With only two days to go before the US presidential elections, candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are polling just a few points apart in key states. But observers and activists say Trump’s weak ground game may cost him the election. National polls give a snapshot of how people are planning to vote at a […]
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Did You Ever Have the Chance to Marry an American Multimillionaire? by Dora Klinova; DK Corporation; (c) 2016: ISBN 9781533-137852; 245 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — This autobiographical work was fictionalized enough to be classified as a novel, but it closely follows author Dora Klinova’s own progress in San Diego in the
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego CountyTwo days before the presidential election in the United States, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed the weekly cabinet meeting, emphasizing that regardless of the results, America and Israel would remain close allies. “This week elections will be held in the United States. Whoever is elected, the new president, I am convinced that US-Israel relations,
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Middle East, USAJew in the City, a small site that works to fight stereotypes, has reported an unusual incident: After an Arab woman collapsed on a trans-Atlantic flight, two hasidic Jews came to the rescue and administered first aid. The two hasidim, Beirish Shonbrun and Avraham Meir Miller, both of Kiryat Yoel in New York, were on
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Middle EastAs the elections to determine the next US President quickly approach, Ivanka Trump, the daughter of Republican nominee Donald Trump, could be seen last night with her husband visiting the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in New York. According to Kikar Shabbat, there was no press accompanying the couple their visit was documented by others
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USAIn recent months, the organization “Tzav 1,” which works to ensure that religious IDF soldiers are able to maintain a religious lifestyle while in the Army, has noted a growing number of complaints from soldiers regarding serious problems in the “kashrut” [kosher status] of kitchens on Army bases. All IDF kitchens are officially supposed to
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Middle EastOn Friday, HBO released a 37-minute long interview between Bill Maher and President Barack Obama. The piece, which aired less than a week before the 2016 Presidential Election, was the culmination of a months-long campaign for Maher to have the president on his program. Over the years, Maher has generally praised the president with some
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USARALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory was in a fight for his political life. His ardent defense of House Bill 2, a law deemed so discriminatory by some sports leagues that they pulled more than a dozen championship events from the state, had left him with strongly unfavorable ratings from moderates. With a
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USAVeteran pollster John Zogby sent out an “Uh-oh” alert Saturday night noting that heading into Sunday, two key voting groups that had shifted toward Barack Obama by the Saturday before the 2012 election – and that gave him his landslide victory – were not moving Democrat Hillary Clinton’s way four days before Tuesday’s election. “Donald
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USAProtesters have gathered in Istanbul to support the Cumhuriyet journalists arrested in what critics say is another attempt to silence opponents of the Turkish government. The secularist newspaper is one of the few remaining media outlets still critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Founded in 1924, it is the oldest newspaper in Turkey. Turkey’s main
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International, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Prediction is risky, and dangerous to one’s reputation. The most likely, and the safest prediction, is to begin with the present, and project more of the same. That’s what is evident in the land across the sea. Analysts used to say that the Obama administration was the nastiest in terms
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Ira Sharkansky, USAManila (dpa) – A town mayor detained on illegal drugs charges and a fellow inmate imprisoned in a provincial jail in the Philippines were killed Saturday in a shootout with police, officials said. Police conducted a raid on the jail in the city of Baybay in the province of Leyte after receiving a tip that
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InternationalDemocratic nominee Hillary Clinton dipped below 270 electoral votes in CNN’s electoral map Friday as Republican nominee Donald Trump makes a late surge for the White House. The most recent national polls have Trump within one or two points of Clinton, and well within the margin of error. Fox News released a poll Friday, with
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USARepublican presidential nominee Donald Trump was rushed off stage by the Secret Service at a rally in Nevada on Saturday night in a tense campaign moment just days before the 2016 presidential election. Secret Service agents rush Donald Trump off stage at Nevada rally. https://t.co/G4isSw41BA https://t.co/daEjQ9NHNz — CNN (@CNN) November 6, 2016 Trump later returned