Donald H. Harrison

Obama’s campaign mission: Protect legacy, pummel GOP – oh, and elect Hillary Clinton

MIAMI — Something is missing from President Barack Obama’s list. “Progress is on the ballot,” he said at a campaign rally here last week. “Tolerance is on the ballot. Justice is on the ballot. Equality is on the ballot. Our democracy is on the ballot!” It’s not as if Obama forgot that Hillary Clinton, the […]

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USA

Breitbart News To Hire Conservative Conspiracy Theorist Curt Schilling

The “alt-right” website Breitbart News is reportedly set to announce that they have hired former ESPN analyst Curt Schilling to host a conservative talk radio show. Schilling was criticized by the Anti-Defamation League on Friday for “positioning Israel as a partisan issue” after he pushed the anti-Semitic trope that American Jewish people should all support

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Middle East, USA

In California bus crash tragedy, echoes of one of New York City’s deadliest crashes

LOS ANGELES — In 2011, a tour bus returning from a casino overturned on a highway in the Bronx and rammed into a support pole on a sign, killing 15 people and injuring several others. Five years later, another tour bus returning from a casino crashed — this one on a Southern California freeway. The

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USA

Herb Kent, legendary Chicago radio personality, dies at 88

CHICAGO — Chicago radio legend Herb Kent, the longest-running DJ in the history of radio and a fixture on local airwaves for more than 70 years, died Saturday. He was 88. Kent’s death was announced Sunday by executives at V103, where Kent worked for the past three decades. Also known as “The Cool Gent,” “King

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA

Fans are mourning the loss of one of the most beloved pop stars of the early ’60s

MINNEAPOLIS — Pop idol Bobby Vee, the boyish, grinning 1960s singer whose career was born when he took a Midwestern stage as a teenager to fill in after the 1959 plane crash that killed rock ‘n’ roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, has died. He was 73. Vee, whose

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA

Hillary Clinton’s top techie in State Dept pleads the Fifth

John Bentel, the man who oversaw then-Secretary Hillary Clinton’s technology at the State Department, refused to answer questions about his knowledge of her activities in a sworn deposition Monday, according to Judicial Watch. Mr. Bentel had protected Mrs. Clinton during her time in office, assuring lower-level employees that her use of a secret email account

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USA

Novel mixes modern story into ancient Chanukah tale

Dreidels on the Brain by Joel Ben Izzy; Penguin Young Readers Group; © 2016; 318 pages, $17.99. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – With Chanukah soon approaching, this is an enjoyable school boy’s story about Jewish holidays, magic performances, not knowing that a girl you like reciprocates your crush, an ailing father, and a

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison

Bill Clinton: Jews should understand danger of Trump better than anyone

Canvassing in Florida, former president warns Jewish audience against ‘threat to fundamental character of the nation, future of our children and grandchildren’ By Eric Cortellessa In this July 26, 2016 file photo, former president Bill Clinton speaks during the second day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) WASHINGTON — Former

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Middle East, USA

UNESCO to vote on yet another anti-Israel resolution

After passing a resolution denying any Jewish connection to Jerusalem, the UN”s cultural agency UNESCO is planning to vote on another similar anti-Israel resolution. Arab states on Saturday presented a watered down version of a new resolution denying the connection between Judaism and the Temple Mount. A vote on the latest resolution is expected at

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International, Middle East