Omri Casspi Israeli basketball champion Omri Casspi, now a forward for the NBA’s Sacramento Kings, is leading a drive to raise $200,000 for charitable organizations in his homeland. Casspi said his campaign is part of a wider mission to show the best of Israel to the world. The organizations selected are Yad Ezra, which feeds […]
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Middle East, Sports & Competitions, USAPublished with permission from Alternet. Dear Bernie, I don’t know what you’re going to do from here on, and I’m not going to advise you. You’ve earned the right to figure out the next steps for your campaign and the movement you have launched. But let me tell you this: You’ve already succeeded. At the
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USASTOCKHOLM, Sweden, June 9, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — An AJC leadership delegation just concluded a two-day visit to Sweden’s capital. The visit was highlighted by a private 90-minute meeting with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, who was joined by Foreign Minister Margret Wallström. The Chairman of the Jewish Community of Stockholm, Aron Verstandig, participated with the
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International, Middle East, USASAN DIEGO (SDONA)–The San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association said Wednesday Donald Trump is wrong in calling it radical and demanded a retraction from the presumptive Republican nominee. “The comments made by Trump have been misleading, blatant lies and even racist in nature,” said the organization’s president, Luis O. Osuna. “We call on other bar associations to
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-60th in a Series- Exit 36, East Willows Road, Viejas Indian Reservation By Donald H. Harrison VIEJAS INDIAN RESERVATION, California – I grew up watching cowboys and Indians in the movies and on television. Cowboys and Indians were enemies back then, but not anymore. Especially not here. Levi’s, which today we know as “jeans,” is one
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, USA“Israelis have to be bombed… it is wrong to maintain the State of Israel. It is an illegitimate creation” — Taher Herzallah, American Muslims for Palestine National Campus Coordinator By Max Samarov and Philippe Assouline On April 19th Jonathan Schanzer, a former US Treasury Department official, testified in Congress regarding the activities of the anti-Israel boycott movement
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAThe trajectory the presidential contest took over the last week could be seen from the tone and content of the speeches that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton gave Tuesday night — to Trump’s detriment. Trump insisted that his party’s voters could trust him to not let them down: He had to offer that reassurance after
NEW YORK — Now comes the hard part. Or maybe the harder part. Having made history as the first woman to lead a major party ticket, Hillary Clinton now enters a critical period of trying to cement her status in Democrats’ hearts and minds, not just with delegate math. To unite the party for a
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USA“We are stronger together.” That is the slogan Hillary Clinton’s campaign has adopted for their drive to elect the first female president in American history. In order to crash through that ultimate glass ceiling, however, the Clinton folks must convince Bernie Sanders and his die-hard supporters that getting together is a good idea. Sanders had
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USAWASHINGTON – The US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Tuesday evening to pass a resolution calling upon Germany to increase restitution support for Holocaust survivors in what one of the legislation’s sponsors described as a last chance to support the dwindling number of Nazi victims. The resolution, passed unanimously by a vote of 363-0 with
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International, Jewish History, USAWASHINGTON — At an event promoting his memoir Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said it was “stupid” for Donald Trump to single out a judge’s Mexican heritage and said the Republican presidential candidate should apologize and “get on script.” He did not, though, back away from supporting the New York real estate magnate. Instead,
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USAWashington (dpa) – US President Barack Obama has called Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders as final state primaries were held. Obama congratulated Clinton on winning enough delegates to secure the nomination and called her campaign “historic” and an extension of her life-long fight for middle-class families and children. He praised Sanders for “for
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USATony Blair has said that left-wing Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has no desire to win power, and accused him of standing by and allowing Syrians to be killed. In an extraordinary personal attack, Blair, who led the Labour Party until he stood down as prime minister in 2007, said in an interview with Bloomberg:
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International, USARepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump has estimated that his campaign will need $1.5 billion to compete against Hillary Clinton. Now the finance chair of the Republican Governors Association is predicting that Trump could fall well short of his goal. “Unless he’s willing to write a huge personal check, which is unlikely, I believe Trump will
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