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Hundreds will die, missiles will rain everywhere in all-out war, IDF predicts

Hundreds of Israelis killed in thousands of rocket attacks — that is the army’s Home Front Command’s estimation for what to expect in a future war, according to figures released ahead of a nationwide preparedness drill set for next week. Beginning next week, the Home Front Command will kick off “Standing Firm,” a preparedness drill […]

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Middle East

Peres’ condition sees ‘real improvement’ but still serious

Former Israeli president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres saw “real improvement” today (Thursday) but remained in serious condition after the 93-year-old suffered a major stroke on Tuesday, his doctor said. “There is another real improvement today,” Peres’s personal physician and son-in-law Rafi Walden told media, describing his condition as serious but stable. He

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Middle East

Trump Says He’d Sever Ties to Company if Elected

Donald Trump said on Thursday he “would absolutely sever” ties to the Trump Organization if he were elected president. The Republican presidential nominee was responding to questions about a Newsweek article on his company and its foreign connections during a phone-in appearance on the television program Fox and Friends. Newsweek’s Kurt Eichenwald reported on the

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Trudy Rubin: Trump’s praise for Putin shows just how dangerous he would be as president

A vacation on Ireland’s west coast should have provided relief from the depressing realities of the U.S. election season. But it’s hard to escape when every Irishman or woman you meet asks the same question, differing only in the choice of adjective: “You Americans aren’t really going to elect that awful (or dangerous or bigoted)

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Missouri lawmakers expand gun rights, override veto of ‘stand your ground’ legislation

Missouri’s Republican-led legislature has significantly expanded gun rights in the state, establishing a public “stand your ground” right and allowing for permitless concealed carry of firearms. Lawmakers overrode Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto of the sweeping gun rights law late Wednesday. The legislation does away with training and permit requirements for concealed carry in the

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‘Just Kidding’: New TV series ‘Downtown Abie’

By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK – Downtown Abie, a series about the shifting fortunes and intriguing rise, fall and recovery of a conflicted Jewish man and his family, will debut this October on public television stations throughout the nation. It is just “a happy coincidence,” its producers say, that the show’s title so closely resembles

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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Hundreds of Israeli intellectuals to world Jewry: ‘End occupation for Israel’s sake’

Hundreds of Israeli artists and intellectuals urged world Jewry to challenge Israeli policy toward Palestinians, in an open letter released Wednesday. “We call upon Jews around the world to join with Israeli partners for coordinated action to end the occupation and build a new future, for the sake of the State of Israel and the

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Dahleen Glanton: Trump has given ‘deplorables’ a place to feel special

You would have thought that by now, Donald Trump’s deplorables would have gotten over Hillary Clinton’s diss. But they can’t let it go. Apparently, “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic” deplorables are better at talking smack than taking it. Clinton’s comment about putting half of Trump’s supporters into “the basket of deplorables” isn’t even harsh. I

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