Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), the top Democrat on the Senate”s Foreign Relations Committee, is urging the Trump administration not to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal, despite being one of a handful of Senate Democrats who opposed the deal to begin with, JTA reported on Wednesday. “If we violate a UN resolution, in the […]
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Middle East, USASam Nunberg, a former aide to Donald Trump from 2011 to 2015, speaks to Newsmax TV on April 6, 2017 (screen capture) WASHINGTON — Sam Nunberg has a “strange relationship” with Donald Trump. If anyone knows what it’s like to go through the wringer with America’s mercurial president, he does. Currently an independent public affairs
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USAWARSAW, Poland — The Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews was recognized with a top honor from the European Union for a project promoting Jewish cultural heritage. The Europa Nostra Prize, or Our Europe, was presented Wednesday at a ceremony at the Warsaw museum. Twenty-nine laureates from 18 countries were honored. Get The
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International, Jewish HistoryPresident Reuven Rivlin said on Thursday that he is considering issuing a special pardon for prisoners to mark the Jewish state’s 70th anniversary, which Israel will celebrate next year. “I am considering the possibility of advancing a special process of pardons in honor of the country’s 70th year,” said Rivlin during a tour of the
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Middle EastMONTREAL — Canada inaugurated a national Holocaust memorial in Ottawa as its government reportedly readied itself to formally apologize for turning away 900 European Jews from its shores on the eve of the Holocaust. The National Holocaust Monument – a stark, stylized Star of David in form — took a decade to complete at a
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International, Jewish HistoryDavid Friedman, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, said on Thursday that he believes Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria are part of Israel. “I think the settlements are part of Israel,” Friedman said in an interview with the Hebrew-language Walla website. “I think that was always the expectation when Resolution 242 was adopted in 1967.
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Middle East, USAThe World Jewish Congress (WJC) on Wednesday condemned threats to blacklist 150 Israeli and international companies for doing business in “occupied Palestinian territories.” The condemnation followed reports in Haaretz of a letter sent two weeks ago by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra”ad al-Hussein warning the companies that they would be added to
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International, Middle EastSeveral swastikas were found drawn on message boards outside two dormitory rooms in the same residence hall at Brandeis University. Public safety officers removed the images, officials at the Jewish-founded nonsectarian university said this week in a letter addressed to “Members of the Brandeis community.” Get The Times of Israel’s Daily Edition by email and
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAThe IDF announced on Thursday that it will put in place a closure of the West Bank and Gaza Strip beginning at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, ahead of the holiday of Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, which starts Friday evening. The closure is expected to last until midnight on Saturday, “depending on a
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastTrotsky portrayed as a butcher in the upcoming Russian television series bearing his name. (Courtesy) A hundred years after the Russian revolution, the Russians are claiming that a Jew was behind it — at least according to a new television drama. An eight-episode series entitled “Trotsky” argues it was Jewish revolutionary Leon Trotsky — and
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International, Jewish HistoryNearly two months ago, 42-year-old Niv Nehemia was fighting for his life after an Arab terrorist stabbed him repeatedly at the Yavneh supermarket where he worked as deputy manager. After making a remarkable recovery, Nehemia confronted his would-be murderer Thursday in court, an appearance Nehemia said was important to show the terrorist that neither he
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Middle EastThe Bnei Brak municipality has threatened to cancel the Tel Aviv light-rail train project if work on the route takes place on the Yom Kippur holiday as planned. NTA Ltd, which has been contracted to build the Tel-Aviv light rail, first informed the Bnei Brak Municipality that they would be carrying out underground drilling work
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastHundreds of protesters gathered outside of the Qatari embassy in Washington Thursday to protest the Hamas terror group”s refusal to return the bodies of two slain IDF soldiers killed in 2014, and demand that the Qatari government pressure Hamas to release their bodies to Israel. Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul were killed during Operation Protective
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Middle East, USATen Knesset members from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu”s coalition government have called on the Prime Minister to back construction in Israeli towns across Judea and Samaria, including in Hevron”s Jewish community. The letter, penned by MK Sharren Haskel (Likud) to Netanyahu days after the Rosh Hashanah holiday and signed by nine other coalition MKs, called
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