Editor’s Note: The following is satire and should not be taken literally By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — “Because I want to make Russian Jews great again,” Donald Trump said he’s agreed to play Tevye in a special production of Fiddler on the Roof. The show will necessarily be a limited-run production (ending by […]
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Joel H. Cohen, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — Just hours after four Israelis were murdered at the Sarona Market in Tel Aviv, Professor Cornel West called on a Democratic Party platform drafting committee to describe the West Bank as “occupied.” West is one of three advocates for the Palestinians whom presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders appointed to
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Travel and FoodMike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas who took part in the Republican primaries, spoke to Israel’s Army Radio in supporting presidential candidate Donald Trump and his statements against Muslims. Trump recently called for closing the United States’ borders to Muslims and mocked those who condemned him for it. “Right here in Israel, Muslims don”t
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Middle East, USAOfficials in Washington on Wednesday sought to play down the fact that the White House had threatened to veto a Congressional proposal to increase funding for Israeli missile defense. According to Haaretz, the officials stressed that the threat does not reflect a desire to cut aid to Israel, but merely a disagreement over the proper
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Middle East, USANEW YORK — Beneath Robert Silverman’s Midwestern affability lies a determination and stoicism few would attribute to such an agreeable man. These qualities were tested after Muslim-American gunman Omar Mateen killed 49 people and wounded 53 at a nightclub in Orlando Sunday, in the most gruesome mass-shooting in recent US history. “The Orlando murders reinforce
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International, Middle East, USABy Vice President Joe Biden WASHINGTON, D.C. — Over the past few years, we’ve watched as new horrific shootings have replaced previous ones as the deadliest in our nation’s history. We’ve waged campaign after campaign to turn our grief into action — each time thinking maybe, just maybe, this will be the one that breaks through.
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USABy Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi BETHESDA, Maryland — When the inaugural Genesis Prize – dubbed by Time magazine as “The Jewish Nobel” – was awarded in 2014 to one of the world’s leading philanthropists and public servants, New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, I admit I was very skeptical. I remember scratching my head and thinking, “One
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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAWhen Bernie Sanders took an early, exploratory trip to Iowa, a curious crowd of 150 or so turned out at a college-town bookstore, where they listened politely as he raged against the billionaires and oligarchs he said were destroying America. The angry aria from the wild-haired, slouch-shouldered senator from Vermont was delivered beneath a sign
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USAAs I write this, I’m still reeling in shock and horror at the murder of Jo Cox, the MP for Batley and Spen, who was so brutally killed yesterday. I had been sharing drinks with her husband, Brendan, only the night before. Now he is a widower and their two young children face life without
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InternationalThe man arrested over the killing of Labour MP Jo Cox bought books from a U.S.-based neo-Nazi group, including guides on how to build homemade guns, an American anti-hate campaign group has claimed. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has published receipts that appeared to show that Thomas Mair, known as Tommy, bought a manual
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InternationalIn the wake of the Orlando Massacre in which 49 people were murdered by a Muslim terrorist, Oliver Rosenberg, a Jewish Democratic challenger to Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D), has stated that the incumbent, Congressman Jerry Nadle, ” needs to explain how he can be pro-LGBT” when he voted for and supported the Iran nuclear deal.
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Middle East, USAFormer prime minister and defense minister Ehud Barak launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Thursday at the Herzliya Conference and called for a “popular protest” – as well as the next elections – to bring Netanyahu down from power. “A fanatical nucleus of radical ideology,” he said, “has taken over the Likud
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Middle EastPatrick Leahy By Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon A congressional measure to combat economic boycotts of Israel is being blocked by a leading senator who recently called on the Obama administration to investigate what he alleged are Israeli war crimes, according to congressional sources apprised of the matter. A group of senators has been
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