U.S. politician Madeleine Albright has announced she is “ready to register as Muslim” in response to Donald Trump’s impending immigration policies. Albright, the first woman to have become the U.S. Secretary of State in 1997, said she would stand in “solidarity” with followers of the Islamic faith if a registry was brought in by the
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USANow retired, Michael Shinagel reflects on his family’s flight from Vienna and how he, a boy who didn’t know English until age 7, earned a PhD in literature By Rich Tenorio CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — Seventy-five years ago, a young Austrian-Jewish refugee fled Nazi-occupied Europe with his parents and older brother. That 7-year-old boy named Michael
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Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAProposal could face ministerial vote next week; Chief Rabbinate claims High Court does not have jurisdiction over holy sites By Raoul Wootliff Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men yell and protest Liberal Jewish men and women as they hold a prayer service in front of the Western Wall, in Jerusalem’s Old City, on June 16, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastThe election of President Donald Trump is causing extreme reactions of support and dissent. The latter now includes a senior U.S. Secret Service agent who wrote in a Facebook post that she would not feel compelled to protect the nation’s new leader. Kerry O’Grady, the special agent in charge of the Secret Service’s Denver district,
Rome (dpa) – Rescue workers have recovered the bodies of all of those missing after an avalanche struck a mountainside hotel in central Italy, the fire service said early Thursday, bringing the death toll to 29. The four-star Rigopiano Hotel was struck by a massive avalanche last week, after a powerful magnitude-5 earthquake shook the
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InternationalU.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis will visit South Korea next week on his first trip since taking office to underscore the U.S. commitment to the alliance between two countries, the Pentagon said Wednesday. The trip, which is set to begin on Feb. 1 and also includes a stop in Japan, comes as tensions are
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International, USALatin American and Caribbean leaders, meeting in the Dominican Republic, have slammed Donald Trump’s tough immigration policies and border wall project. Most of the roughly 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States are from Latin America. The CELAC summit heard calls for the US President to respect migrants’ human rights. “The solution to stopping
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International, USAThousands of Gambians who fled following the recent political impasse are gradually returning home. The Banjul ferry terminal has been a hive of activity with both the internally displaced and those from exile seeking transport to their respective homes. The head of the Banjul Red Cross, Mr Omar Tafsir Demba Ndow, said they were offering
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InternationalVicente Fox is not holding back his words after Donald Trump signed an executive order to move forward with plans to build a wall on the border of México and the United States. The former President of México sent a tweet to Press Secretary Sean Spicer: “I’ve said this to Donald Trump and now I’ll
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International, USAA plan to temporarily suspend the U.S. refugee resettlement program has alarmed human rights activists, who argue that the new measures could separate families, further endanger those fleeing conflict and discredit America’s long legacy of providing safe harbor for the world’s most vulnerable people. Advocates for a more stringent immigration policy cheered the proposal being
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International, USAIn the history of flight pioneers, schoolchildren learn about the Wright brothers, Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart. But Thursday’s Google Doodle reminded the world of Bessie Coleman, a woman whose name may not be as well-known, but who is no less seminal in the history of aviation or civil rights. A black woman who was
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USAPresident Trump on Wednesday ordered the Homeland Security Department to begin releasing a name-and-shame list of sanctuary cities, listing the specific crimes such as murder or robbery committed by those who have been released back into their communities under the sanctuary policies. That was one of a number of less-noticed but potentially far-reaching moves tucked
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USAHAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — Do you ever dream of becoming the next Picasso? A new study at the University of Haifa comparing art and social science students has found that visually creative students evaluate their sleep as of lower quality. “Visually creative people reported disturbed sleep leading to difficulties in daytime functioning,” explains doctorate
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This is the first in a series of articles based in part on eyewitness accounts about the rapidly deteriorating socio-political conditions in Turkey and what the future may hold for the country. By Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — During the past few months I interviewed scores of Turkish citizens who escaped from Turkey following
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