Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan said he’s dissatisfied with the FBI’s decision not to recommend federal charges against Hillary Clinton for her use of a personal email account during her time as secretary of state in the Obama administration. He wants the government to deny Clinton access to briefings on classified materials should she as […]
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USAAccording to a report in the Kuwaiti-based Al Jarida newspaper, Kenyan security forces foiled an attack targeting Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s convoy during his visit to Kenya earlier this week. A senior security official told the paper that Kenyan police altered the convoy’s route just before its departure from the Nairobi airport. The change was
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International, Middle EastKIGALI, Rwanda — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected international criticism of his recent decision to build additional housing units in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. The US State Department, the UN and the European Union have harshly criticized those plans, which were announced after two Israelis — a 13-year-old girl and a father-of-10 —
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International, Middle East, USAConservative and Reform Jews held a mixed-gender egalitarian service at the Western Wall plaza on Thursday amid jeering from a handful of protesters but few other disturbances. The organizers said they complied with an attorney general order not to pray at the site and held a singing and dancing service instead. “It passed totally quietly,”
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastStrains of the Israeli national anthem “Hatikvah” overpowered the sounds of morning rush hour as some 200 protesters demonstrated outside the Supreme Rabbinical Court at the entrance to Jerusalem on Wednesday morning. The protest was organized by former students of New York Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, the former principal of the Ramaz High School and spiritual
MK Ya’akov Peri (Yesh Atid), the former head of the Israel Security Agency (ISA, also known as the Shin Bet or Shabak), has expressed support for the demand from the parents of Mohammed Abu Khdeir, the teenager who was murdered by Jews in 2014, that the homes of the murderers should be demolished just like
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Middle EastAs the United States ambassador to Austria in 1986, Ronald Lauder underwent what can only be called a life-changing experience. With the fraying of the Iron Curtain, the billionaire businessman-turned-diplomat was witness to a mass emigration of Russian Jewry to the West. For many Russian emigres, Vienna was meant to be a steppingstone to brighter
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International, USAThe parents of a Palestinian teenager beaten and burned to death in Jerusalem two years ago have petitioned Israel’s High Court of Justice for the demolition of his three Jewish killers’ homes. On July 2, 2014, three Jewish men, led by 31-year-old Yosef Haim Ben-David, kidnapped 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir from an East Jerusalem neighborhood.
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Middle EastThe rate of intermarriage in the UK has reached more than one in four, according to the Institute for Jewish Policy Research. The report, titled “Jews in Couples: Marriage, Intermarriage, Cohabitation and Divorce in Britain,” offers both positive and negative approaches towards the issue. On one hand, it shows that Jews are accepted in the
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International, Jewish ReligionBy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — The report that was recently released by the Middle East Quartet – comprised of the United States, Russia, the European Union, and the United Nations – is a welcome step. The report reiterates the importance of reaching a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians on the basis of
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Alon Ben-Meir, Middle EastThis story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a hot and lazy afternoon in Palm Beach, Fla., the only sign of movement is the water gently lapping at the grounds of Mar-a-Lago, the private club that is the prize of Donald Trump’s real
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USAEfraim Zuroff has accomplished much in his long career, but there’s one thing he’s particularly proud of: He’s the most hated Jew in Lithuania. His Lithuanian friend Ruta Vanagaite agrees: She called him a “mammoth,” a “boogeyman” and the “ruiner of reputations”—and that’s just in the introduction to a book they co-authored. Last summer, in
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International, Jewish HistoryWASHINGTON — The Republican National Committee is seeking copies of thousands of work-related emails that Hillary Clinton stored on her private computer server but failed to turn over to the State Department despite its repeated requests, according to a public records request obtained by McClatchy. The RNC sent the request to the State Department this
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USAU.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump on Wednesday defended a controversial image he posted on Twitter mocking his political rival Hillary Clinton. The image featured Clinton against a backdrop of hundred dollar bills and a red six-pointed star, most commonly known as the Jewish Star of David symbol. The text on the star read: “Most corrupt
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