[video:2034098] A 12-year-old boy from the Jewish community in Hevron was injured Saturday afternoon when an Arab hurled rocks at the victim and at two other Jewish children in Avraham’s Spring. The large rock caused a cut to the boy’s head, and he temporarily lost consciousness, falling into the spring. Miraculously, the boy survived the […]
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — It was just the other morning that I saw and heard the anguished yet determined report of a mother whose soldier-son was killed in that ambush in Niger. The news media, which drowns us with equal parts information and hyperbole, was trying to extract a statement from her—a
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USASome popular children’s gadgets, including smartwatches available internationally, have been found to have security flaws so serious that individuals could track and eavesdrop on kids’ conversations, according to a consumer safety panel in Norway. The Norwegian Consumer Council (NCC) reviewed the smartwatches with European security company Mnemonic and found gross invasions of privacy. When the
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InternationalNew Zealand will have a center-left coalition government led by the nation’s youngest prime minister in more than 150 years. When New Zealanders voted in a general election almost a month ago, neither of the two major parties, the center-right National party, which had been in power for nearly a decade and won more seats
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USAlas vegas shooter note The suite rented by Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock will remain locked indefinitely as hotel employees work to preserve evidence related to the shooting. MGM Resorts International, which owns and operates the resort and casino, announced Thursday that they will not rent the 32nd-floor room following the Oct. 1 massacre that
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USAA key member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has joined a chorus of congressional Democrats calling for Ivanka Trump’s security clearances to be reviewed because her failure to fully divest herself from her business empire poses serious potential for conflicts of interest. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), the ranking member of the GOP-controlled committee, is
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USABy TOI staff The official Palestinian mission to Colombia on Thursday night tweeted a quote from former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat calling for the destruction of the State of Israel. The tweet read, “Our goal is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromises or mediations…. We don’t want peace. We want WAR
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International, Middle EastDubbed the “Czech version of Trump” by Forbes, the wiry, grey-haired, Slovak-born farming, media and chemicals mogul is the Czech Republic’s second-richest man. Andrej Babis set up the populist ANO (Yes) party in 2011 as a political outsider determined to lure voters with promises of clean politics in the EU country of 10.6 million ranked
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InternationalWASHINGTON – Patrick Kennedy, it seemed, had been waiting for a public opportunity speak directly to the nation’s health insurers. “The historic treatment of addiction and mental illness has been a separate and unequal process,” the former Rhode Island congressman and a member of the president’s opioid commission told a group of insurance executives on
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAA senior North Korean official said in Moscow Friday that Pyongyang does not plan to discuss its nuclear program with the U.S., insisting Washington would have “have to put up” with the reality it possesses nuclear weapons. “This is a matter of life and death for us,” North Korean Foreign Ministry official Choe Son-hui told
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International, USAThe US Central Intelligence Agency thinks that North Korea’s Kim Jong-un is a rational actor who is focused on staying in power and “waking up in his own bed” each day. But if Kim should suddenly not show up for work, well, don’t ask US spy chief Mike Pompeo about it. “With respect to, if
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International, USAThe new head of the World Health Organization has named Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe a goodwill ambassador for the agency, a move that has startled public health experts. The WHO director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, made the controversial announcement on Wednesday in a speech at a global conference on non-communicable diseases in Montevideo, Uruguay. Tedros, as
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InternationalWASHINGTON — The government of Mexico has aligned itself with municipalities suing the state of Texas over a new law that, if implemented, would crack down on sanctuary cities, arguing that the state’s action hurts Mexico’s relationship with Washington. Lawyers for the Mexican government argue that Texas Senate Bill 4 creates unnecessary tension in relations
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International, USABy Anna L. Peterson, Professor of Religion, University of Florida. Once in a while, life provides us with the kind of dramatic moral dilemma that even the most imaginative ethics textbook writer couldn’t think up. Presently, my community – the University of Florida and the city of Gainesville – faces a dangerous and complicated series
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