By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Despite frequent protestations to the contrary (perhaps more often by the Americans than by the Israelis) that the relationship between the United States and the Jewish state is stronger than ever, the general impression here is different. This may be due to the widespread impression that President Obama and […]
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International, Middle East, USAWashington (dpa) – US President Barack Obama offered a resounding endorsement of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as he began campaigning Tuesday on her behalf. “I’m here today because I believe in Hillary Clinton, and I want you to help elect her to be the next president of the United States of America,” he told
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USAGONDAR, Ethiopia — When the congregation at the HaTikvah Synagogue in this northern Ethiopian town rises to sing Israel’s national anthem at the end of every service, the mournful melody is transformed into a rousing chant, a determined shout to the heavens — and to the doors of Israel’s parliament, the Knesset — that their
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International, Middle EastOn its own initiative, the Magic Sunrise Hotel in Eilat, part of the Fattal Hotel Management Ltd. chain, is calling Jewish customers scheduled to vacation at the hotel this weekend, informing them that there will be “many Arabs” in the hotel on the weekend, and suggesting that they cancel or postpone their vacation at no
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — An Internet friend sent me an item from the Wall Street Journal, entitled “Fleeing the Czars, Defying Gravity: A Fourth of July Immigrant Tale” It tells the story of Jews who entered the US as poor immigrants in 1900, and a grandson who soared above the earth as an astronaut. I
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International, Middle East, USAThe father of a mentally ill Israeli man held captive by Hamas in Gaza called for other families whose loved ones or their loved ones’ remains are in Gaza to cease their campaigns to pressure the government. Sha’ban al-Sayed, whose son Hisham wandered into Gaza in April 2015 and has not been heard from since,
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Middle EastDhammananda, a 72-year-old Thai woman, is forbidden from hugging her sons. She’s never been able to chase her giggling grandchildren around the room. Both acts are forbidden by the strict Buddhist precepts that monks must follow. Dhammananda is a self-described “rare species.” She’s a monk. She’s also a mom. And in the eyes of her
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InternationalWASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton and her team clearly skirted the most basic rules for the handling of classified information, and their actions as outlined Tuesday by the director of the FBI went well beyond carelessness to an open flouting of known practices, security experts inside and outside the administration said Tuesday. Experts were especially disdainful
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USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─The FBI report on Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified information on her private email server has reinforced the perception that she is less trustworthy than Donald Trump. Spun another way, she should be compared to a veteran physician who has been unsuccessfully sued for malpractice during the course of a long
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireAlmost 30,000 foreign extremists are currently in Syria and Iraq and, as radical Islamist groups continue to lose ground to the governments of both countries, the threat of them returning to their home countries to carry out attacks increases, a top U.N. official warned on Tuesday. “The number of foreign terrorist fighters is very high”
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Middle EastThe brouhaha surrounding the recognition of Ivanka Trump’s conversion to Judaism by Israel may be nearing it’s end. Trump, the daughter of US presidential candidate Donald Trump, converted to Judaism under the auspices of Orthodox Rabbi Haskel Lookstein. Recently, it was announced that a Rabbinical Court in Israel had ruled that Rabbi Lookstein’s conversions are
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USAThe Democratic Party platform drafted in St. Louis is an excellent start in bringing forth policies that will help end the 40-year decline of the American middle class. These initiatives, if implemented, will create millions of good-paying jobs, significantly improve health care and reverse the dangerous trend in this country toward an oligarchic form of
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USAWith a few notable exceptions, French politicians warned Britain against quitting the European Union. But since UK voters chose otherwise on June 23, all have scrambled to spin the fallout in their favour ahead of critical elections in 2017. Reflecting on Britain’s uneasy relationship with the European Union, the late Michel Rocard, a former French
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Internationalhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lewis Lewis is the barber shop assistant
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