By Laurie Baron FALMOUTH, United Kingdom -Ted Cruz named Carly Fiorina his running mate because she is even more unlikable than him. After he introduced her at a rally, he did not notice when she fell off the stage replicating the response of most Americans when she withdrew from the presidential race earlier this year. […]
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SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — The Men’s Club and Sisterhood of Tifereth Israel Synagogue plan to celebrate Israel’s 68th birthday with an ol’ fashioned American style barbecue at 6 p.m., Thursday, May 12. Yup, kosher hamburger and hot dogs, plus vegetarian selections. Decorations and recreation, meanwhile, will be Israeli through and through. Israeli dancing will be
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Middle East, San Diego Calendar, USAIsrael’s friends in the Western Pacific: Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau Australia has vowed no change to its refugee policy after a Somali woman seeking asylum set fire to herself in protest over her detention on the Pacific island of Nauru. The 21-year old is said to be in a critical condition. It is the
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InternationalEvery election brings new questions about the qualities and character of national leadership, in the United States and abroad. In the 2008 presidential election, the big question was whether America could elect a non-white man — in this case, an African-American — as president. Up until then, all U.S. presidents had been white Christian males
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International, USAThe Labour party in Britain continues to make headlines, and the Telegraph newspaper revealed on Monday evening that party leader Jeremy Corbyn described a convicted terrorist accused of plotting a series of suicide attacks in Israel as an “icon” and compared him to Nelson Mandela. The comments were made in a post now deleted from
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International, Middle EastFormer Education Minister Rabbi Shai Piron spoke with former President Shimon Peres about Holocaust Remembrance Day on Channel 2’s Reshet. During their talk, Peres said that it is necessary to visit the extermination camps in Europe in order to digest the enormity of the crimes. “I was there, I saw the tallits, the shoes and
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Jewish History, Middle EastAnti-Muslim acts in France tripled in 2015, with peaks in activity coming after two sets of deadly terror attacks, a government advisory commission said Monday. A total of 429 anti-Muslim threats or hate crimes were reported last year, up from 133 in 2014, according to a report from France’s National Human Rights Commission (CNCDH). Two
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InternationalA British legislator at the center of a row over anti-Semitism in the country’s Labour Party stepped down on Tuesday from the parliamentary committee charged with investigating prejudice against Jews in Britain. Naz Shah had been suspended from her party, pending the outcome of an internal inquiry into controversial comments she made about…
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InternationalRepublican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump on Sunday said he would love to broker a peace settlement between the Israelis and the Palestinians, The Jewish Insider reported. Trump”s comments came during a campaign rally in Terre Haute, Indiana, where primaries will be held on Tuesday. Trump said that seeing Israel and the Palestinians sign on a
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Middle East, USAIsrael”s largest opposition party is negotiating the terms for a possible unity government, a senior Zionist Camp official said on Tuesday. Speaking with Army Radio, Tzipi Livni (Zionist Camp) confirmed that her party was in talks with the Netanyahu government over a possible unity coalition. “I was shown things [brought up] in the talks, [but]
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Middle EastIsraeli President Reuven Rivlin received a standing ovation Tuesday during a unique meeting of French politicians, Jewish leaders and Jewish, Muslim and Christian youth. President Rivlin hosted the delegation today at his residence in Jerusalem, which comprised of French regional, parliamentary, and Jewish community leaders organized by CRIF, the umbrella body of the Jewish community
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International, Middle EastAn anti-Semitism watchdog warned on Monday about a “worrisome trend” of anti-Semitic incidents at schools in the Netherlands despite an overall drop of incidents on the country’s streets. The Center for Information and Documentation on Israel (CIDI) reported that there were 16 incidents of anti-Semitism in Dutch schools in 2015, the highest recorded number in
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International, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK– The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has rarely been so far from finding a resolution. Since the cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hamas during the summer of 2014, the desire to seek peace has been diminishing, and instead growing tensions have prevailed, punctuated by stabbings and car-ramming attacks by the Palestinians, and
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle EastIslamic State attack on synagogue foiled in Tunisia (JNS.org) A Tunisian newspaper has revealed that the Islamic State plotted to attack a synagogue in the country, but the plan was foiled. The local Al Chourouk newspaper reported on Monday that the terror group meant to target a synagogue in the coastal town of El Marsa,
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