The father of the Israeli teenager accused of sending the bulk of the bomb threats to Jewish institutions in the US and around the world apologized to US Jewry on Israeli television Monday night. More than 120 bomb threats had been sent to Jewish institutions across the US since January. The father of the suspect, […]
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Middle East, USAMelania Trump has had her photo taken hundreds of time as a model and the wife of a prominent real-estate magnate. Now the White House has released the most important picture ever of President Donald Trump’s wife—her first portrait as first lady of the United States. The photograph shows Melania Trump in an all black
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USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump held private meetings Monday with one of the United States’ most important Arab allies, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, kicking off a week of high-stakes international diplomacy. El-Sissi arrived at the White House just before noon EDT. Trump emerged from the West Wing to greet the Egyptian leader — the first
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — On the eve of his inauguration, President Donald Trump turned to his daughter Ivanka and joked that he “sort of stole” her husband, Jared Kushner. With a trip to Iraq, announced on Monday following his arrival in Baghdad, it became clear that Kushner’s role in the Trump administration has only grown bigger since
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, won approval Monday on a party-line vote from the Senate Judiciary Committee, setting the stage for a filibuster showdown on the Senate floor later this week. At the same meeting, Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware announced he would provide the crucial 41st vote
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USAFox News was hit with another sexual harassment claim Monday, as on-air contributor Julie Roginsky filed a lawsuit against the network’s former chief executive Roger Ailes and its current co-president Bill Shine. The suit filed Monday in New York State Supreme Court is the latest legal salvo in what has become a spiraling crisis for
CUENCA, Ecuador — Ecuador’s ruling party candidate Lenin Moreno on Monday extended his lead over former banker Guillermo Lasso even as the opposition vowed to challenge the results. And while the National Electoral Council has not declared a winner yet, across the Atlantic there was one man who seemed to be gloating. WikiLeaks founder Julian
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International, USAOne of the most high profile North Korean defectors in modern history warned the United States that the reclusive regime’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un was maintaining power through the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of long-range attacks – and would use a nuclear bomb against the nation if he felt threatened. Thae Yong
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International, USASusan Rice, who Newsweek once described as former President Barack Obama’s “right-hand woman,” was at the center of unmasking Trump administration officials, a new report concludes. Eli Lake, who broke the story for Bloomberg View, wrote on Monday morning: “White House lawyers last month discovered that the former national security adviser Susan Rice requested the
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International, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – The United States District Court for the District of Columbia (D.C.) has rejected efforts by the American Studies Association (ASA) to suppress a lawsuit filed against the Association by its own members challenging the ASA’s adoption of a boycott of all Israeli academic institutions. The judge ruled in favor of the
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BERKELEY (Press Release) — The extensive body of work of an artist and illustrator whose subjects spanned some of the most profound events of the 20th century will be available to the world in a public institution for the first time, thanks to a $10.1 million gift from Bay Area-based Taube Philanthropies to The Magnes
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAA New York teacher has come under fire for giving an assignment asking students to debate the final solution from the Nazis’ point of view, The Algemeiner reported. In the assignment, titled “Top Secret: Memorandum for Senior Nazi Party Members,” students were asked to recreate the debate that took place at the infamous Wannsee Conference,
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Jewish History, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s no surprise that Americans vote their interests. Most likely, citizens of all countries with a meaningful right to vote are parochial, i.e., most concerned about what’s close to them. For many, national political matters are less important that what they get from local authorities– whether their streets and parks are
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USANegotiations said put on ice after Netanyahu, Greenblatt fail to agree on formula; comes days after Israel announces self-imposed restrictions By Times of Israel staff Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Jason Greenblatt, US President Donald Trump’s special representative for international negotiations, at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, March 13, 2017. (Matty Stern/US Embassy
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