NEWARK, N.J.—The sixth full day of deliberations at the corruption trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez came and went without a single note or question from the jury — and no verdict. Jurors emerged from 5{ hours of discussions Wednesday afternoon with their heads hung, seemingly fatigued. U.S. District Court Judge William H. Walls dismissed […]
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USAUCLA freshmen basketball players LiAngelo Ball, Cody Riley and Jalen Hill were suspended indefinitely by the school on Wednesday after returning from China where they were held last week for shoplifting. UCLA coach Steve Alford said at a news conference Wednesday that the trio will not take part in practice or games while the school
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International, USAAustralians voted in favour of allowing same-sex couples to marry, official results showed Wednesday, sending the task of legalising marriage equality to a deeply divided parliament. Almost 62 percent of the 12.7 million people who participated in the two-month postal survey voted in favour of allowing gay marriage, the Australian Bureau of Statistics announced at
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InternationalHungary expressed “shock” Wednesday at a US plan to finance independent media outlets outside Budapest, a move it called “intervention in an ally’s internal affairs”. Last week Washington announced a call for funding applications totalling some $700,000 (euros) for media projects outside the Hungarian capital. The bidding projects should aim to “increase citizens’ access to
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International, USABy TOI staff A Jewish member of the UK’s Parliament is under formal investigation by the British Labour Party for alleged sexual harassment, according to reports Wednesday. Ivan Lewis, the lawmaker representing Manchester’s Bury South constituency, was accused by a woman of stroking her leg and propositioning her at a Labour Party fundraiser in 2010,
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InternationalAttendees of the fourth annual Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom Muslim Jewish Women’s Leadership Conference held hands to form a circle around the entire room. Photos by Karen Mancinelli/Drew University Sheryl Olitzky, cofounder of the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom (SOSS), stood up before a largely female audience of some 630 Muslims and Jews and said, “For
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Middle East, USAAn unprecedented joint declaration released Wednesday by Members of Congress and Knesset has laid our core principles for a new paradigm to end the Israel-Palestinian Arab conflict ahead of an expected new push for Middle East peace by President Donald Trump. The declaration, signed by members of the Congressional Israel Victory Caucus (CIVC) and the
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Middle East, USAThe Genesis Prize Foundation announced Wednesday that US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would receive the foundation’s first ever Lifetime Achievement Award. The Genesis Prize, which was called the ‘Jewish Nobel’ by Time Magazine, recognizes Jewish people who have attained recognition and excellence in their fields. The foundation said that the five previous recipients
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USAPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with the leadership of the Jewish community in Hevron and the Chairman of the Yesha Council, who wished to thank him for his efforts to develop and strengthen the Jewish community in Hevron, and especially for the development of the Hezekiah quarter in the holy city. The meeting was attended
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The Jews are just like everyone else, but different. Also Israel. The country of the Jews is like others, but different. This note is provoked by comment from an otherwise rational friend that Israel’s real borders are the Jordan and the Mediterranean. And his question about my description of Israeli Arabs. Was
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s our problem, actually, and we’ve made it theirs. It is the West that simultaneously wants “the Arab Spring” and “stability.” Democracy and strong government control. Honest government and stable kleptocrats. Check out our split-brain reaction to the Palestinian Authority. By rights, the U.S. should have nothing to do with
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — On the face of it, it doesn’t look good. Israel seems to be under threat from its neighbors, its friends in the Diaspora and its own politicians. 1A. In the South, Islamic Jihad in Gaza, with Hamas turning a blind eye, appears to be planning retaliation for the devastating
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Middle EastBy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — The Jewish vote no doubt contributed to the Democratic sweeps in the series of election upsets last week. Sizeable Jewish populations were either long established or steadily evolved in many of the states and towns where Democrats flipped not only statewide offices but also local posts. Both Nassau and
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USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — I always used to associate the number ‘13’ with the bat mitzvah ceremony of my elder daughter Sari. I of course relived the joy three years later when my younger daughter Debra also handled the life-event with the effervescence and gifts they both manifest. Both my daughters love
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