The Jewish actors: Jeff Chandler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Chandler_(actor) Chandler plays Cochise
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Peru’s next president could be a Jew
LIMA — One of Peru’s leading presidential contenders in the upcoming race is the son of Polish Jews who fled Europe after the Nazis came to power. Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, a former prime minister, is positioning himself to become Peru’s next president after coming from behind in the polls to finish runner-up in the first
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InternationalCruz says Rubio may be his Vice President
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Wednesday revealed he is considering his former rival in the Republican presidential race Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) as his running mate, a day after Rubio gave him an unofficial endorsement. In a CNN town hall meeting on Wednesday, Cruz said that while frontrunner Donald Trump may be leading in the
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USALivni: Arab anti- Semitism justifies Palestinian statehood
Former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni (Zionist Camp) offered a novel justification for the two-state solution Wednesday night, suggesting that the frighteningly high levels of anti-Semitism among Palestinian Authority Arabs validated her support for a Palestinian state. Livni”s comments came during a town hall meeting in Boston on Wednesday night. The event, which drew some 1,000
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Middle EastLipinsky Jewish Arts Festival set for May 27 – July 17
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – San Diego Repertory Theatre (San Diego REP) hosts the 23rd Annual Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival from May 27 through July 17, 2016. Following up 2015’s festival, the highest selling in JFest history, the slate of twelve performances happening at eight different San Diego and North County venues features
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & BroadcastUkraine now has a Jewish prime minister
Ukraine”s parliament Thursday confirmed the appointment of Volodymr Groysman as premier in a 257 to 50 vote replacing Arseniy Yatsenyuk. The 38-year-old lawyer by training has gone from a small city mayor to Ukraine’s premier over a remarkable two-year span, during which he formed a close relationship with President Petro Poroshenko. Groysman is son of
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InternationalElijah to face armed guards outside Brussels seders
The Brussels Jewish community’s Passover celebrations will go on as usual this year but with a few additional guests — namely security guards, police officers and heavily armed soldiers. Security measures at Jewish sites in the country will be heightened during the Passover holiday in light of lingering security concerns following last month’s terror attacks
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International, Jewish ReligionIsland deal signals warming Saudi – Israeli relations
The islands of Tiran and Sanafir are two tiny specks of land located at the entrance of the Gulf of Aqaba. “These are very small, entirely uninhabited pieces of land. There’s absolutely nothing there,” Yitzhak Levanon, a former Israeli ambassador to Egypt, said Wednesday in Jerusalem. And yet, the islands continue to make…
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Middle EastIsraeli Police Appoints First Arab to Senior Rank
Israel has appointed the first ever Arab police officer to the rank of deputy commissioner, the force’s second-highest rank. Jamal Hakrush, a Muslim from the village of Kafr Kanna in Galilee, Israel, was formally appointed to the position in a ceremony on Wednesday attended by Israeli Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich, the Times of Israel reported.
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Middle EastNorwegian rappers slammed for using ‘Jew’ as an insult
A popular Norwegian rap duo was accused of mainstreaming anti-Semitism by using “Jew” and Ariel Sharon as insults in its latest single. Karpe Diem, which has sold hundreds of thousands of CDs in Norway since its creation in 2000, released “Attitude Problems” last week, the online edition of the Verdens Gang daily reported Wednesday. “I
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsJewish voters prefer Hillary to Bernie
Sen. Bernie Sanders has gone further than any other Jewish candidate in a presidential campaign, but he’s not garnering much support from Jewish voters, polls indicate. The Vermont senator’s standing among Jews has been much speculated about since his campaign started to take off late last year. But until recently, the Democratic campaign has taken
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USAJewish community helped free Gross from Cuban prison
By Jacob Kamaras/JNS.org HOUSTON–Alan Gross used to be nothing more to me than a tragic headline. When I started my position at this news service in July 2011, Gross had been imprisoned in Cuba since December 2009 for what that country called “crimes against the state.” Gross, a subcontractor for the United States Agency
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International, Jacob KamarasAre you a clifihead?
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — If you grew up in the 1970s (or later) and were a die-hard ”Grateful Dead” rock band fan, you probably remember how fans often called themselves “Deadheads” in the ensuing decades, and still do today. The nickname arose when a large number of fans began travelling to see
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, The World We ShareNIF: Jewish community rhetoric is overheated
By Daniel Sokatch NEW YORK — We live in a time when the debate over Israel’s direction, both on the ground and here in the diaspora, leads to overheated rhetoric and outrageous behavior. Sadly, we often see the discussion turn to spurious and baseless attacks on NIF, our organizations, and indeed virtually anyone who dares to
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