Donald Trump’s comments about the NFL are starting to make Rush Limbaugh feel nervous, the conservative radio host said on his show Wednesday. Limbaugh, who has previously expressed his concern about Trump’s tweets, made his feelings on the president’s interference in the ongoing NFL protests clear on his show. “There’s a part of this story […]
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USA[youtube:2033774] An explosive new video shows Jewish Breitbart tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos singing ‘America the Beautiful’ in a Texas bar while white nationalists perform Nazi salutes in front of him. The video, which was reported on by Buzzfeed, was taken in April 2016 at the One Nostalgia Tavern in Dallas. As Yiannopoulos sings, white nationalists
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USA‘Bad Rabbi’ by Eddy Portnoy (Courtesy Stanford University Press) Thugs. Thieves. Blackmailers. Deadbeats. Murderers. These are the kinds of Jews who populate “Bad Rabbi and Other Strange But True Stories from the Yiddish Press,” a new book published this month by Stanford University Press. Contrary to what Hollywood, popular culture, and family lore would have
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Jewish History, USAJewish prisoners in Michigan are seeking class-action status in a federal lawsuit that claims they are being denied kosher meals. The lawsuit filed Monday in US District Court in Flint against the Michigan Department of Corrections claims there are 50 to 100 Jewish prisoners approved to get kosher meals and that requests to receive them
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Jewish Religion, USAZionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein has issued a press release publicizing the success of a campaign to bring about the cancellation of two planned Center for Jewish History’s (CJH) and American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS) programs. Spearheading the protests against the planned events and the choice of CJH head David Myers
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Several of my Internet friends have not reacted well to recent columnscritical of American government and society. It’s been charged that I don’t understand that country, and certainly do not appreciate its virtues. It rankles that I note social statistics falling below those of other democracies, and especially of Western
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Ira Sharkansky, USAALBANY, New York (Press Release)–The Bronfman Fellowship has announced that applications are now being accepted for the 32nd year of this prestigious program. The Bronfman Fellowship selects 26 outstanding North American teenagers for a rigorous academic year of seminars including a free, five-week trip to Israel in the summer between the Fellows’ junior and senior
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Middle East, USABy Jonathan A. Greenblatt NEW YORK — In recent weeks, we have once against seen a flare up around the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), otherwise known as the Iran Deal, this time over whether President Trump will recertify the deal, as he is required to do every 90 days. Two years later after
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release)–Stephen M. Greenberg, Chairman and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations issued the following statement: “The first two rounds of voting by the 58 member Executive Board of UNESCO for the election of the next Director General of the United Nations body responsible
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International, Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The clock appears to be ticking on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA); more than some may think, less than others may hope. Whatever President Donald Trump decides to do with the unsigned, unratified, unagreed-upon text of the untreaty, it should be clear that the agreement did not
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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USAAides to Donald Trump have reportedly adopted a babysitter-style strategy for dealing with the president’s bad ideas: Instead of telling him “no,” they make an empty promise to come back to it later. The technique was detailed in a Politico report out Monday, just after Senator Bob Corker, a Tennessee Republican, tweeted the White House
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USAAs the number of people confirmed dead in Northern California fires rose to 11, officials are hoping that lesser winds Tuesday will allow firefighters to get a handle on the blazes that have ravaged upwards of 100,000 acres. The Yuba County Sheriff’s Department confirmed late Monday night that one person in the county had died,
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USABased on her new book “Raising Trump,” it doesn’t look like Ivana Trump will be accepting apologies from President Trump’s second wife and “showgirl” Marla Maples anytime soon. In the book, which was released on Tuesday, Ivana Trump, who was married to Donald Trump from 1977-1992, expresses her thoughts and feelings towards Maples, whose headline-making
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USAOscar winners Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie have revealed that they, too, were victimized by disgraced Miramax and Weinstein Co. mogul Harvey Weinstein. Weinstein was credited with helping to launch Paltrow’s career, aiding in her Oscar win for “Shakespeare in Love” and turning her into the “first lady of Miramax.” Before that, though, Paltrow claimed
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