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Anti-Israel amendment to Democratic party platform voted down

July 10, 2016

The US Democratic party’s slide toward an increasingly anti-Israel position, led by Senator Bernie Sanders, has been halted, at least temporarily. During a meeting of the Democratic party drafting committee Saturday, supporters of Senator Sanders proposed an amendment to the Democratic party platform which would urge an “end to occupation and illegal settlements,” in Judea […]

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Middle East, USA

Georgia Needs Western Help to Stave Off Putin

July 10, 2016

Rolling tanks and firing artillery recently shattered a delicate truce between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The latest flare-up of this decades-old conflict claimed more than a hundred lives—and tensions remain sky-high despite a cease-fire. Meanwhile, the terrorist group ISIS orchestrated two deadly attacks in the Russian republic of Dagestan. Russia itself continues to menace the Republic

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International, USA

Trump Considering Retired General As Running Mate

July 10, 2016

Presumptive Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump is considering retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn as a potential vice-presidential running mate, according to multiple reports. Trump’s potential vice president list includes Indiana Governor Mike Pence, former House speaker Newt Gingrich and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Many of Trump’s associates have reportedly urged the real estate mogul

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USA

Hamas: No negotiations on return of soldier’s bodies

July 10, 2016

Former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister and senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh denied on Friday reports that the Hamas regime in Gaza had opened negotiations with Israel over the return of the bodies of two IDF soldiers murdered in 2014. The bodies of Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul, who were killed by Hamas terrorists in 2014,

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Middle East

Newt Gingrich acknowledges he’s being vetted for Trump veep; ‘no idea’ if he’ll be picked

July 10, 2016

LE BOURGET, France – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says he has “no idea” if presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is going to pick him as a running mate, but he knows he’s being vetted closely and a decision is coming soon. Mr. Gingrich, who appeared here on the outskirts of Paris Saturday to

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USA

Islamic Jihad terrorist killed in northern Gaza tunnel cave-in

July 10, 2016

A tunnel collapse in the Gaza Strip on Sunday killed a member of the terror group Islamic Jihad’s armed wing, it said, in the latest in a series of such incidents. The collapse occurred in the northern Gaza Strip, the Al-Quds Brigades said in a statement, without providing further details. It identified the terrorist killed

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Middle East

Protest of shooting death of Philando Castile shuts down I-94

July 9, 2016

MINNEAPOLIS — Marchers protesting the Wednesday night shooting death of Philando Castile by police caused an hours-long shutdown of part of Interstate 94 west of downtown St. Paul, starting just before nightfall Saturday, with dozens of police officers decked out in riot gear and using tear gas and smoke bombs to try to disperse the

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USA

Netanyahu is collecting opponents

July 9, 2016

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Several aspiring politicians who’d like to replace Binyamin Netanyahu as prime minister are assuming/hoping that the present coalition won’t last its full term. Despite the recent addition of Avigdor Lieberman and his party in order to strengthen the government majority (from 61-59 to 66-54) things remain unstable. The issue over non-Orthodox

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Middle East

Iran vows to continue developing ballistic missiles

July 9, 2016

A defiant Iran declared on Saturday it will continue its ballistic missile program, even after UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said that the missile tests are not in the spirit of the country’s landmark nuclear deal with world powers, The Associated Press reports. “Iran will strongly continue its missile program based on its own defense and

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International, Middle East, USA

The Jewish actors: Anne Meara

July 9, 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Meara Meara plays the adoring fan of Donnie and Marie Osmond

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Travel and Food

Spanish leftist party publishes anti-Semitic Obama cartoon

July 9, 2016

The Spanish government and Jewish groups on Friday blasted a far-left party for posting an anti-Semitic cartoon protest against President Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to the country. The criticism comes after the Madrid branch of the United Left coalition, tweeted a cartoon depicting a thick-lipped Obama hugging an Orthodox Jew wearing a kippa emblazoned with

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International, USA

Jewish couple in Morocco found murdered, dismembered

July 9, 2016

An elderly Jewish couple in Morocco were murdered in their Casablanca home last week. The killer then dismembered their bodies and disposed of the parts in different areas across the city. According to Moroccan media, the couple’s gardener was arrested by police and has confessed to the crime, which he said he committed due to

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Middle East

Russia-US row ends in tit-for-tat expulsions of diplomats

July 9, 2016

In a tit for tat expulsion of diplomats reminiscent of the Cold War, Russia said on Saturday it had expelled two U.S. Embassy staff members after a similar ‘unfriendly’ move by Washington in June. The United States expelled two Russian officials in response to what it described as a Russian policeman’s attack on a U.S.

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International, USA

Jewish Republicans ‘morally obligated’ to reject Trump over anti-semitism, activists say

July 9, 2016

Activists are urging the Republican Jewish Coalition to abandon its support for presidential hopeful Donald Trump as the presumptive GOP nominee prepares to secure his party’s backing this month in Cleveland. Social justice group Bend the Arc launched a petition last week calling on Republican Jewish Coalition Director Matt Brooks to walk back the RJC’s

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USA

Anti-Israel amendment to Democratic party platform voted down

Georgia Needs Western Help to Stave Off Putin

Trump Considering Retired General As Running Mate

Hamas: No negotiations on return of soldier’s bodies

Newt Gingrich acknowledges he’s being vetted for Trump veep; ‘no idea’ if he’ll be picked

Islamic Jihad terrorist killed in northern Gaza tunnel cave-in

Protest of shooting death of Philando Castile shuts down I-94

Netanyahu is collecting opponents

Iran vows to continue developing ballistic missiles

The Jewish actors: Anne Meara

Spanish leftist party publishes anti-Semitic Obama cartoon

Jewish couple in Morocco found murdered, dismembered

Russia-US row ends in tit-for-tat expulsions of diplomats

Jewish Republicans ‘morally obligated’ to reject Trump over anti-semitism, activists say

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