You may have seen one of Micah Bazant’s posters in the window of a local business or, more recently, at a protest somewhere in America. After President Donald Trump signed an executive order limiting immigration and suspending the U.S. refugee resettlement program last week, you’re probably going to start seeing a lot more of them. […]
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International, Middle East, USAA federal judge’s ruling temporarily lifting a ban on travel to the US from certain countries triggered confusion in airports worldwide as airlines began boarding American-bound flights and federal lawyers took steps to reinstate the ban. As the impact of the ruling took hold, President Donald Trump lashed out on Twitter early Saturday morning, referring
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International, Middle East, USAThe Louvre in Paris re-opened on Saturday morning, 24 hours after a soldier patrolling the museum shot a machete-wielding attacker, believed to be an Egyptian who entered the country on a tourist visa a week ago. The Friday incident has thrust security and the terror threat back into the limelight three months before elections in
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International, Middle EastJim Mattis not planning to boost troop numbers in the Middle East US imposes fresh sanctions Tehran denounces them as “illegal” Military exercises have got underway in Iran. The country’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC):http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7064353.stm, a branch of the armed forces, say the exercises show Tehran is prepared to confront the threat posed by what
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Middle East, USAAt meeting of 27 European countries, officials tell ISA chairman Shmuel Hauser they are ‘concerned’ about fraudulent Israeli industry, ask him what he’s doing about it By Simona Weinglass Israel Securities Authority chief Shmuel Hauser (Roni Schutzer/Flash90) Israel Securities Authority Chairman Shmuel Hauser was asked to explain what Israel is doing to tackle binary options
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International, Middle EastSEATTLE—In one of the strongest blows yet to President Donald Trump’s controversial immigration ban, a federal judge in Seattle on Friday ordered an immediate nationwide halt to enforcement of the order that has caused havoc at airports and sown confusion among thousands of visa holders and refugees. The temporary restraining order from U.S. District Judge
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International, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Robert Fulford is known in Canada as a distinguished journalist and public intellectual of note. He has warm personal ties to the Jewish community and is a great supporter of the State of Israel. His latest column in the National Post has the title, “Israel always seems to be
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International, Middle East, USABy Steve Kramer ALFEI MENASHE, Israel — With everyone in the US and Israel either apprehensive, worried, or elated with the change of American administrations, the world turns. This week I was irritated enough by an article in the Boston Globe (which I read courtesy of the watchdog (HonestReporting.com) to write a letter to the
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Middle East, Steve KramerKnesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein met yesterday with his counterpart, House of Representatives head Paul Ryan and afterwards with the head of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Senate, Bob Corker. At the meeting with Ryan Edelstein expressed his support for transferring the American embassy to Jerusalem and said that he would be happy if the
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — Kellyanne Conway, a top adviser to President Donald Trump, admitted Friday that she mistakenly cited a nonexistent “massacre” while defending the president’s order suspending entry to refugees and travelers from seven majority-Muslim nations. Conway’s backtrack came on Twitter, hours after she received widespread criticism for an MSNBC interview in which she cited “the
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Middle East, USANearly 60,000 visas were revoked after President Donald Trump’s executive order to suspend refugee resettlements and other admissions from seven predominantly Muslim countries, a government lawyer said in a Virginia federal court Friday. The revelation came during a hearing on a lawsuit filed against the president’s order last week by visa holders prevented from entering
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International, Middle East, USAValletta (dpa) – EU leaders agreed on a plan to stem the flow of migrants via the Mediterranean at a summit in Malta on Friday, yet they repeatedly found themselves addressing the elephant in the room: US President Donald Trump. The summit, which ended on Friday evening, came as the European Union finds itself under
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By Yoni Peres, DVM TEL AVIV, Israel — At the top of the cliff, just like Noah’s Ark after the flood, overlooking the Tel Aviv skyline, stands a unique building – the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History. Just a few steps away, in an old building at the Tel Aviv University’s Department of Zoology, Professor Tamar Dayan, the
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Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We Share, Yoni PeresSeeking to seal ‘ultimate deal,’ new president is not rushing to dramatic changes. He doesn’t mind Israel building in settlements blocs, but could soon push for two-state solution By Raphael Ahren Donald Trump’s grandiose pre-election promises notwithstanding, the new president is starting to make it fairly clear that he will neither quickly move the US
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