NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Thursday, March 2, condemned the vandalism of a Jewish cemetery in Rochester, NY. At least 16 headstones were toppled in the Waad Hakolel Cemetery in Rochester, also known as the Stone Road Cemetery, which has been in use by the local Jewish community since the
Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself Thursday from an investigation into contacts between the campaign of President Donald Trump and Russian officials. Sessions held a press conference Thursday addressing revelations that he held discussions with Russia’s ambassador during the 2016 election campaign. Attorney General Sessions recuses himself from any existing or future probes related to
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International, USALt. Gen. H.R. McMaster H.R. McMaster, President Trump’s newly appointed National Security Advisor, must ensure the new administration reverses a decades-old pattern of neglecting Iran’s nuclear-capable cruise missile capabilities and their importance to Iran’s nuclear weapons program. The White House had no trouble marshaling evidence for its decision to put Iran “on notice” last month
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International, Middle East, USA“Donald Trump made a mistake when he objected to my appointment as Deputy Secretary of State. He should have looked at who could help the Trump administration and not looked back at his campaign,” said Elliot Abrams in a Walla News interview. Abrams, who was Secretary of State Tillerson’s choice for his deputy, was rejected
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Middle East, USAApart from the vandalism and swastika graffiti discovered in the United States during the past few days, quite a few Jewish centers have received bomb threats. Some 100 schools and community centers over recent weeks have received such warnings in 33 states, plus two more in Canada. During a speech on Wednesday morning President Trump
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USAWASHINGTON — The U.S. military conducted airstrikes in the predawn hours against suspected al-Qaida positions Thursday across three provinces in Yemen, marking the first American attacks since an ill-fated Navy SEAL raid in January. Officials said the bombing runs against alleged al-Qaida targets in Abyan, Bayda and Shabwa provinces were planned months before the rare
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — The Senate easily confirmed Rick Perry as President Donald Trump’s energy secretary Thursday, six years after the former Texas governor famously promised to eliminate the agency he will now lead. The Senate voted 62-37 in favor of Perry’s nomination. The comfortable margin highlighted the general lack of rancor surrounding Perry’s nomination — even
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USAThere was no press honeymoon for President Trump during his first month in office. A meticulous new study by the Media Research Center finds that 88 percent of the broadcast news coverage of Mr. Trump and his team was “hostile” during the first 30 days of office. The coverage was intense and plentiful. The study,
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USATRENTON — A door painted with the Puerto Rican flag over the weekend was defaced by the building’s owner just days later with a swastika, inspiring the group of artists and others to host an anti-hate rally there on Saturday. Samuel Kanig said he received permission from the owner of the long-vacant building at Genesee
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USAAn Upper West Side Unitarian church near Central Park has been vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti. Swastika symbols along with the words “race office” were engraved on two wooden doors at the Fourth Universalist Society on Central Park West between 75th and 76th Streets, church officials said Wednesday. The parishioners at the Fourth Universalist Society found
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USAPerhaps President Donald Trump will feel the urgency to speak out fully and act more aggressively against the dramatic increase in anti-Semitic incidents if he realizes the threat affects his own family — namely, his daughter, Ivanka, a convert to Judaism; her Jewish husband, Jared Kushner; and his Jewish grandchildren attending the kinds of schools
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USAFederal investigators looking into the recent wave of bomb threats against Jewish community centers and schools believe the calls to be coordinated and conducted using “spoofing” and voice-masking technology, according to a report from BuzzFeed. The report cites Paul Goldenberg national director for Secure Community Network, a homeland security initiative formed by a number of
Police in York Region in Ontario, Canada, will increase patrols and presence at synagogues, Jewish community centers and other Jewish institutions across the region following recent threats to the Jewish community across the U.S. and Canada. Earlier this week, a swastika was found drawn on the board of a classroom in Toronto”s York University. Police
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InternationalTel Aviv (dpa) – Israeli photographer David Rubinger, best known for his image of Israeli soldiers standing awestruck in front of the Western Wall during the Six-Day War, has died aged 92, a family statement said on Thursday. Rubinger, who died Wednesday in Jerusalem, “eternalized history as it will be forever etched in our memories,”
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