United States Secretary of State John Kerry left Washington on Saturday and headed to Rome, where he will meet Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday and Monday, AFP reported. Some reports have suggested Kerry will use the meeting to assess the possibility of reviving the stalled Israeli-Palestinian Authority (PA) peace process, but many believe the […]
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Middle East, USABeijing (dpa) – Diplomatic communications between Taipei and Beijing have been suspended over what the mainland views to be an insult by the island’s new government, state-run media reported. A mainland spokesman blamed Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen for refusing to embrace the so-called 1992 Consensus, which recognizes a one-China principle, with differing interpretations of what
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InternationalDonald Trump took to Twitter on Sunday to hammer George Will, after the influential conservative pundit said he was leaving the GOP. “George Will, one of the most overrated political pundits (who lost his way long ago), has left the Republican Party,” the presumptive GOP presidential nominee tweeted. “He’s made many bad calls.” Mr. Will
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USAFormer U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich ramped up his campaign for the No. 2 spot on the Republican ticket Sunday, defending presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump while denying anyone has called him about the job. Gingrich, who — like Trump — has been married three times and redefined the Republican Party, told “Fox News Sunday”
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USAJames Cleverly is a happy man. He was one of the biggest campaigners to get Britain out of the European Union. But even the Conservative parliamentarians was a bit uneasy when his side won. “Deep down all of us — all humans — are a bit nervous about change. The British particularly so, and we
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InternationalA Spoonful of Sugar: A Nanny’s Story, by Brenda Ashford, Doubleday 2013 (and co-writer Kate Thompson) By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — Fairy tales usually begin with “Once upon a time” and end with “they lived happily ever after.” But is that true? No, of course not – that’s why they are called “fairy tales,” silly.
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Books, Poetry & Short StoriesAt Shabbat dinner this Friday night, many British Jewish households will be “having an extra l’chaim” to celebrate the results of Thursday’s Brexit poll, said 31-year-old Richard Verber, the senior vice president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. But many others are, as one British Jewish journalist put it, “appalled and very depressed.
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InternationalPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday heaped praise on his British counterpart David Cameron, who announced he would resign later this year after Britons voted to leave the European Union despite his campaign to keep it in the bloc. Cameron is a “respected leader and a true friend of Israel and the Jewish people,” Netanyahu
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International, Middle EastFormer New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, one of the many supporters of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, criticized President Barack Obama in an interview with the Israel Hayom newspaper on the weekend. In the interview, Giuliani said he agreed with Trump”s stance that Obama shows weakness and warned that this weakness will lead to
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USAWhen she was growing up in St. Petersburg, Russia in the early 1990s, Lidiya Yankovskaya would see large demonstrations while on her way to her thrice-weekly chorus rehearsals. “I remember passing by a major square in the middle of the city where fascists would fly large swastika flags and hand out pamphlets that said ‘Kill
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International, USAA senior Trump advisor on Friday attacked one of America”s oldest Jewish newspapers, slamming its editor for declaring a 24-hour ban on Trump-related articles, or what has been dubbed a “Trumpatorium”. Jason Greenblatt, a long-time advisor to Donald Trump who has become one of the GOP presumptive nominee”s closest campaign aides, excoriated the left-leaning Jewish
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USAA few years ago, the Keren Kayemet LeIsrael (Jewish National Fund) introduced the world to a new and different Blue Box. You may remember the old ones: they were blue and white and had Keren Kayemet LeIsrael written on the front in Hebrew. The money you shoved into their slots was sent to the JNF,
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Middle EastPalestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday backed away from his claim that rabbis had called to poison Palestinian water, saying he hadn’t intended to offend Jews, after Israel and Jewish groups said his statements were promoting blood libels and anti-Semitic tropes. “After it has become evident that the alleged statements by a rabbi on
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International, Middle East, USABy the year 2020, Louis Marinelli hopes to be the Alex Salmond of California. Salmond nearly led Scotland out of the United Kingdom in 2014 through an independence referendum, and Marinelli is attempting to have California split from the United States. His dream of seeing a free, independent California Republic was buoyed by Thursday’s shock
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