Decades later, it’s hard to remember how battered Bill Clinton was after the 1992 primaries. He had secured the nomination but his candidacy was marred by his efforts to avoid serving in Vietnam and allegations, later confirmed, of extramarital affairs. It looked like he was heading for a joyless convention in New York. But events […]
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USAA passionate Hillary Clinton supporter, Eva Longoria took the Democratic National Convention stage Monday night in Philadelphia to introduce New Jersey Senator Cory Booker and directly address Donald Trump, taking aim at his June 2015 remarks that Mexicans immigrants are “bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” “I’m from a small town in South Texas,
PHILADELPHIA — Hillary Clinton made American history Tuesday night, becoming the first woman ever nominated to lead a major-party ticket into the fall campaign for president. Cheered instead of booed, as she was Monday, Clinton officially claimed the Democratic nomination after a suspense-less 90-minute roll call vote at the party’s national convention. The result was
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USAAmong the various reasons I won’t be addressing the Green Party of Canada’s upcoming convention is the fact that I was invited by the party to do so on a Saturday – a surprising (and some would say insensitive) invitation for a Jewish organization. As the chief executive officer of Jewish National Fund (JNF) Canada,
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International, Middle EastThe U.S. Department of Education has issued guidelines aimed at preventing schools from discriminating against the growing numbers of students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. In a letter to school districts and a “know your rights” document to be posted on its website Tuesday, the department said schools must obey existing civil rights law to
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — These are not good days for the IDF. All seems well on matters of intelligence and operations, but two of its soldiers are in the headlines. One young man is on trial for the unnecessary killing of a Palestinian, already inert and seemingly near death. A decorated soldier, with the
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastOf the thousands of Syrian immigrants who have found asylum from the civil war currently plaguing Syria, it appears that there is at least one Jewish voice among them. The Swedish The Local Voices interviewed Alonov, 25, a Jewish Syrian who has sought asylum in Sweden since 2014, about his experience growing up as a
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International, Middle EastFlorida Gov. Rick Scott fended off potential calls for gun control Monday in the wake of a shooting at a Fort Myers nightclub that killed two teenage boys and injured 20 others. “I support the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment has never shot anybody. Evil does this,” Mr. Scott, a Republican, said at a news
WASHINGTON — Democrats meeting in Philadelphia have made history, voting to approve a national platform that endorses a “pathway” for the legalization of marijuana. When Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders boasted Monday night that he had helped create “the most progressive platform in the history of the Democratic Party,” he made no mention of the
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USAORLANDO, Fla. — The mother of U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson’s children alleges she was the victim of two decades of domestic abuse at the hands of the congressman, according to a report in Politico, including four incidents in Orange County and Virginia where authorities were called. The Florida Democrat’s attorney, Mark NeJame, strongly denied the
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USAWikileaks founder Julian Assange denounced the Democratic Party’s claims that its emails were published as part of a Donald Trump-Vladimir Putin plot to make their party look bad, calling them both groundless and an attempt to create a distraction. In an interview with NBC News, Mr. Assange said that while “we have not disclosed our
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International, USANEW YORK — CNN had the largest prime-time audience on the first night of the 2016 Democratic National Convention, but all three cable news networks saw ratings rise over 2012 levels. Around 29 million viewers watched the speakers featured in the 10 to 11:30 p.m. EDT time slot at the convention in Philadelphia, where Hillary
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USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – One of the joys of convention watching on television is seeing the traditional roll call when, before announcing their votes, delegates from the U.S. States and Territories get to do a little bragging about where they are from. This year at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, where
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Donald H. Harrison, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Jewish Family Service of San Diego’s (JFS) popular University City Older Adult Center, formerly housed at Congregation Beth Israel in UTC, will soon find a new home inside the agency’s headquarters at the Joan & Irwin Jacobs Campus, located at 8788 Balboa Avenue in Kearny Mesa. “We are incredibly thankful
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