Jake Tapper is calling out Ivanka Trump for her stance on the citizens of Syria following the United States’ retaliatory airstrike. After the horrific sarin gas attack against Syria’s citizens Tuesday, which killed over 100 and injured at least 300, the United States conducted a successful airstrike against Shayrat air base late Thursday evening. On
Britain’s foreign minister, Boris Johnson, canceled plans Saturday to visit Moscow, just hours before he was due to depart London, as tensions escalated between the U.S. and Russia over Syria. Russian leaders, who have dubbed as illegal the U.S. action to punish the government of President Bashar al-Assad for its use of chemical weapons, ramped
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International, Middle East, USAThe United States is moving a Navy carrier strike group towards the Korean Peninsula, a move that is likely to heighten tensions in the region amid ongoing concerns over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. (more) Credit: U.S. Navy A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Reuters news agency that Carrier Strike Group
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International, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Micha Goodman is one of the most interesting young scholars of Judaism in Israel today. His books on two seminal works of Medieval Jewish philosophy – Moses Maimonides’ Moreh Nevuchim and Yehuda Halevi’s Kuzari – have been best sellers in Israel, as has his third book on Deuteronomy, Moses’
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Middle EastOver 100 volunteers, police searching for Sivan Lavi whose 12-year-old died in a tragic accident two days ago By Times of Israel staff A picture of Sivan Lavi released by police on April 8, 2017. (Israel Police) Hundreds of volunteers and police were searching the Tel Aviv area for a woman who went missing Saturday,
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Middle EastA Syrian man who survived a Sarin gas attack that occurred in 2013 appeared on CNN with Brooke Baldwin Friday and praised President Donald Trump for striking a Syrian military airfield with Tomahawk missiles in response to a sarin gas attack, calling for him to take matters a step further against Bashar al-Assad. Kassem Eid’s
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Middle East, USATel Aviv – Israel planned to arrest former Palestinian President, the late Yasser Arafat, and deport him from the West Bank in 2002, a former high-ranking Israeli official revealed Friday. Former Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said he and then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had planned the arrest of Arafat under the “Operation of the
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Middle EastAssassinated outside the Kremlin, the dissenting politician has become something of a cult figure and is the subject of films, poetry and song By Julie Masis Two years on, Russia hasn’t forgotten the tragic murder outside the Kremlin of Boris Nemtsov, the Jewish anti-Putin politician. He’s become something of a cult figure in a country
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International, Theatre, Film & BroadcastSpringfield, Pennsylvania authorities are investigating an attack on a Jewish cemetery in which 30 headstones were vandalized. On Friday, Springfield resident Mora Ezra discovered the vandalism while visiting Mt. Sharon Cemetery to pay respects to her father. However, it is not clear when the vandalism actually occurred. Photos taken show headstones broken in half or
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USANew York/Washington (dpa) – The US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, warned that the United States could follow up a military strike on a Syrian airbase with further action, in an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Friday. The US fired dozens of missiles at a Syrian airbase suspected of being the
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International, Middle East, USAThe suspect in Stockholm’s deadly beer truck attack is a 39-year-old native of Uzbekistan who had been on authorities’ radar previously, Swedish authorities said Saturday. The prime minister urged citizens to “get through this” and strolled through the streets of the capital to chat with residents. Earlier on Saturday, Swedish police said they had arrested
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InternationalBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — At Pesach, fifteen years ago, Netanya suffered what became known as the Passover Massacre when a Palestinian suicide bomber walked into the banqueting hall of the Park Hotel and blew himself up as citizens gathered for the Seder service which recalls the Jewish people’s liberation from cruelty and oppression
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Barry Shaw, Middle EastBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM — Over the years I have attended many performances of Handel’s Messiah, but no matter where it was performed (England, America, France, Israel) it was always sung in English. George Frederick Handel wrote the oratorio using the text devised by Charles Jennens, based on the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer.
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsLos Angeles (dpa) – Folk singer Joan Baez, the grunge band Pearl Jam and the late rapper Tupac Shakur joined music history on Friday as they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Also included in the Hall of Fame’s class of 2017 were the bands Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), Journey, prog-rock
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