Moments of sudden clarity in political developments can strike anywhere and at any time, as I experienced in relation to the Palestine-Israel conflict while riding the F-train subway from Brooklyn to Manhattan Tuesday morning. Three separate stories I read in the press during that subway ride explain the sudden clarity I experienced on this complex […]
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Middle East, USAFor today’s 50th anniversary of Star Trek, we could have compiled a list of best and worst episodes, but that’s kind of been done before. Instead, we wanted to pay tribute to the comic genius of the original Captain Kirk, who has been regaling fans with his Kaufmanesque style of humor for almost as long
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAAccording to an article in Highline about US Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka, a friend of Ivanka’s noted a correlation between the occurrence of the Jewish Sabbath and holidays and Donald Trump’s more outstanding Twitter faux pas. The friend attributed the correlation to the fact that Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner are not
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Jewish Religion, USAWASHINGTON — Donald Trump says he wants to end long U.S. military entanglements. But he has also repeatedly said the U.S. should have seized Iraq’s oil after the 2003 invasion — an undertaking that would have been illegal, required decades of occupation by hundreds of thousands of troops, increased the risk of casualties and probably
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama called North Korea’s latest nuclear test a “grave threat” to regional security and international stability and again vowed to take “additional significant steps,” including sanctions, against the rogue state. North Korea’s fifth test, which South Korean officials called its most powerful to date, demonstrates that the communist nation has no
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine said Friday that the Republican presidential ticket’s recently citing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s strong leadership in his country compared to President Obama is “unpatriotic” and demonstrates an “irrational hostility” toward Mr. Obama. Mr. Kaine was asked about GOP vice presidential nominee Mike Pence’s comments to CNN Thursday that it’s
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International, USAPeople from Syria, lucky enough to have escaped the civil war alive, then to make it all the way to the United States as refugees, have stepped into a political free-fire zone. More than half of US governors, all but one of them Republicans, say that Syrian refugees are not welcome in their states. GOP
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International, USAWhen Delilah began working as an escort last year, she chose to blur her face in the photos she posts on her website and Twitter profile. The Ottawa, Ontario, college student made the decision in order to keep her sex work from her conservative Muslim family and so she can transition smoothly and without stigma
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USAMINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Republican Party Chairman Keith Downey said Friday that a lawsuit by the state’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party to strike Donald Trump and Gov. Mike Pence from the state ballot in November is “a blatant and frivolous attempt to disenfranchise so many Minnesota voters.” DFL Chairman Ken Martin filed the petition Thursday with the Minnesota
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USANEW YORK — NBC News Chairman Andy Lack is standing up for Matt Lauer after the “Today” co-anchor was torched for his moderating skills at Wednesday’s “Commander In Chief Forum.” Lack issued an internal memo to staffers late Friday congratulating them on the news division’s one-hour special, in which presidential nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald
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By Donald H. Harrison SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, California – The giant sequoias can be awe-inspiring and not only for their size, says Matt Fagan, the National Park Service’s district interpreter. “There was a gentleman named Walter Fry who back in the early part of the 20th century (circa 1920) was a lumberman and he cut
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By Jerry Klinger It‘s an unusual statement, “He did what no Jew could do.” Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel coined it. She coined it to recognize the special service of Rev. John Stanley Grauel to Israel. Rev. Grauel served as a secret Haganah Agent on the famed Holocaust Refugee ship the Exodus. Yet, Meir’s
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International, Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Middle East, USAColin Kaepernick deserves comparison to Rosa Parks, according to the president of the NAACP. Cornell William Brooks said there is a line linking Parks’ refusal to stand in a Montgomery bus to give up her seat to a white person to Mr. Kaepernick’s refusal to stand during “The Star-Spangled Banner.” “It’s a lofty name, but
NEW YORK (Press Release)– In reverence for the memories of the innocents and fallen heroes, and solemn resolve that preventing more such terrorist tragedies will remain a central moral imperative of our era, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) marks the fifteenth anniversary of September 11, 2001 – a date that changed the world. On that