Donald H. Harrison

Trump Vows To Crush Campus Protests And Bolster Israel In Private Donor Meeting: Report

Published by Benzinga In a private New York gathering, Donald Trump reportedly made bold declarations regarding student protests and his unwavering support for Israel. What Happened: At a private event in New York, Trump pledged to expel student protesters from the U.S. and expressed strong support for Israel, according to attendees, The Washington Post reported

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Israeli Airstrikes In Rafah, Border Shooting Incident With Egypt Escalate Tensions In Middle East

Published by Benzinga Tensions in the Middle East have escalated sharply with a series of critical events in the past 24 hours. An Israeli airstrike in Gaza’s Rafah city on Sunday night resulted in significant casualties, including the deaths of 45 people, igniting a wave of global condemnation. The attack came after Hamas launched rocket

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Netanyahu: Israeli Strike in Rafah That Killed 45 Palestinians Was ‘Tragic Mistake’

Published by HNGN Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged Monday that his military killed 45 Palestinian refugees in Rafah, describing the incident as a “tragic mistake.” The fatal airstrike on the besieged city of Rafah has been condemned by the international community. The United Nations described the aftermath as “horrifying;” Italian officials said that Israel’s

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‘Vanity Fair’ Confusing in First Act, Redeemed in Second Act

The play is cute once you figure out the various players.  The only actors that don’t play multiple parts are Macias and Austin, so it does take a bit in the beginning to follow the fast character changes (illustrated by costume changes or putting on a smock or shawl).  Dagmar Krause Fields for example, is the narrator, Miss Matilda Crawley, and Lord Steyne. [Sandi Masori]

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Jewish Biography: Lion Feuchtwanger, the Cosmopolite

His books probe which type of Jew serves the nation more faithfully – the court Jew Joseph Süss Oppenheimer from  Jew Süss; Yehuda ibn Ezra, the favorite of King Alfonso VIII from The Spanish Ballad; the assimilated and estranged historian and writer, the collaborationist Joseph Flavius in The Jewish War trilogy; Jephthah, the leader and fighter for the national interest in Jephthah and His Daughter; or the revolutionary leader Thomas Wendt (Ernst Toller) in The Year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighteen? [Alex Gordon]

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Israel Claims It Took Out 2 Hamas Leaders In Rafah Airstrikes That Killed 35 Palestinians

Published by Benzinga The latest Israeli air strikes in Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza Strip, have resulted in at least 35 Palestinian deaths and multiple injuries. Among the casualties were the Hamas chief of staff of the Gaza Strip and another senior official. What Happened: The Israeli military launched an air strike on

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Hounding the Headlines: DEI, Dog Equity, and Inclusion

Doesn’t Major League Baseball realize how insulting it is to dogs to know that marlins and devil rays have teams bearing their names even though neither of those animals can run the bases or catch and retrieve balls?  Why honor venomous diamondbacks when dog bites are rarely fatal?  [Elona Baron]

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Top EU diplomat meets Palestinian premier, renews Gaza ceasefire call

Published by DPA International The European Union’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, reiterated calls for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas, following a meeting with the Palestinian Authority’s new prime minister in Brussels on Sunday. “We must do everything in our power to reach an immediate end of the

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International, Israel, Middle East, Nordot

Sirens Sound in Tel Aviv as Hamas Launches Rocket Attack

Published by HNGN Sirens were sounding in Tel Aviv Sunday after Hamas launched a rocket atttack at the nation’s largest city. Israeli authorities reported that at least eight rockets were launched from the Rafah area in southern Gaza, where Israel is conducting its own military attack. Israeli military officals said that a number of the

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Novel Tells of Female Math Whiz Helping the U.S. to Win World War II

Her misplaced feelings of guilt prompted her to hide a remarkable inheritance, the gift of being able to visualize the solutions to math problems in her head, similar to the way that television’s Dr. Shaun Murphy of the just concluded The Good Doctor series was able to mentally picture complex medical conditions and interactions. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Memorial Day: Remembering Holocaust Survivor Tibor Rubin, Medal of Honor Awardee

By Dorian de Wind The Moderate Voice AUSTIN, Texas — On this Memorial Day weekend, I think of Tibor Rubin, a Holocaust survivor who went on to become a U.S. citizen and a Medal of Honor recipient for his bravery during the Korean conflict. He was cited “for extraordinary heroism during the period from July

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