The Jewish actors: Marty Feldman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Feldman Feldman played the bumbling Igor, in this scene from ‘Young Frankenstein’ with Gene Wilder
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‘Well-preserved’ rare mammoth skull unearthed in Channel Islands puzzles scientists
The skull of a mammoth — possibly roaming the planet 13,000 years ago — was unearthed from an eroding stream in the Santa Rosa Island at Channel Islands National Park. Burrowed in the stream bank, the “exceptionally well-preserved fossil” with tusks is a rare find, especially because it would indicate the mammoth roamed the islands
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The World We Share, USAIsrael temporarily denies entry to 200 Muslims returning from hajj
Some 200 Muslim pilgrims returning from the hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia were stranded Friday at the Allenby border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan. Israel Radio said that the pilgrims were turned back due to a dispute over work hours between Israel’s Interior Ministry and its Administration of Border Crossings, Population and
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Middle EastPeres’s condition unchanged
Former president Shimon Peres’s condition unchanged, Peres’s bureau said Saturday evening, as the Jewish Sabbath ended. He is in serious but stable condition at the ICU in Sheba Hospital, at Tel Hashomer, in central Israel. On Sunday morning, he will undergo a CT scan, as doctors assess how to proceed with his treatment. He is
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Middle EastJewish community in Portugal enjoys renaissance
Every Friday at the start of the Jewish Sabbath Porto’s imposing synagogue positively buzzes with the sound of chatter – not just in Portuguese but also in English, French and Spanish. It’s in this unexpectedly animated atmosphere that the Jewish community in northern Portugal, wiped out in the 15th century, is currently undergoing a rebirth,
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InternationalJohnson and Stein won’t appear in first presidential debate
It’s official — Gary Johnson and Jill Stein failed to make the cut for the first presidential debate. The exclusion is a major blow to the already long-shot bids of Johnson, the Libertarian Party nominee, and Stein, the Green Party nominee. The debate would have offered Johnson and Stein the largest audiences of their campaigns.
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USATrump advisor: Aid to Israel won’t be limited by MOU
The United States will not be limited by the new $38 billion 10-year “memorandum of understanding” (MOU) in determining whether and how to increase security aid to Israel, Donald Trump”s Israel advisor told the Jewish Insider website on Thursday. “Under a Trump administration, the level of strategic and tactical cooperation between the two countries will
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Middle East, USAProtestors plan to meet pro-Arab flotilla with one of their own
A group of sailors from the South, including some who had been expelled from Gush Katif, are a planning a flotilla in reaction to the “Women”s Flotilla” of left-wing activists to depart this week from Barcelona, Spain for Gaza. The pro-Arab flotilla includes two boats on which hundreds of kilograms of humanitarian aid are packed.
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Middle EastNorth Korea ‘ready to attack’
North Korea’s Foreign Minister, Ri Yong Ho, said on Thursday the country was ready to launch another attack against the “provocations” of the United States, Reuters reported. The comments come after American bombers this week flew over South Korea in a show of solidarity with its ally after Pyongyang’s latest nuclear test. North Korea set
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International, USAWhat Trump has said through the years about where Obama was born
Donald Trump stood before television cameras on Friday and acknowledged a well-known fact that he had spent years denying: “President Barack Obama was born in the United States.” It will be up to voters to determine whether that one sentence can erase years of Trump’s lying about whether Obama was born an American citizen, a
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USARepublican senator: Israel made a mistake signing security deal
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who oversees the U.S. foreign aid budget, opined on Friday that Israel made a mistake by signing a new $38 billion security agreement with the Obama administration, The Associated Press reported. Graham said Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu could have gotten a better deal if he had waited until President
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Middle East, USATrump says Clinton bodyguards should disarm and ‘let’s see what happens to her’
MIAMI—Donald Trump suggested Friday that Hillary Clinton’s Secret Service bodyguards “should disarm immediately” because of her support for gun control, saying: “Let’s see what happens to her, OK? It would be very dangerous.” Trump’s comment, which the Clinton campaign called an invitation to commit violence against the Democratic presidential nominee, came at a Miami rally
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USAHillary Clinton: Donald Trump ‘owes the American people an apology’ for Obama birth claims
Hillary Clinton said Friday there’s no “erasing” the “birther” issue for Donald Trump, saying the GOP presidential nominee’s campaign was founded on the “outrageous lie” that President Obama was not born in the United States. “We know who Donald is. For five years, he has led the birther movement to delegitimize our first black president,”
Tel Aviv Diary: Obama Exacts Cold Revenge on Netanyahu
They say revenge is a dish best served cold. It’s clear that President Obama got his revenge on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week. Netanyahu was forced to hail the new memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between Washington and Jerusalem as a historic achievement for Israel. It is nominally the largest commitment of aid
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