By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Is it an extraordinarily thick skin, an incurable addiction to power, or the conviction of being the one and only leader of the State of Israel in our time – or perhaps all this and much else – that keeps Binyamin Netanyahu in power as the longest consecutively serving […]
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Middle East, USABy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — There is a place for power in politics. It should be obvious, but the use of power has often been absent in the policy of nation states. The world is currently suffering from the lack of American power projection. This diffident strategy has not been beneficial to America
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International, Middle East, Steve Kramer, USAPHILADELPHIA — The highest-paid college president in the U.S. in 2014-15 was Jack P. Varsalona, who collected $5.4 million for 2014-15, his last full year at the helm of Wilmington University, a private, non-profit Delaware-based institution, with more than 21,000 mostly part-time students and no tenured faculty. That’s according to the Chronicle of Higher Education’s
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAPHILADELPHIA — Green Party-backed lawyers moved their fight for a recount of Pennsylvania’s Nov. 8 presidential election results to a new venue Monday, hoping a federal judge would be receptive to their claims of potential irregularities with electronic voting machines across the state. In a complaint filed in federal court in Philadelphia, the lawyers asked
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USAUpdates previous stories OAKLAND, Calif. — As criminal investigators begin to examine who is to blame for one of the worst fires in modern California history, Oakland authorities halted their grim search for bodies in the ruins of a warehouse blaze on Monday due to structural weaknesses in the fire-gutted building. “For us as firefighters,
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JERUSALEM– Last week Thursday at 7:00 pm, Yuval Mizrachi, who just two months ago became a father for the first time, was sent out by his wife to pick up a pizza for dinner. He had just picked up a family-sized pizza in his hometown of Ganei Tikvah when his United Hatzalah walkie-talkie alerted him that
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — With a mission to share the holiday joy with San Diego’s homeless community, Teens About Goodness (TAG), a community-based humanitarian teen initiative, coordinated a Thanksgiving food drive, distributing hundreds of warm food packages to San Diego’s homeless population. Teen volunteers gathered on Thanksgiving eve to pack 500 gift bags, each
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San Diego County, USANetanyahu says he will speak with Trump about ‘bad nuclear deal’ with Iran (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that he is looking forward to speaking with President-elect Donald Trump about the “bad nuclear deal” with Iran. “Israel is committed to preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. That has not
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Middle East, USABy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — While the Dollywood theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee was spared by the wildfires that consumed thousands of acres in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the death and destruction resulting from the fires has moved Dolly Parton to help those left in need. With funding from Dollywood as well
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Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Pearl Harbor with President Obama later this month, becoming the first Japanese leader to visit the site of the attack 75 years ago that killed more than 2,300 U.S. servicemen and thrust the U.S. into World War II. Mr. Abe announced the visit Monday, six months after Mr.
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International, USAOAKLAND, Calif. — They had come together out of their love for electronic music and the underground scene that it fostered. The concert had been in the works for almost two months, billed on social media as a tour for the musicians associated with the Los Angeles-based label 100 percent Silk. The location was secret
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USAWASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Ben Carson, a rival in the GOP presidential primary who became a top supporter, to run the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Trump chose Carson despite the pediatric neurosurgeon’s protestations that he lacked the experience to run a federal agency. The announcement Monday that Carson has been
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USAPrime Minsiter Binyamin Netanyahu addressed the 16th annual Saban forum at the Brookings Institute Sunday. The Prime Minister was asked during the forum what his plans to deal with the threat of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons will be after President-elect Donald Trump takes office. Netanyahu reiterated his longstanding position on the threat Iran poses to
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Middle East, USAFormer porn star says anti-Semitic abuse from ‘loathsome monster’ is her ‘first welcome to being Jewish and hated for it’ By Stuart Winer and Raoul Wootliff Jenna Jameson ( s_bukley / Shutterstock.com) Former porn mega-star Jenna Jameson, a recent convert to Judaism, blasted the white supremacist David Duke as an “evil” and “loathsome monster” early
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