By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — Benny Ganz and Yair Lapid came onto the stage together and announced the launch of the new Blue and White coalition to lead the country after the upcoming Israeli elections. Benny Ganz said that his mother and Lapid’s father lived in the same ghetto in Budapest during the Holocaust years. […]
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Barry Shaw, Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL –Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the opinion for a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling banning excessive seizure of property by law enforcement agencies following an arrest. According to a New York Times story, she said excessive seizures violate the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing equal protection of
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By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – President Trump has nominated a replacement for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. He is Jeffrey Rosen, who currently serves as Deputy Transportation Secretary under Secretary Elaine Chao, the wife of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. .. Jared Kushner and Michael Flynn are persons of interest
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Palestinian Authority (PA) finally found a terrorist act committed by a Palestinian against an Israeli from which it wishes to disassociate. The horrific rape and knife murder of 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher prompted Qadura Fares, head of the PA-affiliated Prisoner’s Club to say, “From our perspective, this (rape) becomes a
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By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL– President Donald Trump, echoing comments by Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsay Graham of South Carolina, said that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein engaged in “illegal and treasonous activity” when, according to former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, he questioned whether there would be enough Cabinet officers willing to remove President Trump
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By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – The interview of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe by Scott Pelley of CBS’s 60 Minutes show has set off a controversy following McCabe’s comments that in the wake of the firing of FBI Director James Comey, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein volunteered to wear a wire to
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, USABy Edwin Black WASHINGTON, D.C. — When International Farhud Day was proclaimed at a conference convened at the United Nations headquarters on June 1, 2015, its proponents wanted to achieve more than merely to establish a commemoration of the ghastly 1941 Arab-Nazi pogrom in Baghdad that killed and injured hundreds of Iraqi Jews. Jews had thrived
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Edwin Black, International, Jewish History, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We’re now in a hot spot, a few days before the parties must finalize their existence and candidates prior to the April election. And who knows how long before the announcement about Bibi’s indictment? Each newscast provides us with commentary, and often another survey. Intellectually, it’s a mess. But we
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By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson told Roger Stone, his defense attorneys, and prosecutors not to make any statements that might prejudice a jury in the case in which he is accused of lying to Congress in its probe of possible Russian connections to President Trump’s successful
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International, Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego Calendar, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — U.S. Rep Ilhan Omar’s two-part twitter outburst alleging that Jewish money finances congressional support for Israel probably reflects the thinking of many racial minorities and, for that matter, numerous whites. Israel, they believe, is the Goliath in the Middle East that is seizing Palestinian land, massacring unarmed demonstrators, and
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Middle East, USABy Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL — In order to build a border wall, President Trump decided on Friday to declare a national emergency, prompting a constitutional crisis over whether he legally can reprogram money previously allocated by Congress for other purposes. U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, told The New
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — Over the past year, I had the opportunity to speak to many Turkish scholars and former government officials, the majority of whom left your country because they feared for their lives and their loved ones. The one question that kept on surfacing is why a leader like you—who has
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the sidelines of the international conference on Iran currently being held in Warsaw. Netanyahu thanked Pompeo and Vice President Mike Pence for pulling together the conference in which “an Israeli prime minister and the
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, USA, Yeruchem Eilfort-RabbiBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Obviously, Israelis will have a special interest in the outcome of the upcoming elections, and I’m sure they know more about the issues than I do. For people outside Israel, the election campaign seems complex and confusing. Yet I’m certain that the outcome is extremely relevant also for Jews
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