachusetts — On a November night in 2004, almost four hundred students at Columbia University sat crowded into the theater of the University’s Lerner Hall to watch a troubling 25-minute film that was finally being released to the public, “Columbia Unbecoming,” produced by Dr. Charles Jacobs and Avi Goldwasser.
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Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO — Q: Can you please tell me how I can lower my 2016 tax bill before it’s too late? A: I’ll try. By planning before January 1st, you might be able to reduce your 2016 tax bill and plan ahead for 2017. Your tax planning will need to address
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Sheryl Rowling, Travel and FoodPresident-elect Donald Trump is expected to name Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, according to multiple reports. The pick of Mr. Pruitt, who has sued the EPA multiple times to challenge President Obama’s regulatory agenda, is guaranteed to thrill conservatives who think the agency has overstepped its authority. But the
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USAThe latest findings in Earth science are brought to you by ancient astronomers who observed the heavens as much as 2,700 years ago. Thanks to hundreds of records of lunar and solar eclipses carved in clay tablets and written into dynastic histories, modern scientists have determined that the amount of time it takes for Earth
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Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We ShareA whole new kind of ‘breaking up’ around the holidays NASA/John Sonntag A rare ice crack not formed by that squirrel from the Ice Age movies An iceberg the size of Delaware is starting to break away from Antarctica. It began with a small crack, but has now grown 70 miles long and more than
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International, The World We ShareInterior Minister Aryeh Deri addressed a special conference of 100 Sephardic rabbis from around the world in the Knesset Tuesday. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein also participated in the conference. Deri criticized the Reform Movement during his speech. “I am asked, ‘Why fight for Jewish causes? Why don’t you make a
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