History was made in London on Friday as, for the first time, the city elected a Muslim mayor. British media is reporting that Sadiq Khan, a Labour party candidate, has won the election, beating out candidate Zac Goldsmith. “With almost 80% of first-preference votes counted, Sadiq has won without question,” said Peter Kellner, the former […]
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InternationalVenezuela’s ambassador to the United Nations on Friday compared Israel to the Nazi regime, asking whether the Jewish state planned to “wage a final solution” against the Palestinians. In a speech to an informal meeting of the Security Council at the UN headquarters in New York on “protection” for Palestinian civilians, Rafael Ramirez said: “What
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International, Middle EastA senior United Nations official Saturday brushed aside an invitation from Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to a lecture on Jewish history, in response to a leading UN agency branding Judaism’s holiest site as a Muslim one. Netanyahu said Friday he would host the lecture in response to a recent resolution of the UN’s cultural
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International, Middle EastJewish lawyer David Friedman defended his decision to advise Donald Trump on Israel in a savage op-ed Friday, after fellow Jew Peter Beinart accused him and Trump exploiting Jewish interests for political capital. Beinart leveled the harsh criticism in an op-ed for the left-leaning Israeli paper Haaretz, saying Friedman was lending Trump legitimacy among Jews
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It seems appropriate to call these two contenders for the world’s most powerful office by their first names, Donald and Hillary. Even this far away from their campaigns, where the news is usually about something else, we’ve been listening for more than a year to a great deal of commentary, along
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Ira Sharkansky, USATrump? Harumph By Laurie Baron LONDON, United Kingdom—Sheldon Adelson endorsed Donald Trump because he’ll be good for Israel. Sheldon, aren’t you a bit concerned about whether he will be good for the United States? * Hillary Clinton released a campaign advertisement featuring clips of former Republican presidential candidates denouncing Donald Trump. Trump retaliated by
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatirePrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced on Friday that he would host a Jewish history lecture for UN officials, in the wake of the recent UNESCO decision divorcing the Temple Mount from the Jewish people and treating it only as a Muslim site. “Two weeks ago, I was shocked to hear that UNESCO adopted a decision
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Amiya Taga, an Ethiopian-Israeli midfielder for the Maccabi Netanya soccer team, was fined NIS 750 ($198) for “misconduct” after wearing a protest shirt during the playing of the national anthem before a match. His shirt read: “How long, Avera Mengistu,” on one side and “We are all Yosef Salamsa” on the other, according to a
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Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsBy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — When my younger daughter Debra was born, I was present (as I had been for her sister Sari). I distinctly recall her emerging from her mother’s womb like a moonrise. Now, 33 years later, Debra has given birth to twin girls and the stars are all lined up in
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — Two years ago my congregation embarked on a grand experiment. Instead of “charging” for synagogue membership we changed to a free will donation system we call T’rumah. T’rumah has been a success, although a qualified success. Many of our members chose to increase or maintain their previous membership gift
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Jewish ReligionThe day I arrived in Egypt in April, President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi had just given two Red Sea islands, Tiran and Sanafir, to King Salman of Saudi Arabia, who was visiting Cairo to announce billions of dollars in aid and investment. The islands are in the Gulf of Aqaba, where both Israel and Jordan maintain ports,
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Middle EastHamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said on Friday that his Islamist terror movement is not seeking war with Israel, but will not tolerate its troops entering Gaza. “We are not calling for a new war, but we will not under any circumstance accept these incursions,” he said in a prayer sermon in Gaza, which has repeatedly
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Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. — In a rare joint appearance of Israeli and Saudi Arabian officials, the kingdom’s Prince Turki al-Faisal and IDF Maj. Gen. (ret.) Yaakov Amidror shared a stage Thursday night in Washington, debating ways to advance a two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians, while also expressing common concerns over the Iranian nuclear deal and
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Middle East, USAIn an apparent U-turn, the U.K. plans to take in more unaccompanied Syrian refugee children who are living in Europe, Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron said. While he declined to provide a specific number of children, Cameron, who made the announcement during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, said ministers will discuss the new policy with
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