Every year, Jews around the world seek repentance before the holiday of Yom Kippur through an atonement ritual known as kapparot. In exchange for a donation, a rabbi gently waves a chicken over one’s head, reads a blessing, and then the bird is humanely slaughtered according to Jewish dietary laws. Animal rights groups have repeatedly […]
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Jewish Religion, USALondon mother Claire Mann, 43, was arrested several days ago after she sent threatening text messages to Roz Page, another mother at her daughter’s school. According to Mann, Page’s daughter did not invite her daughter to a birthday party. Mann also sent threatening texts to the wife of a local rabbi in 2013. Mann attempted
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InternationalA federal judge on Thursday ordered Virginia officials to extend the state voter registration deadline through Friday night, following website problems that prevented some residents from signing up to participate in next month’s election. The decision came after the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law on Tuesday filed a legal complaint asking the federal
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USAFour Russian navy warships are on their way to the Mediterranean Sea led by Russia’s large and only aircraft-carrier Admiral Kuznetsov. The contingent from Russia’s Northern Fleet was spotted sailing past the Norwegian city of Bergen Wednesday, after the fleet announced the deployment in state media over the weekend. Besides Admiral Kuznetsov, the Kremlin is
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International, Middle EastMilwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke said Friday that the Obama administration’s silence on the dirty election tricks linked to Hillary Clinton’s campaign that were exposed by undercover videos has further diminished the public’s trust in the federal government. Mr. Clarke, who is black, called the incidents in which pro-Clinton operatives planted operatives at Donald Trump
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USASen. Jeff Flake said it is time for Congress to move forward as if Hillary Clinton is president-elect and plan to take up President Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick B. Garland to the Supreme Court during the lame-duck session of Congress. “I said if we were in a position like we were in in ’96
IRBUL, Iraq — With an offensive underway to oust Islamic State from the northern city of Mosul, militants staged a surprise attack early Friday about 95 miles south in Kirkuk. “It was expected that (Islamic State) sleeper cells would make a move in Kirkuk one day,” Kirkuk Gov. Najmaldin Karim told the Kurdish news agency
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Middle EastMexican officials are scrambling to find former governor of Veracruz Javier Duarte de Ochoa. It is being reported that the former politician who has been accused of criminal charges is missing. According to FOX News Latino, Duarte de Ochoa stepped down from his position last week to respond to corruption allegations. Since his departure, Mexican
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InternationalNorway’s migration and integration minister has faced calls to resign after telling the country’s Muslim immigrants they must adapt to a society in which “we eat pork, drink alcohol and show our face.” Sylvi Listhaug, a member of the country’s populist, anti-immigrant Progress Party, made the comments in a Facebook post Monday. “I think those
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International, Middle EastElite Iraqi forces retook a town on the eastern edge of Mosul on Thursday while Kurdish peshmerga fighters opened a new front in the offensive to wrest back the Islamic State (IS) group’s last major bastion in Iraq. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told an international meeting in Paris that the four-day-old offensive was “advancing faster
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International, Middle EastNEW YORK — The day after the final presidential debate, where each charged the other with being a crook, a liar and a puppet, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton honored a tradition that had them sitting down to dinner together to exchange jokes. It was an awkward night. The customary self-deprecating addresses candidates have been
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USAFormer House Speaker Newt Gingrich said he no longer believes in the presidential polls, saying the odds are very high that Republican nominee Donald Trump can defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton if he stays on message and sticks to both the teleprompter and big ideas. “I think the polls are wrong,” Mr. Gingrich said on Fox
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USABeijing, Manila agree to handle maritime disputes properly, in what expert calls a ‘welcome U-turn’ China and the Philippines agreed on Thursday to properly handle their maritime disputes and restore the bilateral ties soured by the South China Sea dispute. The development is a “welcome U-turn” in the bilateral ties, said Jia Duqiang, a senior
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InternationalHours before his headline-making appearance at Thursday’s 2016 Al Smith Dinner in New York City, Republican presidential nominee walked off an interview with an NBC affiliate in Ohio. The interview started off well enough. Trump and WCMH’s Colleen Marshall spoke of his recent comments about the upcoming presidential election possibly being rigged against him. Marshall