From the front steps of Rio de Janeiro’s Municipal Theater, the ballet company danced, and opera singers belted out the strident “Carmina Burana.” It was last month, and the show was an artistic public protest. The performers, all state employees, haven’t been paid for weeks and won’t be getting paychecks until Dec. 5. The same […]
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International, Sports & CompetitionsJewish rights group calls Minnesota congressman’s implication that US policy is dictated by Israeli interests ‘disqualifying’ for top Democratic post By Eric Cortellessa Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minnesota, speaks during the first day of the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 25, 2016. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) WASHINGTON — Hours after the Anti-Defamation League
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USALevi Strauss & Co. is asking its customers to continue trying on jeans, while also requesting they leave their guns at home—even where local laws allow them to carry their firearms in public. Related: Uber bans drivers and passengers from carrying guns The risky move—seemingly taking a side on a partisan and controversial issue—comes from
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USADefense Ministry denies knowledge of revelation, which comes as police probe possible conflict of interest by PM’s personal lawyer who represented ThyssenKrupp in Israel By Times of Israel staff Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu aboard the new submarine ‘Rahav’ at the Israeli navy base in Haifa, on January 12, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO) An Iranian government company
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Middle EastA handout image provided by the Royal Household Bureau shows Thailand’s new King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun paying respect to a portrait of the late Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Thai Queen Sirikit during the accession to the throne proclamation ceremony at the Ambara Villa of the Dusit Palace in Bangkok, Thailand, December 1, 2016. [Photo/IC]
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InternationalKANSAS CITY, Mo. — Donald Trump’s campaign manager said Friday that a source of the Republican’s unfounded allegation that millions voted illegally in the 2016 presidential election is Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach. Kellyanne Conway, the Trump-Pence campaign manager who has continued to help the president-elect during the transition, made the comment on ABC’s
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USABy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — The motto on a bumper sticker in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn — “Stamp Out Lashon Hara” — seemed like a wonderful idea. Curbing our “evil tongue” — ridding ourselves of the inclination, if not the desire, to gossip about, slander, defame, disparage, ridicule, belittle or simply embarrass another person — was and is certainly a
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NEW YORK (Press Release)–Rabbi Irving Elson, a veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and as a Navy captain the highest-ranking Jewish chaplain in the U.S. military when he retired in September, has become the new director of JWB Jewish Chaplains Council. The nearly 100-year-old organization is the only agency that endorses Jewish chaplains
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Jewish Religion, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSEET ZION, Israel — It came as a bit of a shock to realize that I’ve been living in or near Jerusalem for over fifty years – the best part of my life, in fact. I still love London, my birthplace, but there’s no escaping the fact that I don’t really know
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Travel and FoodBy Cynthia Citron BEVERLY HILLS, California — At first he was seen as a joke. Then, as he continued his campaign of insults and threats, outrageous proposals, and the promise to make his country great again, his countrymen rallied around him and Hitler became the elected dictator of Germany. At the same time, one of the
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By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — A couple of weeks ago, a member of our congregation reported an extremely unpleasant incident at the La Mesa Costco. He wears a kippah and tzitzit in public which makes him an easily identified Jew. One of the shoppers accosted him and began making anti-Semitic comments, specifically accusing him of
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County, USAAs he kicked off his post-election thank-you tour in Cincinnati, President-elect Donald Trump announced – sort of – that he was naming U.S. Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis as defense secretary. But he told the crowd and the TV cameras not to let it out of the room. “We are going to appoint ‘Mad
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USAWashington (dpa) – Buzz Aldrin, the second person to walk on the moon, was in a stable condition in a New Zealand hospital Friday after being evacuated from the South Pole, tour operator White Desert said. “He currently has fluid in his lungs but is responding well to antibiotics and being kept for observation,” White
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International, Travel and Food, USAWASHINGTON — The internet was created in America. But is it safe in America? Some people don’t think so. A nonprofit group based in San Francisco has decided to “Trump-proof” its massive open-for-all internet library by storing it in Canada as well as the United States. The group, the Internet Archive, which claims to save
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