By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Israel just became the fourth country to send a spacecraft toward a moon landing, a feat previously accomplished only by the United States, Russia and China. In addition to scientific equipment, the craft, named Beresheet, also contains a digital time capsule that includes drawings of the moon […]
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Middle East, Trivia, Humor & Satire
LONDON (Press Release) — British Home Secretary Sajid Javid initiated action on Monday that will designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization in its entirety. The order is effective March 1, pending Parliament approval. “Hezbollah is continuing in its attempts to destabilize the fragile situation in the Middle East – and we are no longer able
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International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We’ve come to the end of the period for registering parties and listing their candidates. It was a hectic final day. Two clusters formed, one to the right and one in the center. Prime Minister Netannyahu postponed a visit with Vladimir Putin so he could pressure what remained of Jewish
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – The Associated Press was credited with three stories involving Jews in Sunday’s San Diego Union Tribune. In one, Democratic U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein of California had an impromptu debate with students who demanded that she support the Green New Deal, which she responded would never receive enough votes
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Steve Kramer KFAR SAVA, Israel — On April 9, the citizens of Israel will return to the polls nearly four years after the previous election. Voting for the 22th Knesset in Israel’s short, 71-year history, Israelis hope that the new government will last the full four year term, which the current one, unlike most
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Middle East, Steve KramerBy Rabbi Dow Mamur JERUSALEM — The bad news of recent days has been Prime Minister Netanyahu brokering the union of ultra-right-wing parties in the hope of securing a majority for his bloc at the April 9 elections. The price is to give extremists seats around the next cabinet table. The most surprising, and the
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By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – U.S. Rep. Mike Levin accompanied by fellow Democratic Congressmen Steny Hoyer, Juan Vargas and Scott Peters visited the San Diego-Tijuana border, with Levin telling the San Diego Union-Tribune, “I see no crisis other than the crisis the president is manufacturing.” Meanwhile The New York Times reported that U.S.
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By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – Her patience sorely tested, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson warned President Trump’s former campaign aide Roger Stone that he will get no more chances if he violates a court order to remain mum about his upcoming trial in which he is accused of lying to Congress regarding
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Elena Ferrante’s novels about her childhood in a run-down Naples neighbourhood and her life subsequently focus to a great extent on her friendship with Lina, a.k.a. Lila, the girl who dominated her life as a child and to some extent as an adult, too. The character of Lina
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle EastBy 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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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA
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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