Suspect is one of a group that allegedly beat the pair, and a girl who was with them, when they mistook them for Arabs By Times of Israel staff Illustrative photo of an Israel Police patrol car. (Moti Karelitz/Flash90) Police arrested a 16-year-old youth on Sunday suspected of attacking three Jewish Israelis on Friday evening […]
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Middle EastA scientific poll conducted in the United Kingdom involving interviews with more than 10,000 British Jews finds 80 percent see growing anti-Semitism, especially among left-wing Labor Party politicians. Almost a third of them said they have considered leaving the U.K. over the past two years because of anti-Jewish bigotry. The findings are part of a
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InternationalInternational March of the Living expressed its “profound disappointment” with the organizers of the March for Racial Justice, which is being planned for this Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. “Especially in light of recent events in Charlottesville, where prejudice and hatred against Jews, African Americans and others were painfully evident, we
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USAHurling accusations of mental illness at opponents is nothing new in politics. But on Friday, Representative Zoe Lofgren went a step further, tabling a resolution for President Donald Trump to undergo a medical and psychiatric evaluation to determine if he is fit to hold office. The San Jose Democrat said in Congress that the results
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWe all think we know Curious George, the rambunctious primate who’s been entertaining children since his first book was published in 1941. He’s been in television shows, blockbuster movies and video games, shaping the lives of countless children. But a new documentary, Monkey Business, tells the story of the iconic children’s character on film for
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAWASHINGTON, August 20, 2017 – In July 1945, the crew of an American heavy cruiser anchored at a Pacific island named Tinian, gazed up as the ship’s metal crane lowered a large and mysterious crate to the dock below. Unnoticed by the crew was the balding man walking down the rear gangplank, a lead-lined case
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International, USAFERGUSON, Mo. �� A Missouri state senator Sunday apologized for a Facebook post that hoped for the assassination of President Donald Trump, saying, “I made a mistake.” But Maria Chappelle-Nadal, a Democrat who critics say should resign, did not indicate any willingness to do so. At a news conference held at Wellspring Church on Sunday,
In a display of solidarity after Thursday’s Barcelona attack, Lebanese soldiers raised a Spanish flag alongside their own on a Syrian-Lebanese border hill seized from the Islamic State militant group (ISIS). Lebanese military launched its operation in the Jurud Ras Baalbek and Jurud al-Qaa region early on Saturday on the country’s eastern border with Syria,
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International, Middle EastFormer California governor blasts Trump for his comments on Charlottesville, recalls childhood in post-Nazi Austria in warning to white supremacists By Times of Israel staff Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger lambasted US President Donald Trump on Thursday for his failure to unequivocally condemn participants in a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend. In
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International, USAYaakov Menken President Trump was roundly criticized for failing to call out neo-Nazis or the KKK by name in his first statement on the tragic violence in Charlottesville last weekend. Even many others in the GOP, including Marco Rubio and Orrin Hatch, indicated that the President should have been specific. Yet the fact that the
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Middle EastMark B. Toubin I attended Robert E. Lee High School in San Antonio, Texas from 1977 until 1981. The following is an open letter I penned to my classmates regarding the school’s namesake. Dear Classmates of Robert E. Lee High School’s Class of 1981, We graduated among 535 diverse members of a thriving high school
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USAThe scores of people carrying flaming torches and chanting “Jews will not replace us” last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, bore the message of the “alt-right,” the name given to the white supremacist movement dedicated to eradicating religious and ethnic minorities from America. This racist uprising will be followed by at least nine rallies this weekend—ostensibly
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USAMiriam Jefferson of Texas and Kalavati Mistry of Leicester finally tie the knot after 20 years By Times of Israel staff A Jewish woman and her longtime Hindu female partner have married in a traditional Hindu ceremony that British media is reporting as apparently the UK’s first interfaith lesbian wedding. Miriam Jefferson of Texas met
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International, USADick Gregory, who became the first black stand-up comic to break the color barrier in major nightclubs in the early 1960s, a decade in which he satirized segregation and race relations in his act and launched his lifetime commitment to civil rights and other social justice issues, died Sunday. He was 84. His death was
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