One day after real estate mogul Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee, a haredi magazine published an interview with the Manhattan billionaire in which the GOP standard-bearer discussed Iran, Israel, the rise of anti-Semitism around the world, and Jewish support for the Democratic Party. The interview, which appeared in Wednesday”s Mishpacha magazine, continued along […]
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Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Chinese Ambassador Liu Jieyi, who held the April UN Security Council presidency, announced last week that the status of the Golan Heights “remains unchanged.” That is, of course, true — like the old “Saturday Night Live” running gag, “Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.” He meant it belongs to Syria,
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenIsrael’s friends in the Western Pacific: Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru and Palau Sydney (dpa) – Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has blamed sections of the media for giving refugees “false hope,” a day after he accused refugee advocates of encouraging detainees to self-harm. Dutton told reporters in Canberra Thursday that media reporting of asylum seekers self-harming
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InternationalThe 9,000-square-foot home of the late industry titan Edgar Bronfman Sr. is up for sale in the tony town of Westport, Connecticut, home to celebrities such as Michael Bolton, Harvey Weinstein and Joanne Woodward. Sotheby’s International Realty listed the property for $7,995,000, or just over $10 million Canadian, on Tuesday. The 13-acre estate is currently
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Travel and Food, USANEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Thursday welcomed a statement by Donald Trump that he “totally disavows” conspiratorial anti-Semitic remarks made by David Duke suggesting that “Jewish supremacists” were attempting to undermine his bid for the White House. In a statement shared with various media outlets Thursday, Trump added: “Anti-Semitism has no place
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USADr. Beverley Chalmers’ latest book is not the kind people want to read. Yet, it’s one they should. Titled, “Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women’s Voices Under Nazi Rule,” it is filled from cover to cover with horrifying accounts of countless Jewish and non-Jewish women being raped and brutalized, experimented upon, forced into prostitution or compelled
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International, Jewish HistoryJewish voters are turning away from Britain’s Labour Party, with more British Jews saying there are high levels of anti-Semitism in Labour than in any other major party, according to a poll. A survey by the pollster Survation published in the Jewish Chronicle on Wednesday shows that just 8.5 percent of British Jewish voters would
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InternationalIDF uncovers terror tunnel along Gaza border (JNS.org) The Israel Defense Forces uncovered a cross-border Hamas attack tunnel on Thursday amid a flurry of attacks along the Gaza border over the past few days. “IDF units are securing southern Gaza border communities,” the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in a statement. “This tunnel was dug by
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-55th in a Series- Exit 23, Lake Jennings Park Road, Lakeside, California ~ R.M. Levy Water Treatment Plant By Donald H. Harrison LAKESIDE, California — I have a saying that “there’s a Jewish story everywhere” but who would have thought that it would take a former governor of Illinois to put me on the search
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Travel and FoodLies against Israel and the Jewish people are running rampant, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned at the official Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony Wednesday night, at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. “Nazi German rule was eliminated 71 years ago, but anti-Semitism and lies did not die with Hitler in that Berlin bunker,” Netanyahu began. “Millions of people
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Jewish History, Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. President Barack Obama issued this statement for Yom HaShoah 2016: Today, on Yom HaShoah, we solemnly remember the six million Jews and the millions of others murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust. On this day, we honor the memory of the millions of individuals – the mothers and
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Jewish History, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There hasn’t been Jewish unity since our ancestors began writing some 3,000 years ago. We can guess that Jewish literacy has something to do with Jewish creativity, individual capacity to express oneself freely, tolerance or enthusiasm for dispute, as well as economic success. Roots of self doubt and being disputatious
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Jewish History, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry issued the following statement on the occasion of Yom HaShoah: Teresa and I join all Americans in observing Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this day, we pause to reflect on the irredeemable loss of six million Jews and countless Poles, Roma, LGBT people, Jehovah’s
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International, Jewish History, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Students at San Diego State University and a representative of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) evidently feel that a strong offense is a good defense. On Wednesday, May 4, at a campus news conference reported on local television, they called for the resignation of SDSU’s President Elliot Hirshman because
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