Iran is working to block access to the geographical navigation application Waze due to its Israeli background, the Azerbaijan-based Trend News Agency reported on Monday. Access to the app was temporary blocked in March, but the ban was removed later, according to the report. Abdolsamad Khorramabadi, secretary of the Iranian cyberspace watchdog, said on Monday […]
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Middle EastTrudeau sets an ominous tone by erasing Jews from the genocide memorial Last week, Canada became the most recent industrialized country to officially commemorate the Holocaust by dedicating its first National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa. However, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s unveiling of the monument also unveiled the glaring omission of any mention of Jews,
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International, Jewish HistoryAn Israeli philanthropist has made a six-figure grant to a hospital in northern Israel to fund treatment for Syrian children who have suffered hearing loss as a result of their country’s civil war. Morris Kahn’s pilot grant to Ziv Medical Center in Safed is part of the Genesis Prize Foundation’s global initiative to aid refugee
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationTens of thousands of people from Israel and around the world marched in Jerusalem on Tuesday to mark the Jewish festival of Sukkot. The Jerusalem March, which each year is attended by thousands of pro-Israel supporters, passed through the heart of the capital, leading to road closures and snarling traffic. Get The Times of Israel’s
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastMuch of a Reform Jewish summer camp has been wiped out by forest fires sweeping across northern California. The Union for Reform Judaism’s Camp Newman, an hour north of the San Francisco Bay, has been “mostly destroyed” by the fires burning in the Sonoma and Napa Counties, the camp posted on Facebook Tuesday evening. Camp
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Editor’s Note: The following sermon was delivered during the recent High Holy Days by Rabbi Shalom Lewis of Congregation Etz Chaim of Atlanta, Georgia By Rabbi Shalom Lewis The words I am about to share will be riddled with controversy. Some will squirm in their seats and I will squirm here on the bima but
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — At the start of Donald Trump’s presidency, Sen. Bob Corker reacted like most other Republicans to the daily White House outbursts and tweets. He largely withheld criticism and called for patience as the new administration settled in. Corker, though, stood out by sometimes letting slip what he was privately thinking — an eye
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USADALLAS — Houston high school senior India Landry had sat through the Pledge of Allegiance in the classrooms of at least six teachers — about 200 times, she says, with zero trouble. That is, until the 17-year-old landed in Principal Martha Strother’s office at Windfern High School in Houston. As the Pledge of Allegiance streamed
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USAWASHINGTON — Longtime California Sen. Dianne Feinstein has made it official: She’ll run for a sixth term in 2018. “I’m immensely proud of my service in the Senate and all I’ve done to help the people of California and the nation. But there’s still so much work left to do, from ending gun violence, to
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USAOne person has died and at least 1,500 homes, businesses and other structures have been destroyed as more than 14 fires ravaged eight counties throughout Northern California on Monday, authorities said. The death was related to the Redwood Valley fire in Mendocino County, according to the Mendocino County coroner’s office. The vast devastation over just
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USAUS economist Richard Thaler on Monday won the Nobel Economics Prize for his pioneering work bridging the gap between economics and psychology, the jury said. “By exploring the consequences of limited rationality, social preferences, and lack of self-control, he has shown how these human traits systematically affect individual decisions as well as market outcomes,” the
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International, USAFirst lady Melania Trump has responded quickly to claims by the president’s first wife, Ivana Trump, that she was the actual “first lady.” “Mrs. Trump has made the White House a home for Barron and the President,” a spokesperson for the first lady said in a statement. “She loves living in Washington, DC and is
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USAHarvey Weinstein lured TV reporter Lauren Sivan into a quiet place in 2007 and then engaged in a “disgusting and kind of pathetic” display of sexual harassment, Sivan said in her first television interview about the encounter. Appearing Monday on NBC’s “Megyn Kelly Today,” Sivan — who is now a reporter with KTTV, a Fox
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAOfir Dayan at Columbia University, New York, September 2017 (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel) NEW YORK — In September 2007, Iran’s then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered a speech at Columbia University in New York. Exactly a decade later, Ofir Dayan, a freshman at the school, asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he’d be willing to do to
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