Donald H. Harrison

At least 80 dead as truck slams into crowd of revelers in Nice, France, attack

A truck loaded with weapons barreled through a crowd of Bastille Day revelers gathered Thursday to watch a fireworks display in the southern French resort city of Nice, fatally crushing people for more than a mile in what officials described as the latest in a string of deadly terrorist attacks to hit Europe. At least

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International

Many Arabs give Palestine lip service, engage with Israel

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The New Middle East isn’t the spread of equality, women’s rights, and democracy dreamed and promoted by Barack Obama, Thomas Friedman, and other politically correct westerners. It is, rather, a confused jumble of deadly conflicts among Muslims, shifting postures toward Israel, and a lack of symmetry between what is said

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Conversion by Rabbi Lookstein should be honored

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — One of my favorite concepts in logic is the reductio ad absurdum (Latin: “reduction to the absurd”) argument, which is a logical method of argument that proves the falsity of a premise  by following its implications to a logical but absurd conclusion. The latest news regards the nullification

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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi

Syria’s Assad says Russia ‘never’ spoke of departure

(AFP) Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Thursday he has never faced pressure from Russia to step aside, as US Secretary of State John Kerry headed to Moscow seeking to revive stalled peace efforts. Speaking to NBC News in Damascus, Assad insisted his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had never raised the

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International, Middle East

Who cut the Crown Heights eruv?

Orthodox Jewish residents of the Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn were shocked to discover in recent days that a newly established eruv had been destroyed. The eruv itself had elicited a greal of controversy, dividing the neighborhoods Chabad population with the growing modern Orthodox community. In late June, local Chabad rabbis issued an edict declaring

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Jewish Religion, USA

Bernie Holds Onto His Email List

Bernie Sanders may have endorsed rival Hillary Clinton for president, but he’s not ready to give up quite yet. Looking for proof? Sanders, the Vermont senator who proved particularly popular among young voters in the Democratic primary, has not given Clinton’s campaign his highly desirable email list, an NBC producer tweeted Wednesday afternoon. Sanders raised

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USA