International

COP urges Obama to support Israel in next U.N. battle

NEW YORK (Press Release) …Leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on Wednesday, Dec. 21, called on the United States to “unequivocally affirm” that it would veto any one-sided condemnatory United Nations Security Council resolution on the Palestinian-Israeli issue if it is presented to the Council for a vote. Stephen M. […]

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International, Middle East, USA

Britain’s 90-year-old Queen Elizabeth eases her workload – slightly

File photo: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip bid farewell to Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos and his wife Maria Clemencia de Santos following their state visit, at Buckingham Palace in London, Nov 3, 2016. [Photo/Agencies] LONDON – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth will step down as patron from a number of national organizations in the coming

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International

Erekat threatens: PLO will cancel its ‘recognition of Israel’

Saeb Erekat, Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), is threatening that the PLO will revoke all its previously signed agreements with Israel as well as its 1993 “recognition of Israel” if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his pledge to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Speaking at a

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Middle East, USA

Jewish pilgrims attacked at Ukraine tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav

Worshipers at grave of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav in Uman tear gassed by assailants described as neo-Nazis, fake blood and pig’s head left at site By Stuart Winer Jewish worshipers in Ukraine were tear gassed and the grave of Hasidic Rabbi Nachman of Bratlsav was smeared with fake blood and a pigs head in a

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International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion

James Taylor cancels Manila concert, protesting Philippine president’s war on drugs

MANILA — American singer-songwriter James Taylor canceled an upcoming concert in Manila to protest Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs, a campaign of extrajudicial slaughter that has claimed more than 6,000 lives. Taylor, a Grammy winner known for songs including “Fire and Rain” and “You’ve Got a Friend,” canceled the show — part of

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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

UN warns Palestinian population will double to 9.5 million by 2050

New report says projection should be ‘wake-up call’ to Israel, international community as crises surrounding faltering economy, infrastructure, electricity persist, especially in Gaza By Fares Akram Palestinian children and teachers hold placards during a protest against the reduction of educational programs given by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency at the Rafah refugee camp

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Middle East

Putin proclaims slain ambassador a hero of Russia

Moscow (dpa) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has posthumously honoured the ambassador to Turkey with the award of Hero of the Russian Federation for his “great contribution to conducting foreign policy,” the Kremlin said Wednesday. Ambassador Andrey Karlov, a career diplomat who had served for decades in North and South Korea before assuming the post

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International, Middle East

Colin Powell places third in presidential race at Electoral College

Colin Powell didn’t campaign or raise any money, but he outperformed every presidential candidate not named Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton at the 2016 Electoral College. The former secretary of state received three electoral votes Monday in Washington state from rogue Democratic electors who refused to vote for Mrs. Clinton, the winner of the state’s

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USA

Pollution is destroying probably the oldest Jewish cemetery in the Western Hemisphere

Among the thousands of people buried in a centuries-old Jewish cemetery in the Caribbean are men and women whose relatives would go on to establish some of the first synagogues in the US — in Rhode Island, New York and the US Virgin Islands. But their names may soon be lost to history. Just over

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International, Jewish History

Hezbollah using US-supplied weapons in Syria, says Israeli official

Tel Aviv (dpa) – The radical Islamist Hezbollah group is fighting in war-torn Syria with armoured transport vehicles from the US intended for the Lebanese army, an Israeli army official said on Wednesday. The senior military official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said it was unclear how Hezbollah had managed to obtain the vehicles

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Middle East, USA