Published by The Kansas City Star KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A white supremacist who killed three people at Jewish sites in Overland Park, Kansas, in 2014 has died in prison, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections. F. Glenn Miller Jr., convicted of capital murder in 2015, died Monday at the El Dorado Correctional Facility.
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Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – The former leader of a US neo-Nazi group was sentenced to 41 months in prison on Tuesday for waging a campaign to intimidate journalists and racial and religious minorities. John Cameron Denton, 27, of Montgomery, Texas, was convicted of carrying out dozens of “swatting” attacks across the United States
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Published by Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland asked Congress on Tuesday to provide more funding for investigating and prosecuting domestic terrorism, saying it poses an “accelerating” threat that keeps him up at night. Garland, who had served as a federal appellate judge and federal prosecutor before President Joe Biden nominated him
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Published by Reuters By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Benjamin Netanyahu’s deadline for forming a new Israeli government expired early on Wednesday, with the country’s longest-serving prime minister having failed to break more than two years of political deadlock. There was also no guarantee that, after the conservative incumbent was unable to assemble a new
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Middle East
Vice President Kamala Harris is making a mistake by declining to visit the U.S.-Mexico border, but not for the reason that Republican critics may think. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, International, USA
As this third book of the Torah, the middle book, comes to an end, we are given nechemta, with a hopeful view of future generations. The parasha tells us, “If you follow My statutes and observe My commandments and perform them, I will give you rains in their time, the Land will yield its produce, and the tree of the field will give forth its fruit. Your threshing will last until the vintage…and I will grant peace in the Land…You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you…” [Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D]
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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell
The recently deceased scholar Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz who authored sixty books and hundreds of articles is the author of the 549-page book Reference Guide to the Talmud: The Indispensable Talmud Study Aid. It is one of his five new books published by Maggid Books. [Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion
South Africa’s apartheid laws mandated Black South Africans to use separate, often inferior facilities like public restrooms, public transport, beaches, schools, et cetera. B’Tselem claims that a comparable system of inequality exists between Arabs and Jews, both within Israel proper and the disputed territories of the West Bank and Gaza. This is simply false. [Benjamin Zaghi]
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Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
The Jewish Community Foundation issued the following notice to its donors and others interested in helping the victims of the Mt. Meron stampede, in which some 45 people were killed and many more injured. [Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego Press Release]
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Middle East, San Diego County
The student government of Pomona College successfully pushed through a resolution that would compel student clubs to participate in a boycott of targeted companies doing business with Israel. [Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D]
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Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Published by AFP Vienna (AFP) – Even if they rarely speak German and some have never set foot on Austrian soil, nearly 76 years after the Holocaust, descendants of those forced out of Austria by the Nazis are reclaiming the nationality stolen from their ancestors. “It was very important for me,” says 17-year-old American high
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Published by NJ.com Andy Kim is looking for character and citizenship, nothing less. He is convinced they go together, and that character manifests itself in the courage to step forward in times like these – to take the risk, to run for office, to lead amid fear and hostility and even threats of violence –
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Published by AFP New York (AFP) – Responding to a wave of recent hate crimes, Asian American leaders unveiled a new philanthropic group Monday funded so far at some $250 million to counter discrimination. Calling itself the Asian American Foundation, the group said it was undertaking “largest philanthropic commitment in history by Asian Americans fully
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Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – A federal appeals court is to examine a law on Monday banning transgender athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s sports, an issue which has become highly politicized in the United States. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in California will hear arguments in a case challenging a
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