Thousands of mourners have gathered in the Judean town of Kiryat Arba near Hevron on Thursday afternoon, for the funeral of Hallel-Yaffa Ariel, the 13-year-old girl murdered in her sleep by an Arab terrorist. The funeral procession began with eulogies outside the Ariel family home in the Ramat Mamre “Charsina” neighborhood at the edge of […]
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Middle EastA US publisher of Adolf Hitler”s Nazi manifesto announced its decision to donate all proceeds to a local organization that works directly with aging Holocaust survivors, according to a Boston Globe report. The move comes after Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a Boston-based publisher of one of the English translations of “Mein Kampf”, recently received criticism for
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History, USAThat Barbra Streisand is a woman of many “firsts” is indisputable. Streisand is one of the best-selling music artists of all time and the only recording artist to have a number-one album in each of the last six decades. With “Yentl” in 1983, she became the first woman to write, produce, direct and star in
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAThe race is officially underway to choose the new leader of the UK’s governing Conservative Party – and the country’s next Prime Minister. Five candidates have officially declared their wish to stand for selection. However, the best-known and most hotly anticipated has shocked the country by announcing he will not stand. Boris Johnson made the
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InternationalBritain’s Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is in hot water again, this time over a speech in which he appeared to compare Israel to the brutal Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group. Ironically, Corbyn’s controversial remarks were made in an address concerning the party’s recent anti-Semitism saga, over which dozens of politicians were suspended for anti-Semitic
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International, Middle EastThe leaders of Mexico Canada and the United States have mounted a fierce defence of free trade, closer economic ties and agreed on ambitious Clean energy goals. At what’s been called “The Three Amigos “ summit in Ottawa, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ans US President Barack Obama ,pledged to
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International, USAPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman held a security briefing following today’s terror attack in Kiryat Arba. The two approved a series of security measures following the murderous attack, including a lock-down on the village of Bani Na’im, where the terrorist was from. All work permits from members of the murderer’s clan
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Middle EastDonald Trump said Wednesday that his GOP primary rivals that have failed to follow through on their promise to support the party’s eventual nominee should be barred from seeking elected office again. “They broke their word,” Mr. Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, said during a rally in Maine. “In my opinion they should never
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USAConflict is coming to a head in both parties ahead of the upcoming Republican and Democratic national conventions, and it’s likely that one of the most explosive disputes there won’t take place among protesters outside the conventional halls in Cleveland and Philadelphia, but among delegates looking to shape their party’s official position on free trade.
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International, USAFrench President Francois Hollande has warned that if U.S. Republican candidate Donald Trump is elected President it would “complicate” relations between Washington and Europe. Paris and Washington are close allies, working together in the NATO military alliance and with warm bilateral ties. Hollande paid a state visit to the U.S. in November 2015 after the
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International, USAFamed statistician Nate Silver predicts Hillary Clinton will win the presidential election, in a forecast that estimates her to have a 79 percent chance of taking the White House—dwarfing Donald Trump’s predicted 20 percent chance of a win in November. With the election year halfway over, Clinton is predicted to maintain her lead in the
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USATurkey”s state-run news agency reported that police have detained at least 22 people in connection to the terror attack on Ataturk Airport. Officials identified three as ISIS fighters, originally from Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Dagestan, a region in the south of Russia. Dagestan has been suffering from guerrila terror since 2000. All three areas are predominantly
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Middle EastInternational condolences and support flooded in in the wake of Hallel Uriel’s murder this morning. Hallel Uriel was stabbed multiple times in her bed by a 17 year-old terrorist, who was shot at the scene of the crime by security personnel. The US State Department declared, “We condemn in the strongest possible terms the outrageous
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Middle East, USAA group of nine Israelis on Wednesday evening had to be rescued from the Palestinian Arab city of Ramallah, after locals attacked one of their vehicles. The Israelis reportedly willingly entered the city. Locals who noticed them hurled rocks and firebombs at one of their cars, which caught fire. All nine escaped without injury. Eight
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