Tony Blair has said the British people “have a right to change their mind” about Brexit as he urges the government to prepare for EU departure with calm statesmanship. Writing in The Daily Telegraph in the aftermath of Britain’s vote to leave the EU last week, former British Prime Minister Blair said: “Above all, Britain […]
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InternationalTen years since it was first created, the UN Human Rights Council is facing a stark moment of truth. The credibility of the world’s top human rights body, which was set up to ensure that it is able to effectively address human rights violations without being undermined by geopolitics and competing national interests, is being
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International, Middle EastRepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Thursday reiterated his support for Israel and said that, as President, he would “protect Israel 100 percent”. Trump’s comments, quoted by The Washington Free Beacon, came in response to a question by an anti-Israel man who attended his New Hampshire rally. The man took the microphone during the question-and-answer
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Middle East, USAPresumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has condemned the “heinous murder” of a 13-year-old Israeli girl stabbed to death in her sleep by a Palestinian terrorist Thursday. “I am shocked by the heinous murder of 13 year old Hallel Yaffa Ariel, who was attacked by a Palestinian terrorist while she was sleeping in her bedroom,”
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Middle East, USAThe U.S. accepted more than 2,300 Syrian refugees in June alone, sending the fiscal year total soaring past the 5,000 mark and putting the government on track to surpass President Obama’s goal of 10,000 by the end of September, but raising questions about screening out potential terrorists. June’s numbers set a monthly record for the
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Friday she will remove herself from the decision-making process about whether to seek charges in the investigation involving Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while serving as secretary of state. The decision comes after Lynch came under fire for having a private meeting early this week
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USABy Morton Klein and Daniel Mandel NEW YORK — One day not perhaps not far off, there will be another war between Israel and Hizballah, the Iranian terrorist proxy in Lebanon. One might assume that any future clash will be similar to past ones –– Israel struck by disruptive and occasionally lethal rocket attacks, and
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By Chana Miller PETACH TIKVAH, Israel – “Good morning” Simple words. We say them every day. Most people are hardly aware of the greeting by neighbors or fellow workers. But for a small group of women at Ezer Mizion, the words mean everything. They represent the Good Morning program, a visual art workshop for cancer
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From Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce on Thursday joined the national business community in criticizing Donald Trump‘s protectionist trade policies. “The trade policies proposed by Donald Trump are unrealistic, counter-intuitive, and would be damaging to our economy and jobs,” said Jerry Sanders, the chamber CEO and a
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San Diego County, USABerlin Jewish leader: European rabbis should ‘take action’ against EU breakup BERLIN (JNS.org) — Chabad-Lubavitch movement Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, rabbi of the Jewish Community of Berlin, has called on European rabbis to “help save the European Union” after the United Kingdom voted to exit the 28-country bloc. Teichtal made his comments in a meeting with
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InternationalEditor’s Note: Following is a new humor column by Joel H. Cohen. Nothing herein should be taken seriously. Such a theme park! By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — A theme park devoted to Jewish customs, rituals, cooking, heroes and heroines is due to open in Boca Raton, Florida this fall, Disney and Universal,
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & SatireIDF adopts new mobile phone for transferring classified information (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) After more than a decade in which the Mountain Rose served as the secure operational mobile network of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the Israeli military is poised to adopt a new device from Motorola that will allow the transfer of
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Middle Easthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Klugman In this clip, a young Jack Klugman explains how a switchblade knife is used
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Travel and Food
By Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada— It is a short hour and a half plane ride by EL Al from Tel Aviv to Cairo as we, four Calgarians, in the year 2010, leave the Israel part of our trip and embark upon our Egyptian adventure. To sail down the Nile, the longest river in the
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