The Jewish governor of Missouri, Eric Greitens, said on Tuesday that he will volunteer to help repair a St. Louis-area Jewish cemetery where at least 170 gravestones were toppled over the weekend. Greitens in a news release cited the concept of “tikkun olam,” or repair of the world, and asked helpers to bring rakes, garbage […]
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USALeah Alder, the mother of world famous filmmaker Steven Spielberg, passed away Tuesday in Los Angeles at the age of 97, Adler, born in Cincinnati to Jennie and Philip Posner, was raised in an observant Jewish household. She married Arnold Spielberg in 1945 and had four children: Steven, Anne, Sue, and Nancy. As an Orthodox
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USANEW YORK (Press Release)– The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday received an anonymous bomb threat called into its national headquarters in Midtown Manhattan. After a careful investigation and cooperation with law enforcement, it has been determined that the threat was not credible. Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO, issued the following statement: “Today, our national headquarters in
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USANEW YORK (Press Release)– The American Jewish Committee (AJC) announced on Wednesday that Dr. Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, former president of Latvia (1999-2007), will keynote its gala to launch the AJC Central Europe office on Monday, March 27, at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. The gala evening is the centerpiece of a
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International, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – A bomb scare delayed the opening of the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center on Tuesday, the same day local newspapers reported a dispute between the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and the Marine Corps Recruit Depot over the former’s request for permission to erect a menorah on the base
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, USAWASHINGTON — Even as the newly installed Environmental Protection Agency chief sought to calm employees anxious about his longtime opposition to the agency, Scott Pruitt managed to rattle them a little more. Concerns about the direction he will take the EPA grew with publication over the weekend of his first interview as agency chief. During
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USAWASHINGTON — Days after he declined to denounce anti-Semitism, President Donald Trump finally condemned the reported increase in anti-Semitism in the United States that has been linked to his political rise. But it wasn’t enough. Trump was immediately pressed to speak more forcefully about the issue and to take specific steps to tackle hate crime
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USAHomeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly officially ordered federal agents this week to begin arresting and deporting more illegal immigrants, releasing them from the handcuffs the Obama administration had imposed, and making headway on one of President Trump’s chief campaign promises. While young adult illegal immigrant “Dreamers” are still exempted, agents were told there are
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International, USABy Shoshana Bryen and Stephen Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The president is being asked by the Pentagon to provide U.S. ground troops to fight ISIS in Syria. If the president is wise, he will run as fast as he can the other way. There are four potential traps here: • The cost in American lives;
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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, Stephen D. Bryen, USAUS Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley blasted the UN for its obsession with Israel during an address to the Security Council. “I just put out to the members of the Security Council to help me understand: When we have so much going on in the world, why is it that every single month we”re
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International, Middle East, USAUS President Donald Trump on Tuesday decried anti-Semitic threats against Jewish community centers as “horrible” and “painful,” promising to work to bridge divisions in the country. “This tour was a meaningful reminder of why we have to fight bigotry, intolerance and hatred in all of its very ugly forms,” Trump said in remarks after visiting
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USAThe White House on Monday night denounced the recent bomb threats against Jewish community centers across the United States, saying such actions are “unacceptable”. “Hatred and hate-motivated violence of any kind have no place in a country founded on the promise of individual freedom,” White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said in a statement in
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USAFormer Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton condemned a string of anti-Semitic incidents and demanded President Donald Trump do the same when she took to Twitter Tuesday. In her tweet, Clinton referenced a series of bomb threats that targeted Jewish Community Centers throughout the country Monday. Jewish Community Centers in 10 states were evacuated in response
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USAAfter a weekend in which Jewish Community Centers and graveyards in many states were vandalized, Ivanka Trump spoke out. RELATED: Yet another major retailer has dropped Ivanka Trump’s line from its website The elder daughter of the President of the United States converted to Judaism after she married her husband, White House senior staffer Jared
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