WASHINGTON D.C. (Press Release)- The Republican Jewish Coalition announced Wednesday that former Senator Norm Coleman will be the coalition’s next National Chairman. Senator Coleman was elected to replace outgoing Chairman David Flaum, the organizations longest-tenured Chair. “I could not be more proud of what we at the RJC have been able to accomplish over the past 10 […]
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USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−It’s always risky to prognosticate the winners of the Academy Awards. While the nominees usually exemplify excellent filmmaking, which ones will garner the gold statuettes often reflect contemporary politics, personality issues, and studio lobbying. My predictions are based more on monitoring entertainment and trade publications than on my own tastes. BEST
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Lawrence Baron, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USALaw enforcement took control of the largest Dakota Access pipeline protest camp Thursday, arresting or moving the few dozen people who had remained in the mud and snow in one of the largest environmental protests in American history. “At 2:09 p.m., Oceti Sakowin protest camp was completely cleared by law enforcement!” the Morton County Sheriff’s
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The World We Share, USAATLANTA — South Carolina Democratic Party Chairman Jaime Harrison said Thursday that he was ending his candidacy to become head of the Democratic National Committee, leaving a race in which he failed to gain serious traction despite his longstanding ties to the party. “I know what a path to victory looks like,” Harrison said in
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USAThis story was co-published with The New York Times. When it comes to death, my family honors all of the Ashkenazi Jewish traditions: We name our children after dead relatives, we sit shiva for a week, we gather around trays of fruit and lox and cream cheese, we cover the mirrors, we say the Kaddish
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Jewish History, USASANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — Jon Ossoff told about 150 of his supporters Wednesday night that they had a chance to start the electoral backlash to President Donald Trump. Most of them hardly needed convincing from this Democratic congressional candidate — even if they live in the heart of a longtime Republican stronghold. “This is the
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USACome for the sea cow pictures, stay for the environmental policy Keith Ramos // Fish and Wildlife Service Even the fish love these big guys. The fightin’ sea cows are making a comeback. Manatees have been on the endangered species list since 1972, but in the last few years they’ve been more abundant than ever.
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The two men with the most heavily dissected relationship in President Donald Trump’s White House held a rare public appearance together Thursday and agreed on one common enemy: the media. Reince Priebus, the chief of staff who is often described as “embattled,” said he has grown “conditioned” to the media counting
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USAHabib Zahori was deep in the forest, his face and fingers going numb. He was lost, freezing and growing desperate by the hour. Like hundreds of refugees, Zahori was risking his life to sneak into Canada. But Zahori was not fleeing some war-torn country. He was running away from the US. Zahori worked as a
More than 300 scientists have urged President Trump to withdraw from the U.N.’s climate-change agency, warning that its push to curtail carbon dioxide threatens to exacerbate poverty without improving the environment. In a Thursday letter to the president, MIT professor emeritus Richard Lindzen called the United States and other nations to “change course on an
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The World We Share, USAReform Movement, Bend the Arc, ADL protest Trump Administration’s decision to have states decide transgender bathroom rules WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The Union for Reform Judaism, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism condemn President Trump’s decision, and resulting actions by the Offices of Civil Rights of
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USAI didn’t vote for Ross Perot in 1992. However, I have always remembered one line from the Independent candidate during the third presidential debate that garnered little attention. “If you hate people,” Perot declared in his Texas twang, “I don’t want your vote.” Perot didn’t proclaim himself “the least racist person there is,” or, “the
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USA(Image source: Twitter) On Wednesday, Vice President Mike Pence rolled up his sleeves and helped the cleanup efforts at a Jewish cemetery that was desecrated in a St. Louis suburb. Earlier this week, over 150 headstones were vandalized at the Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in what is being viewed as an anti-Semitic act. The Jewish
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USADemocrats need to push back harder against President Donald Trump if they want to win over voters in the next elections. Roughly 72 percent of all Democrats don’t think their leaders in Congress are doing enough to stop the president, according to a Pew Research Center survey published Wednesday. The poll titled “In Trump Era,
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