SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal judge refused Wednesday to reopen voter registration in California ahead of next week’s presidential primary, telling a group led by backers of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders that the rights of the state’s unaffiliated voters have not been harmed. “There’s absolutely no showing of any federal violation,” said U.S. District Judge […]
Even without a Democratic nominee yet, President Obama is jumping into the presidential campaign with both feet Wednesday, telling voters in Indiana that the choice in November “isn’t even close.” Mr. Obama will tell voters in Elkhart, Indiana, that economic issues should lead them to vote for the Democratic nominee, presumably Hillary Clinton, over Republican
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USAFinance Minister Moshe Kahlon (Kulanu) hinted on Wednesday that peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) may soon resume. “The rumors and talk of a meaningful diplomatic process in our area have a much greater basis than some newspapers suggest. There is the possibility of a significant turnaround on the regional level,” Kahlon
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Middle EastNewly exposed letters reveal that British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in the past described Israel”s politicians as “criminals,” called for them to be banned from Britain and for trade sanctions to be imposed on the Jewish state. The letters, written by Corbyn before he was elected Labour leader, were released by the UK-based Jewish News
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International, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The Prime Minister has generally avoided public comment about Sara, but he denied this story, and brought suit against a journalist who posted it on Facebook. . Israel’s media, with one prominent exception, has headlined Sara’s problems. TV and radio news programs have also provided opportunity for Netanyahu family
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Bruce
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Travel and FoodPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday once again criticized the French peace initiative, as Paris prepares to convene a conference of foreign ministers on Friday to discuss the diplomatic stalemate in relations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA). “The path to peace is not via international conferences that attempt to force a settlement, that
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International, Middle EastBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ The Government Accounting Office revealed that the United States still uses floppy discs for the computers which control America’s nuclear arsenal. To allay fears that its technology is antiquated,, a Defense Department spokesperson assured the public that it still possesses the original Betamax video for instructing personnel on how to
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Hello Again by Stan Schatt © 2016; ISBN 978-1-533182-87-6; 256 pages By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This is both a detective mystery and a dip into the waters of the paranormal. One of the main characters, Bill Eisner, is a Jewish owner of a coffee shop, which offers “Good Karma” free table
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego CountyTel Aviv (dpa) – Israel released its most-wanted Jewish extremist, Meir Ettinger, after being held for some 10 months in “administrative detention” without trial. Ettinger, 24, was released from jail Wednesday morning and placed under house arrest, Prison Service spokesman Assaf Librati told dpa. He was taken into custody in August for being involved in
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Middle EastTwo babies were hospitalized at Schneider Children’s Hospital in Petach Tikva for being infected with herpes during circumcision, Kikar HaShabbat reports Wednesday night – and a prominent mohel has demanded that fellow mohels get checked for the disease before performing the ceremony. Mohel Rabbi Shlomo Mahfoud told the daily that mohels must “check themselves first
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationThe UN’s special coordinator for the Middle East peace process on Wednesday accused the Jewish Home party, a member of the governing coalition, of “killing hope” for a peace treaty with the Palestinian Authority. Nickolay Mladenov spoke after a minister from the Jewish Home party, which holds several portfolios in Netanyahu’s government, declared the party
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International, Middle EastIn 1990, Jihad Al-Mohammed moved into an abandoned building in the old city of Sidon in south Lebanon. The Lebanese civil war had just come to end. The Palestinian refugees who had been sheltering in the centuries-old structure had gone. “But it was filled with rats and garbage,” says Mohammed. “So I cleaned it up.”
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Jewish Religion, Middle East
NEW YORK (WJC) — The World Jewish Congress mourns the passing of veteran Israeli diplomat Mordechai Arbell. Arbell was for a long time chairman of the World Jewish Congress Research Institute in Jerusalem and in addition a founding board member of the Israel Council on Foreign Relations ICFR). He passed away on Monday in Jerusalem at the age of 87.
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International, Middle East, Obituaries & memorials