International

Meg Whitman, Hewlett-Packard CEO and GOP fundraiser: I’m supporting Hillary Clinton

Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman, a high-profile Republican donor who served as a finance co-chair for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s 2016 presidential campaign, says she’s now supporting Hillary Clinton. “To vote Republican out of party loyalty alone would be to endorse a candidacy that I believe has exploited anger, grievance, xenophobia and racial division,” Ms. […]

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Shimon Peres on Tech, Terrorism and the Middle East

Shimon Peres is optimistic, which isn’t remarkable except that he also lives in Israel, home to one of the world’s most intractable conflicts. The 93-year-old former Israeli president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate has witnessed the many clashes with Palestinians and neighboring Arab countries from its inception. Though once a proponent of settlements who was

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Middle East

North Korea fires another missile towards Japan

North Korea has test fired another ballistic missile, this time landing in Japan’s Exclusive Economic zone”:http://www.un.org/depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/part5.htm, the first to reach the area since 1998. The zone extends 200 nautical miles from Japan’s coast and, whilst it’s within international waters, is under Japanese control. All coastal states are legally entitled to control such a zone under

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‘Then there is the man of horror’: Heinrich Himmler’s recovered diaries reveal both family man and monster

Diaries belonging to Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS and architect of the Holocaust, have been recovered in a Russian archive after being thought lost for more than 70 years. The diaries, which are being published in daily excerpts by the German newspaper Bild, cover 1938 and the crucial war years of

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International, Jewish History

Gina Barreca: So, white working-class men, why do you hate Hillary Clinton?

Why would folks who like country music vote for a guy who owns country clubs? Why, in other words, is Hillary Clinton doing worse with straight, white working-class men than any other demographic? According to myriad studies, polls and my friend Beverly Anne, “They watched (Donald Trump) on ‘The Apprentice’ and they think they know

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USA

Why Iran Will Never Proceed With The Proposed Plane Purchases

In deciding whether to formally prohibit plane sales that already seem commercially infeasible, Washington should consider one question: if the Islamic Republic is going to shoot itself in the foot, why refuse it the gun? In the continuing debate about the proposed Boeing and Airbus plane sales to Iran, the focus has been on whether

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Middle East, USA

Venice welcomes back Shylock in marking its Jewish history

Last week, an international, multilingual cast performed Shakespeare’s controversial play, “The Merchant of Venice,” in the secluded main plaza of the city’s historic Jewish Ghetto. It was the first time the play was performed in the iconic location. Enclosed by tall tenements and the arched windows of 16 th-century synagogues, audiences — US Supreme Court

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History

JCPA pleads for civility in presidential campaign

NEW YORK (Press Release)–The Jewish Council for Public Affairs on Wednesday, Aug. 3, issued a statement pleading for civility in political discourse.  The statement follows: “This presidential election season, more than any in recent memory, has been marked with hostile, acrimonious, and demeaning rhetoric. Leading up to the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, in an

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