Jonathan Pollard, the American Jew who spent three decades behind bars for spying on the US for Israel, said it would “take a miracle” for him to be able to live in the Jewish state. Talking to reporter Amir Bar Shalom of Israel’s Channel 1 television on the street in New York in an impromptu […]
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Middle East, USAWhat critics and fans are calling Leonard Cohen‘s darkest song yet has turned out to be a bright spot in a Montreal cantor’s career. “You Want It Darker” — the first track released this week from the 82-year-old Cohen’s new album of the same name — features the voice of Cantor Gideon Zelermyer of Congregation
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International, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsPresident Obama emailed Hillary Clinton using a pseudonym while she served as his secretary of state, according to FBI documents released Friday. The president’s previously unreported use of a pen name is referenced in notes from federal investigators’ April 5, 2016 interview with Huma Abedin, one of Mrs. Clinton’s closest aides, contained within 189 pages
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USAWashington (dpa) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump threatened Saturday to bring Gennifer Flowers, who once had an affair with former president Bill Clinton, to a debate with Hillary Clinton. Trump made the threat after fellow businessman Mark Cuban, a vocal Trump opponent and Clinton supporter, said he would be in the front row for
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By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — Moliere is smiling. The multi-talented actor and playwright, Herbert Siguenza, has breathed new life into his play, the Imaginary Invalid. Manifest Destinitis is set two centuries later in 19th century “old or Alta California.” The play is also brimming with clever and scathing 21st century social commentary on
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Mimi Pollack, Theatre, Film & BroadcastLegend has it that Henry Adams, the grandson and great-grandson of Presidents John and John Quincy Adams, was walking out of church one Sunday morning when his minister asked him if he had read Charles Darwin’s On the Origins of Species. “Yes Father,” he answered, “cover to cover.” “Did it affect your faith in the
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USABURLINGTON, Skagit County — Five people were shot — four fatally — Friday night in the Cascade Mall in Burlington, and officers fanned out searching for the shooter, according to the Washington State Patrol. The four dead are all female, State Patrol Sgt. Mark Francis said. One man in critical condition was flown to Harborview
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USAEvery year, National Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15. While the “month” spans through two calendar months, it is observed to recognize the Hispanic and Latino American heritage, culture and contributions. One thing that sets Latinos and Hispanics aside from everyone else, is our food, extremely savory and fulfilling, but
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Trivia, Humor & SatireIt is the latest attraction on Washington’s National Mall, known as “America’s Front Yard”. And with racial tensions high in the United States, the new National Museum of African American History and Culture opens on Saturday, at a critical time. The trials and tribulations of the African American experience are told as well as the
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USALOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles Dodgers rolled out the blue carpet for Vin Scully, literally. They rolled out the dignitaries too, and the videos, and even a symphony orchestra. At its heart, however, the Vin Scully tribute Friday was the world’s biggest thank-you card, come to life. The greatest broadcaster in baseball history came to say
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Sports & Competitions, USAOn September 15, at sunset in Arizona, a crowd gathered at the corner of a Chevron gas station called the Mesa Star. Like every year since 2002, Rana Sodhi hosted a memorial here for his brother, Balbir Singh Sodhi. Balbir was shot while planting flowers in front of his store on September 15, 2001 —
The Goldfinch by Donna Tratt; Little, Brown; © 2013 By Dorothea Shefer MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — I finished ploughing through this tome and had to immediately go back and read the first few pages, as the book starts by plunging the reader into a strange, surrealistic almost nightmarish scenario of a person (man? woman?) constrained
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By Eva Trieger VISTA, California — Who would’ve thought The New Yorker cartoon could have inspired a quirky television show that would capture the American youth’s attention for two full years, and recapture those “aging” youths forty years later? Charles Addams, that’s who! The artist is best known for his macabre sketches and dark humor. But
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San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastThis 8-year-old girl may be small, but she’s as kind as she is cute and the internet has become enthralled by this video of her good deeds. Ella Scott was eating dinner with her father Eddie at the Lallapalooza restaurant in Monterey, California when she saw a homeless man sitting outside on a bench. After
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