Donald H. Harrison

Heidi Stevens: Hillary Clinton’s message to 15-year-old girl was confusing — and spot on

When a 15-year-old girl asked Hillary Clinton how she would heal the damage caused by Donald Trump’s comments about women, Clinton’s answer was a little confusing, sort of contradictory … and completely accurate. “I see with my own eyes the damage Donald Trump does when he talks about women and how they look,” the girl, […]

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USA

Clinton camp: Florida should give voters more days to register due to Hurricane Matthew

MIAMI — Hillary Clinton’s campaign chief urged Florida on Thursday to extend its voter-registration deadline because of Hurricane Matthew. Tuesday is last day for new voters to sign up ahead of the Nov. 8 presidential election. The storm has forced political groups, many of them Democratic-leaning, to cancel planned registration drives in the last, frenzied

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Donald Trump on his caustic comments about women: It was ‘entertainment’

Donald Trump has a problem appealing to female voters. So, when asked this week by a Nevada television station about some of his disparaging remarks, he had a terse reply. “A lot of that was done for the purpose of entertainment,” Trump said. “There’s nobody that has more respect for women than I do.” Following

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Music legends unite for Desert Trip festival in California

Los Angeles (dpa) – Music icons Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Roger Waters, Neil Young, The Who and the Rolling Stones will perform starting Friday at the Desert Trip festival in California, the first-ever modern-day music festival to feature some of the top acts of the 1970s on one stage. The festival is being staged over

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA

Rudy Giuliani: From ‘America’s mayor’ to out-Trumping Trump

WASHINGTON — Rudy Giuliani is doing what many thought to be impossible: He’s out-Trumping Donald Trump. The former New York mayor is becoming a regular source of over-the-top statements and slams about Democrats, often amplifying and even surpassing Trump in grabbing headlines, if also sometimes confounding fact-checkers — all in the name of promoting Trump.

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Bill Cosby seeks to have sexual assault charges dropped, citing prejudice and bias

Bill Cosby’s lawyers have launched their most comprehensive effort to date to have the sexual assault charges against him dropped, arguing that various factors “created a perfect storm of prejudice, bias and delay” that requires the dismissal of the charges against the entertainer. The motion, filed Thursday in the Pennsylvania court where Cosby is facing

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USA

88-year-old finally becomes a bar mitzvah

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Seventy-five years later, Lazar Abramovitch finally had his bar mitzvah on Thursday, Oct. 6, at a special ceremony held at Jewish Family Service’s Jacobs Family Campus. Abramovitch, 88, had hoped to celebrate the advent of Jewish adulthood on his 13th birthday, but the German Nazi invasion of the

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County

Intercepted at sea, women’s boat to Gaza docks quietly in Israel

A boat full of women activists which was headed for the Gaza Strip before being intercepted and commandeered by the Israeli Navy on Wednesday has docked at the Israeli port of Ashdod without incident. The activists were transferred to authorities “for further processing,” the Israeli military said in a statement late Wednesday. The boat carrying

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International, Middle East

The Berkeley Intifada

Close For a Palestinian insurgent supposedly determined to see Israel destroyed, Paul Hadweh looks remarkably like his fellow students at the University of California, Berkeley. I met the 22-year-old senior on the rooftop of a campus building, overlooking the expanse of San Francisco Bay, which glimmered in the pure light of late afternoon. He wore

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Jewish History, Middle East, USA

Mexico reaping rewards from tourism strategy, diplomat says

By Dana Al Emam – Oct 06,2016 – Last updated at Oct 06,2016 AMMAN — Partnerships between public and private tourism institutions in setting and implementing clear plans are key to boosting the sector’s performance, according to Mexico’s Ambassador to Jordan Enrique Rojo Stein. The diplomat reviewed his country’s new policy to enhance the sector’s

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