By Steve Kramer ALFEI MENASHE, Israel — June 5–10, 1967, (earlier this year according to the Hebrew calendar) is the most consequential period in the history of modern Israel except for May 14, 1948, when David Ben-Gurion declared Israel’s independence. In the midst of this six-day period, Jerusalem Day marks the 50th anniversary of the
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Jewish History, Middle East, Steve KramerAlmost a year to the day before the 2000 presidential election, Beltway insiders met at a comedy club in Washington, D.C., to roast one another at the annual “Funniest Celebrity in Washington Contest.” At the previous event, Kellyanne Conway, now counselor to President Donald Trump, had performed stand-up and sang an awkward a cappella version
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USAUS First Lady Melania Trump on Saturday stepped off Air Force One conservatively dressed in long sleeves and pants to conform to the strict dress code that Saudi Arabia enforces for its female citizens. But one thing was missing: a head scarf. Instead, Melania Trump’s below-the-shoulder brown hair blew freely in the breeze at King
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Middle East, USAPresident Donald Trump isn”t ruling out having Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu join him during his visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem, despite a statement by National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster on Tuesday that “no Israeli leaders” would be accompanying the president. In an interview with Israel Hayom published Friday morning, the president said
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Middle East, USAPresident Trump will leave Washington on Friday kicking off his nine-day trip with a flight to Saudi Arabia. On Monday, the president will fly to Israel for a two-day visit, followed by a visit in the Vatican on Tuesday. Joining the president for his trip are his Orthodox Jewish daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law Jared Kushner.
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Middle East, USAThe cabinet is expected to approve next week the proposal of Housing and Construction Minister Yoav Galant, Tourism Minister Yariv Levin and Deputy Housing and Construction Minister Jackie Levy to build an elevator and underground passages to make the Western Wall and the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem more accessible. The complex
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Middle East, Travel and FoodThe latest bombshell to strike the White House came Friday when The New York Times reported that President Donald Trump told Russian officials that firing FBI Director James Comey had relieved “great pressure” on him. Oh, and he is also said to have called the most senior law enforcement official in the United States “a
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USAThe dean of Pierson College at Yale University, June Chu, was placed on leave Thursday, after some racist reviews she had written on Yelp in the past started circulating among students of the Ivy League college. The reviews in question were directed toward some restaurants located in New Haven, Connecticut, the Daily Meal reported. For
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International, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAThe United States wants North Korea to trust its promise of no hostility and conduct no more nuclear or missile tests before Washington can consider opening talks with the communist nation, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was quoted as saying Thursday. The remarks, made in a meeting with South Korea’s special presidential envoy Hong Seok-hyun,
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International, USAWASHINGTON — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein returned to Capitol Hill for a second day Friday, an extraordinary briefing for all House members on the naming of a special counsel to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links to President Donald Trump’s campaign. Rosenstein made few new disclosures during the private briefing,
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USAAt the same time, clip lists Trump’s meeting in Bethlehem with PA President Mahmoud Abbas under section titled ‘Israel’ By Raphael Ahren A screen shot from a White House video promoting US President Trumps first visit overseas / whitehouse.gov A map of Israel on a video the White House produced on US President Donald Trump’s
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International, Middle East, USANEW YORK — Anthony Weiner, the former Democratic congressman who unwittingly helped Donald Trump win the presidential election, pleaded guilty Friday in New York to charges of sending obscene material to a minor. The charges arose from a months-long sexually charged flirtation Weiner carried out with a 15-year-old high school sophomore in North Carolina. But
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USAPresident Trump has insisted that his press coverage has been historically negative, and a newly released Harvard journalism study backs him up. A major study released Thursday by the Harvard Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy found that the coverage of Mr. Trump during his first 100 days was “unsparing,” with negative reports
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USAWASHINGTON — Investigators into Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential elections are now also probing whether White House officials have engaged in a cover-up, according to members of Congress who were briefed Friday by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. That avenue of investigation was added in recent weeks after assertions by former FBI Director James
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