Featured Images-16 She hasn’t even officially joined the royal family yet, but Meghan Markle is already setting fashion trends just like her soon-to-be sister-in-law, Duchess Kate. In fact, a nearly $700 burgundy leather tote from Strathberry sold out mere hours after Markle was spotted carrying it on her first royal appearance with Prince Harry. Watch […]
LOS ANGELES — Colin Kaepernick, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback who launched a protest movement last year when he refused to stand for the national anthem before NFL games, was honored Sunday at the ACLU of Southern California’s annual Bill of Rights Dinner in Beverly Hills. Kaepernick was awarded the Eason Monroe Courageous Advocate
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By Beth Sarafraz The Jewish Voice, November 20, 2017 BROOKLYN, New York — Racing thru the pages of R’ Yosef Mendelevich’s autobiography, “Unbroken Spirit: A Heroic Story of Faith, Courage, and Survival,” Rabbi Heshy Ceitlin kept having the same thought. “Chani,” he said to his wife, “We have got to bring this man to
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — About the Nazi Holocaust, one Christian historian has written: “The fact that it could take place in the heart of Europe, in the middle of the 20th Century, carried out in the name of what had seemed to be and in many ways was the most developed of nations,
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International, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s hard to know whether to jeer or simply chuckle at the efforts of Likud MKs, being portrayed by the media as parliamentary clowns, who went beyond the normal to provide what they said was protection for their Prime Minister, but actually was nothing of the kind. The country is
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Judah Ari Gross The Israel Defense Forces this year again failed to reach the goal for ultra-Orthodox military enlistment set by the government, falling 20 percent short of the target. They made up for it with a record number of women joining combat units, an army official said Sunday. “We didn’t fulfill our mission,”
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Middle EastBy TOI staff Several coalition lawmakers, including prominent defenders of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, cried foul Sunday over the timing of the revelation of a year-long graft and organized crime investigation surrounding coalition whip MK David Bitan. Bitan was questioned by police on Sunday morning, hours after 17 Rishon Lezion city officials were arrested as
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Middle EastAfter taking an overnight bus to Poznan in Poland for an exhibition on Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, two Portuguese sisters are now standing in front of a curious blue suggestion box. “Who can tell us what happened to the missing painting or where we can find it?” reads a sign next to
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts[youtube:2035690] President Trump”s senior advisor and son-in-law drew praise from the Yesha Council, the umbrella organization which represents Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, following his appearance at the Saban Forum in Washington on Sunday. The president”s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, took part in the annual Saban Forum on Sunday, answering questions from the forum”s sponsor,
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Middle East, USAPalestinian leaders were seeking Sunday to rally diplomatic support to persuade US President Donald Trump not to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital after suggestions that he planned to do so. Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas was holding a series of phone calls with world leaders to “explain the dangers of any decision to move the embassy
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Middle East, USAIsrael won’t allow Iran to entrench itself militarily in Syria, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Sunday. His remarks, in a taped message to a forum in Washington, came just a day after Israeli aircraft attacked a suspected Iranian base outside Damascus and could suggest the Middle East is entering a new volatile phase in
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Middle EastA bombshell report suggests that Saudi Arabia will buck its commonly held belief that relations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) are key towards establishing relations with Israel and are ready to sign a deal with the Jewish state, even if the PA opposes it. Prime Minister Netanyahu’s former national security advisor Yaakov Nagel
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Middle EastBy Sue Surkes Followers of an influential Sephardic rabbi will from now have to avoid looking at the country’s NIS 50 banknote because the poet whose image adorns the bill was married to a Christian woman. Rabbi Benzion Mutzafi issued his ruling after pulling the offending note out of his pocket during a weekend lesson
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Middle EastAttorney General Avichai Mandelblit decided on Sunday to close the case against MK Nissan Slomiansky (Jewish Home), who had been accused of sexual harassment and indecent assault. The Justice Ministry said in a statement that “after the Attorney General examined all the evidence and opinions presented to him, from which it was seen that there
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