By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — The story of Noah and the ark is one of my favorites. After the flood, God decided that God would never destroy the world again by flooding because “yetzer lev ha-adam ra mi-ne’urav”-human beings, by their very nature, have an inclination to do evil. God realized that humans are […]
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Jewish ReligionSAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Following one of the most bitter, divisive and exhausting presidential races in the history of the United States, the opportunity to celebrate a well-deserved Sabbath as a global community will take place on the very first weekend after Election Day on the Shabbat of November 11th and 12th, the Third Annual
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County, USAEvangelical group urges members of the faith to ‘refresh diplomats’ memory’ on Judaism and Christianity’s historical ties to Jerusalem By Times of Israel staff (illustrative photo credit: image of New Testament/Shutterstock) A group of evangelical Christians has called upon members of the faith to mail bibles to UNESCO leadership in Paris in response to the
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International, Middle East, USAWINTERVILLE, N.C. — In the final days of the 2016 presidential race, Hillary Clinton’s campaign has a consistent theme: Donald Trump. There was a point at which Clinton’s advisers had envisioned a more positive ending, but in the final days of a tight race, the Democratic nominee has backed away from emphasizing a sunny message
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USATEHRAN, Iran —In an annual rite of anti-Americanism in Iran, thousands gathered Thursday at the site of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran to mark the anniversary of its takeover by student activists in 1979. The demonstrators brought by buses to the former embassy complex included young and old, university students, military staff and employees
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Middle East, USAAt least 239 migrants, believed to be from West Africa, have died in two shipwrecks off Libya, a spokesman for the United Nations migration agency, said on Thursday. One group of migrants, including about 20 women and six children, set off in a rubber dinghy from Libya around 3 am on Wednesday, but their boat
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International, Middle EastMINNEAPOLIS — Vandals defaced a sign promoting the University of Minnesota’s Muslim Students Association, scrawling “ISIS” over a hand-painted mural on the Washington Avenue Bridge, which connects the east and west banks of the Twin Cities campus. The graffiti was discovered early Thursday morning and documented on social media, prompting the Minnesota chapter of the
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON — Two polls released Thursday indicated that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has expanded his lead in Texas with just five days to go. A joint poll from NBC News, The Wall Street Journal and Marist College put Trump up over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton 49 percent to 40 percent among likely voters in
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USAMIAMI — Banging his fist and pounding his lectern, President Barack Obama tried Thursday in Miami to conjure a little last-minute political magic for Hillary Clinton, the sort of excitement that twice elected a president of hope who was nevertheless unable to prevent a 2016 presidential race of gloom. “It’s about what can be achieved
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USAWASHINGTON — Even as Donald Trump assails political correctness, insults opponents in harsh late-night tweets and draws bipartisan rebukes for racially tinged insults, his wife vowed Thursday that she would devote her energy as first lady to reducing online bullying and promoting more civil discourse in American society. “Our culture has become too mean and
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USAA New York elementary school has canceled its traditional mock presidential election after kids chanted “Trump” and repeated “negative rhetoric about minorities,” according to the school principal. Children at Jericho Elementary School in Centereach will be voting for their favorite school lunch instead of their favorite presidential candidate after their mock campaign season got too
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USACHICAGO — After waiting since 1908 for a World Series title, the potential for misery became even more acute for the Cubs when they failed to close out a victory after needing only four outs to fulfill their long-awaited quest. From manager Joe Maddon’s use of the pitching staff to Javier Baez’s failed one-out bunt
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International, Sports & Competitions, USAElection tension appears to be intensifying across the US. A historic black church in Mississippi was burned and spray painted with “ Vote Trump” graffiti only days before the poll. With the the racist movement the Ku Klux Klan now declaring for Donald Trump, President Obama used it to attack the Republican candidate: “If you
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USAMost people are aware of the nauseating fact that in American politics today, money talks far louder than actual policy. Nevertheless, it is always valuable to hear from an insider’s perspective the level of depravity our Democracy is willing to sink for a few extra millions. Congressman Alan Grayson may have failed to win Florida’s