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Jews in the News ~ February 18, 2019

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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Farhud Day marks the murderous Nazi – Arab alliance

By 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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Will Likud finalize Netanyahu bid for P.M. again?

By 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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Jews in the News ~ February 17, 2019

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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Responding to anti- Israel propaganda

By 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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Jews in the News ~ February 15, 2019

By 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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Jews in the News: February 14, 2019

By 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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Jews in the News: February 13, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – Democratic U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon has asked Google and Apple to remove from sale an app developed in Saudi Arabia to permit Saudi husbands to track, monitor and thereby control the movement of women in their families.   According to The Washington Post, Wyden denounced Saudi Arabia’s

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Jews in the News ~ February 12, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL –Nita Lowey and Richard Shelby, chairs respectively of the House and Senate Appropriations Committee, along with members of their committees, hammered out a tentative deal to avoid a second government shut down in the face of President Trump’s demand for a wall at the Mexican border.  According to a

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Jews in the News: February 11, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison THE OMAR AFFAIR– Responding to a comment by Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota that Members of Congress support Israel because “It’s all about the Benjamins,” that is $100 bills, and that AIPAC pays the members to vote for Israel, Matt Brooks, executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, called for

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