LOS ANGELES, May 15, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — On Friday, May 12, U.S. District Court judge André Birotte, Jr. granted a legal victory to the Chabad of Irvine, a small Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Irvine. The judge dismissed a lawsuit brought against the synagogue by animal rights activists, who sought to end a 1200-year-old Orthodox Jewish
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Jewish Religion, USAAn Israeli-Arab teenager seeking to convert to Judaism and enlist in the IDF was freed recently from captivity, after police received a tip that the youth had been locked up by his family. According to NRG, police found a 19-year old Israeli-Arab man being held against his will in his family”s home in the Arab-Israeli
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Middle EastAdmitting immigrants and refugees from the Middle East has become a huge flashpoint in US policy with the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict their entry to the US. So it’s interesting to note that back in the 19th century, one of the first Arab Muslim immigrants to the US — potentially the first-ever Syrian immigrant
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Middle East, USAHouse Minority Whip Steny Hoyer on Tuesday accused President Trump of eroding confidence in the U.S. government both at home and abroad but stopped well short of calling for impeachment. Mr. Hoyer, Maryland Democrat, joined House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in saying that Democrats mulling Mr. Trump’s ouster must justify it with evidence. “We need
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International, USAArthur Sulzberger Jr. sends personal letter to subscribers who canceled over new hire By JTA Bret Stephens at alumni weekend at the University of Chicago, June 7, 2014. (Jason Smith via JTA) The publisher of The New York Times sent a personal letter to subscribers who canceled over the newspaper’s hiring of conservative columnist Bret
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Middle East, USAU.S. intelligence officials reportedly warned their Israeli counterparts to exert caution in sharing top secret information with Donald Trump’s administration for fear of it being passed to Russia and then to Moscow’s ally and Israel’s arch-enemy, Iran. Discussions between U.S. and Israeli security services prior to Trump’s inauguration on January 20 gave rise to concerns
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International, Middle East, USAHarry S. Truman was perhaps one of the most influential presidents of the 20th century. He oversaw the end of World War I and rose to the challenge of the Cold War. He was crucial to the creation of international organizations like the United Nations and NATO. But for many people, Truman is remembered for
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International, USAWASHINGTON — In tweets Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump said he had shared “facts pertaining to terrorism and airline flight safety” with Russian diplomats in an Oval Office meeting last week, confirming a key part of a news report his aides had denied the night before. Trump said he had shared the information in the
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International, USAA class action lawsuit alleging the Democratic National Committee worked in junction with Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign to keep Bernie Sanders out of the White House has been raging on in the courtrooms for months on end–and yet, most people have no idea of its existence, in large part thanks to the mainstream media’s total
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USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will sit down face to face with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Tuesday — and it’s likely to be awkward. The White House meeting comes a week after Trump signed off on a plan vehemently opposed by Turkey, which authorizes directly arming Syrian Kurds in the fight to
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International, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — The Trump administration hunkered down Monday evening following a report that President Donald Trump revealed highly classified information about the Islamic State during an already controversial Oval Office visit by Russia’s foreign minister and its ambassador to the United States. Top Cabinet-level officials tried to contain the damage caused by the report, but
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International, USAParadise lost Henderson Island has long been regarded as one of the most remote and pristine islands in the world, but trash washing up on shore is turning it into a landfill. J. Lavers 2015 Traveling by ship, it takes about 13 days to reach Henderson Island from New Zealand. Hidden in the South Pacific,
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International, The World We ShareWASHINGTON — The Trump administration accused Syria’s government on Monday of hanging hundreds of political opponents and other prisoners and burning their bodies at a military prison near Damascus, part of what the State Department called an egregious pattern of atrocities by Syrian President Bashar Assad. The State Department said the Syrian authorities may be
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Middle East, USALOS ANGELES — Brad Grey, who ran Paramount Pictures for more than a decade after a long and successful career as a TV producer, died of cancer Sunday at his home in Holmby Hills, his family said through a spokeswoman. He was 59. A former talent manager, Grey led the Paramount Pictures movie and television
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