Hillary Clinton strode on stage in Philadelphia Thursday night and showed herself ready to win the presidency. In her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, she presented herself less in her historic role as the first woman presidential candidate of a major party and more on her merits as the best candidate for the […]
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USAGrowing up as a child of privilege in a predominantly white community, my parents always taught me that all people were equal. Yet I noticed that adults around me sometimes told racist jokes. The bad guys on TV shows often were black. Most of the black people in my life were either my housekeeper or
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USAThe ironclad U.S. commitment to South Korea’s security is a longstanding tradition that transcends party lines and benefits the U.S.’ own national security, the White House said Thursday. White House press secretary Josh Earnest made the remark as Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has suggested he would pull American troops from South Korean unless the
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International, USAThe Republican National Convention was, despite conservative objections to the contrary, a dark affair. But to say that is not to be critical. To say that is to be practical, clear-eyed and observant. Donald Trump earned his nomination by playing on the justified fears of his audience — Americans who had been served a steady
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USANEW YORK — Early ratings for Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech Thursday at the Democratic National Convention show that it will fall short of Donald Trump’s audience from July 22. The 10 p.m. ET slot that featured Hillary Clinton’s speech, a biographical video and an introduction by Clinton’s daughter, Chelsea, averaged around 28 million viewers on
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SAN DIEGO — License plate maven Melanie Rubin spotted this plate bearing the Yiddish word for “belly button.” Not only is San Diego a naval town; it’s a navel town apparently.
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & SatirePHILADELPHIA — Hillary Clinton kicked off her general election campaign Friday in Philadelphia by comparing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to a king, while she argued the historic nature of her candidacy showed the goodness and potential of America. “Nobody who looked like me was thought to be possible to run for president” when the
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USAMembers of the burial society that arranged the funeral of former Minister Yosef (Tommy) Lapid, who died in 2008, revealed this week that they said a secret “Kaddish” prayer over his body, despite his son (now MK) Yair Lapid’s request that they not do so during the funeral. The Kaddish prayer is traditionally said over
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastFormer Wall Street banker Pedro Pablo Kuczynski was inaugurated as Peru’s new president Thursday, vowing to kick-start the economy and unite a country torn by a photo-finish election. The 77-year-old center-right economist, who is the son of a Jewish doctor who fled Nazi Germany, extended an olive branch to defeated rival Keiko Fujimori’s party, which
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International“Chacham” Yom Tov Yedid, the oldest Rabbi in the Syrian Jewish community in the US, died on Wednesday night in New York. He was 93. In his younger years, Rabbi Yedid served as the chief Rabbi of the famed and ancient Jewish community in Aleppo Syria, while it was still thriving and growing, before pogroms
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Jewish History, Middle East, Obituaries & memorialsThere are adults in this presidential race and there are children, and this week’s Democratic National Convention did an excellent job of separating the women from the boys. There was a constant drumbeat in the lead-up to Hillary Clinton’s Thursday night speech, and that drumbeat, which had to pound loudly in Donald Trump’s ears, was:
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USAPHILADELPHIA – The city of Philadelphia insists it’s not a sanctuary for illegal immigrants, but a Justice Department report says otherwise – and now the city that just hosted the Democratic National Convention is in danger of losing millions of dollars in federal funding for breaking the law. The Justice inspector general said the number
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USAIn an interview with Le Monde, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls speaks candidly about his country’s mounting problem with radical Islamic terrorism. After the latest terror attack on French soil, in which two terrorists later claimed by ISIS beheaded priest Jacques Hamel in a church near Rouen in Normandy, Valls says it has become clear
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International
By David Pratt KINGSTON, Ontario, Canada — When Elie Wiesel died on July 2, a voice was stilled that had spoken for the voiceless millions who perished in the Nazi concentration camps. In May 1944, Wiesel was deported from Romania to Auschwitz at the age of fifteen, and was liberated from Buchenwald eleven months later.
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