Rachel Miller is grating horseradish in preparation for her Seder — the Passover meal — as Mizgin, her husband Adris, and their three children — ages 12, 9 and 5 — watch her work. The family are refugees from Syria and they’re spending the year living with Rachel and her husband in a Boston suburb.
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Middle East, USAIsrael closed its border with Egypt Monday and called on Israeli citizens to leave the Sinai peninsula over fears of an “imminent” terror attack on the eve of the Jewish Passover holiday. The Israeli government barred its citizens from crossing to Egypt via the Taba crossing—but nationals were allowed to return—just a day after the
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Middle EastAfter meeting with IDF soldiers on Sunday, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin visited the Western Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, and met with the medical staff. Also present at the meeting were Health Ministry Director General Moshe Bar Siman Tov, and Galilee Medical Center General Director, Dr. Masad Barhoum. Since March 2013, more than 1,500 of
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBOSTON (Press Release) – The American Jewish Committee-New England was dismayed to learn that the night before the Passover holiday, the Tufts Community Union Senate (Tufts Senate) approved a resolution calling for divestment from four companies doing business with Israel. The resolution was proposed only this past Thursday and brought to a vote at the
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USASen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said Sunday that the Trump’s administration is “partially to blame” for Syria’s chemical attack last week, which killed about 80 civilians and was apparently orchestrated by President Bashar al-Assad. “I think it probably was partially to blame,” McCain said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday. “And Secretary [of State Rex] Tillerson
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Middle East, USASpanish police have arrested a Russian hacker accused of interfering in the 2016 presidential election at the request of U.S. authorities. Pyotr Levashov was arrested in Barcelona on 7 April on a U.S. computer crimes warrant, according to a spokeswoman for Spain’s National Court who wished to remain anonymous, the Associated Press reported. Levashov’s wife,
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International, USALOS ANGELES — In a long-anticipated report released Monday, Wells Fargo & Co. pinned the blame for its unauthorized-accounts scandal on weak corporate oversight, an unwatchful former CEO and the executive who led the bank’s community banking division. The San Francisco bank also said it would take back more than $47 million in pay from
Marvel artist Ardian Syaf will face “disciplinary action” after it was revealed over the weekend that he promoted an anti-Christian and anti-Semitic verse from the Koran in one of its books. Superhero fans know the X-Men as a team of “mutants” that fights against intolerance. The newest issue of “X-Men Gold,” however, included a reference
Honoring a campaign pledge to place conservative justices on the Supreme Court, President Trump called on new Justice Neil Gorsuch Monday to defend the Constitution instead of engaging in judicial activism. At a sunny swearing-in ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, Mr. Trump praised Justice Gorsuch as a conservative in the mold of the
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USAAugusta, Georgia (dpa) – Spanish golfer Sergio Garcia, a four-time runner-up in major tournaments, won the Masters in a playoff Sunday at Augusta National Golf Club against Justin Rose of England after a see-sawing final round. Garcia secured the tournament’s famous green jacket by sinking a 15-foot birdie putt on the first sudden-death hole, after
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International, Sports & Competitions, USAPope Francis will visit Egypt as planned in late April despite two bomb blasts at Coptic Christian churches over the weekend that killed at least 44 people, a Vatican official said Monday. The Islamic State militant group (ISIS), whose affiliate Sinai Province is waging an insurgency against the Egyptian state, claimed the April 9 bombing
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International, Middle EastCHICAGO — Videos of a United Airlines passenger being forcibly dragged from his seat on a Sunday overbooked flight at O’Hare International Airport have been viewed more than 1 million times, and the airline’s CEO on Monday called the incident “an upsetting event to all of us here at United.” “I apologize for having to
A Los Angeles radio personality’s claim that she was sexually harassed by Fox News host Bill O’Reilly in 2013 is being investigated by the cable channel’s parent company, 21st Century Fox. Lisa Bloom, the lawyer representing KFI talk radio host Wendy Walsh, told CNN on Sunday that 21st Century Fox attorneys say they will look
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USACHICAGO — A Cook County judge was killed and a woman was wounded in a shooting outside the judge’s South Side home Monday morning, a police source said. Associate Judge Raymond Myles, 66, and a 52-year-old woman were found outside the home around 4:50 a.m., police said. Myles suffered several gunshot wounds and was pronounced
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