By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — I just faced my own mortality head on. A few days ago I met my new twin great-grandsons—all of four months old—and realized I will not know them as teenagers! They will have to see me on old DVDs which may in fact not be playable by […]
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Natasha Josefowitz, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationRussian President Vladimir Putin phoned Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to voice his support following an attempted armed coup by a faction of the Turkish military over the weekend, the Kremlin reported. Putin and Erdogan put a seven-month-long rift behind them last month, when the Turkish leader apologised for his forces downing a Russian jet
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International, Middle EastBATON ROUGE, La. — The gunman who shot and killed three officers here, wounding three more, was deliberately attacking law enforcement, officials said Monday. “We do believe that he was targeting police officers” in the shooting, said Major M. Doug Cain, spokesman for the Louisiana State Police. “This incident was an ambush.” The gunman was
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USATurkey has always had a little bit of a problem with the truth. For decades, the Turkish government has denied that it executed the first real genocide in modern times when it eliminated the Christian Armenian population that had been living within the territories of the Ottoman Empire. According to Samantha Power in her magisterial
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International, Middle East, USACLEVELAND — House Republicans hold the biggest majority since the Great Depression. But the lawmaker in charge of keeping all those seats, Oregon Rep. Greg Walden, said Monday that the next election is about “whether you want to continue things the way they are or whether you’re ready for real change.” The contradiction is one
JERUSALEM (WJC) –Hours before the lethal terrorist outrage in Nice, in a speech to the Israel Council on Foreign Relations (ICFR), which operates under the auspices of the World Jewish Congress, the European Commission’s coordinator on combating anti-Semitism, Katharina von Schnurbein, said that although there had been a spike of anti-Semitic incidents recently, especially in France, this
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International, Middle EastBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (WJC)–Parliamentarians and 250 experts from 17 countries in the region came to the Argentine capital for the Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism, a biennial gathering for assessing the state of anti-Semitism globally and formulating effective forms of societal and governmental response co-organized by the World Jewish Congress’ Latin American chapter, the Latin American
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InternationalIt should come as little surprise that a failed coup in Israel’s new best friend Turkey over the weekend dominates the print media landscape in Hebrew Sunday morning, but what’s less obvious is that all three would essentially come away with the same story: The coup was doomed to fail and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Middle East(AFP) France was set to hold a minute’s silence on Monday to honour the 84 victims of the Nice truck attack, but a period of national mourning was overshadowed by bickering politicians. Church bells will toll across the country, and the country will fall silent at midday, a now grimly familiar ritual after the third
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InternationalHundreds of people gathered at the Netzer Hazani synagogue Monday afternoon for the funeral of 20-year-old IDF Sergeant Shlomo Rindenow, a lone soldier from the US who died in a hand grenade explosion Sunday. Rindenow was killed along with First Sergeant Hussam Tapesh, who was buried earlier Sunday in his hometown of Beit Jan in
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Middle EastA 77-year woman who spent Bastille Day last Thursday in the city of Nice with her sister died on Monday, becoming the first Jewish fatality from the massive terror attack that ravaged the southern French town. Her death brings the total death count to 85, excluding the terrorist, who was shot dead by police in
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InternationalTurkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, the former ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan whose followers Turkey blames for this weekend’s failed coup, said on Sunday that he would obey any extradition ruling from the United States. At the same time, reported Reuters, he repeated his previous assertions that Erdogan had staged the putsch. “I am not
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Middle East, USAPalestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday urged the African Union member states and its officials to support the French initiative to organize an international peace conference aimed at reaching a solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the Ma’an news agency reports. In a speech at the African Union”s 27th summit held in Kigali, Rwanda,
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International, Middle EastCLEVELAND – Accusations of racism, race baiting and use of racial dog whistles are age-old staples of American politics, but these recriminations have reached a fever pitch this year against Donald Trump. The likely Republican presidential nominee’s blunt rhetoric about illegal immigration and the threat of radical Islamic terrorism, as well as his clumsy handling