WASHINGTON — Senior aides to President Donald Trump repeatedly warned him not to deliver a personal attack on North Korea’s leader at the United Nations this week, saying insulting the young despot in such a prominent venue could irreparably escalate tensions and shut off any chance for negotiations to defuse the nuclear crisis. Trump’s derisive […]
A shallow magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck beneath the Pacific Ocean off the Northern California coast Friday afternoon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. No tsunami warnings were issued for the coast, according to the National Weather Service. The temblor occurred at 12:50 p.m. at a depth of 2.5 miles, according to the USGS. Its epicenter
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USAJustice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hailed herself as “a flaming feminist litigator” as she vowed to take on the majority conservative Supreme Court as it returns next month to tackle controversial issues such as gay civil rights, President Trump’s travel ban and partisan gerrymandering. “There is only one prediction that is entirely safe about the upcoming
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USAIn many parts of the world, Jewish custom holds that a tombstone be placed on the one-year anniversary of one’s death. For the late Israeli politician Shimon Peres, that anniversary is being marked by the release of his autobiography. In many parts of the world, Jewish custom holds that a tombstone be placed on the
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Middle East, USAThat a Russian hero of the Cold War could die in May, but his death go unmarked until this month, perhaps tells us everything we need to know about how Stanislav Petrov’s home country remembered his internationally famous actions. Petrov, 77, was largely unheralded in his own country, despite an act of bravery that likely
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International, USASAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Hurricane Maria reduced homes to heaps of wood and cement in the oceanfront settlement of La Perla, where hundreds of people picked their way down the rocky hillsides strewn with debris Thursday to salvage what they could from the wreckage. At the foot of an ancient fort, just outside the
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USAWASHINGTON — Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg bowed to mounting public pressure Thursday and announced that the social media giant would turn over to congressional investigators about 3,000 ads purchased during the 2016 presidential campaign by a mystery-shrouded Russian company with links to the Kremlin. Zuckerberg also announced that his company would take new steps
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International, USAIrving Berlin created music without formal training. And by himself. In 1918, while serving in the U.S. Army, he wrote the one and only “God Bless America.” When at first he couldn’t sell the song, he did what many songwriters do when such things happen: He stuck it in a drawer. Berlin dusted the tune
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Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USASAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A ferocious Hurricane Maria slammed Puerto Rico just before dawn Wednesday as some 3.5 million people girded for a day of vicious winds and drenching rain expected to devastate the American territory. The eye of the storm made official landfall at 6:15 a.m. near Yabucoa, about 45 miles southeast of
NEW YORK — Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday derided US President Donald Trump as a “rogue newcomer” and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the leader of a “rogue and racist regime,” and vowed that Tehran would respond “decisively and resolutely” if the Iran nuclear deal is remade or canceled. In an address to the
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International, Middle East, USAA Washington, DC, synagogue that hosted US president Barack Obama for a speech and counts Congress members and Cabinet officials as members has hired co-senior rabbis. Adas Israel announced Monday that it hired rabbis Lauren Holtzblatt and Aaron Alexander, both 40, to succeed Rabbi Gil Steinlauf, who left the congregation four months ago to create
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USABernie Sanders was among seven Jewish senators who sent a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday urging him to implement an agreement to expand an egalitarian prayer plaza at the Western Wall. Netanyahu’s cabinet put a hold in June on the deal passed in 2016, drawing the ire of American Jewish leaders.
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — The United States on Tuesday put South African twin brothers accused of plotting attacks on the US embassy and Jewish institutions onto its terror blacklist. Tony-Lee Thulsie and Brandon-Lee Thulsie were arrested in South Africa in July 2016. Get The Times of Israel’s Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories
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International, USACapt. Jon Cutler shakes the lulav and etrog with Jewish soldiers on the Sukkot holiday. (Courtesy) In 2008, under the energetic US Navy chaplain serving with the Marines in Anbar Province, Iraq, a plywood synagogue rose from the grounds of the American air base at Al-Asad once used by Saddam Hussein. It was the first
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