By Darren Schwartz SAN DIEGO — This week I would like to highlight an incredible teen who chose to do something pretty unique with her summer. Sydney Schenk is a rising senior at the San Diego Jewish Academy. This summer Sydney was selected to be a North American fellow for Camp Szarvas (SAR-vash), an […]
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International, San Diego CountyBy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — In a recent speech, President Trump raised the possibility of his likeness being added to those of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt at Mount Rushmore. He may well have been joking about the prospect, as he suggested. But, in any case, mention of Mount Rushmore inspired
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Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAJERUSALEM (Press Release) –A swastika was spray-painted on one of the buildings of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, which resides in Hebrew University’s Mount Scopus campus in Jerusalem. This is the second time in two weeks that swastikas have been found at the Hebrew University campus. Last week, students were shocked to discover
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationHAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — Do you assume that adding a smiley to work-related emails can help you make a positive first impression? A new study has found that a smiley is not regarded the same way as a smile, and can actually have a negative impact on the initial impression created in formal work-related
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Between the lines, if not clearly in the lines of nearly every news broadcast is the question of how close are police investigators to the Prime Minister. Except for what seems to have been a temporary uptick in tensions about the Temple Mount, Jordan, and Jaffa, we’ve been dealing with
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastAliza Lavie Last month saw a historic success in the fight against prostitution in Israel: the Knesset gave unanimous preliminary approval for a bill incriminating the clients of prostitution and providing rehabilitation services to survivors of prostitution. It was a bill I submitted along with colleagues from across party lines in the Knesset, which is
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Middle EastA week after Netanyahu took credit for African nation’s ostensible decision, its president says he has no say in foreign policy By Raphael Ahren Prime Minister Netanyahu (right) meeting with Cape Verde President Jorge Carlos Fonseca during a summit in Monrovia, July 4, 2017 (screen grab YouTube) Cape Verde on Tuesday denied that it had
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International, Middle EastUnder plea deal, servicemen will serve at least two years in prison, pay damages, be demoted to private By Judah Ari Gross Illustrative photo of an IDF soldier in military court (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90) An IDF serviceman pled guilty to raping a female soldier in his unit on Wednesday, a military official said. In May, Military
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Middle EastPrince Harry and Meghan Markle arrived in the royal’s “second home” of Botswana late last week in celebration of the “Suits” actress’s 36th birthday. While they’re reportedly staying in Africa well into August, the couple, who also just celebrated their one year anniversary, spent their first night with some of Harry’s closest friends. “It was
WASHINGTON — It is a mysterious episode ripped from the pages of a Cold War spy novel. Despite ostensibly improved ties between the U.S. and Cuban governments, the State Department on Wednesday confirmed it had expelled two Cuban diplomats from Washington because of an “incident” in Havana that harmed U.S. personnel there. State Department spokeswoman
Court decision comes two years after Yehoshua Elitzur was arrested in Sao Paulo, ending a decade-long manhunt By Jacob Magid Yehoshua Elitzur (screen capture: Channel 2) The Brazilian Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to extradite an Israeli settler convicted of killing a Palestinian taxi driver in 2004, local media reported. The decision came two years
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International, Middle EastSeveral decades ago, President Ronald Reagan advocated building an intercontinental missile defense system that would shield the United States from a first-strike missile attack by an enemy. Likened to shooting down a bullet with another bullet, the Strategic Defense Initiative would defend the U.S. homeland by firing an intercepting missile that would safely disable an
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International, USAWASHINGTON — An FBI raid last month at one of the homes of Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, provides the clearest evidence so far that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is aggressively pursuing the investigation into the campaign’s dealings with Russia and of possible wrongdoing by Manafort. Agents served a warrant at
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USAAs North Korea and the United States increase rhetoric on Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program, long-held taboos are being broken in neighboring Japan – the only country to have suffered nuclear bombardment, at the end of World War II. Analysts say the debate over whether Tokyo should develop nuclear weapons of its own is moving from
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