Donald Trump’s Orthodox son-in-law Jared Kushner defended the President-elect from allegations of anti-Semitism and racism in an interview with Forbes. “You can”t not be a racist for 69 years, then all of a sudden become a racist, right?” Kushner said. “You can”t not be an anti-Semite for 69 years and all of a sudden become […]
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Middle East, USAPresident-elect Donald Trump said that he would “love” to make peace between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs, and that his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, could be involved in the process, during a meeting with the New York Times Tuesday. Reporters from the Times tweeted many of the things which Trump said throughout the meeting, including his
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Middle East, USAThree female officers also slated for promotion; Druze Israeli set to preside over army court for the first time By Judah Ari Gross Lt. Col. Dr. Avraham Yitzhak, poised to take over as medical officer of the Southern Command and become the IDF’s first colonel to come from the Ethiopian community. (IDF Spokesperson’s Unit) IDF
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Middle EastZOA calls on Trump to not appoint Gen. James Mattis as secretary of defense (JNS.org) The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) called on President-elect Donald Trump to not appoint Gen. James Mattis as secretary of defense, citing Mattis’s past comments conveying hostility to Israel and a lack of understanding of the threat radical Islam poses
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Middle EastEight years ago, when Moshe was barely two, his parents Rivka and Gabi Holtzberg were horrifically murdered along with six other people, by a group of terrorists in their Chabad House and home in Mumbai, India. Moshe himself was saved by his Indian nanny, Sandra, who managed to escape the scene holding him in her
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International, Middle EastPresident Reuven Rivlin this evening (Monday) laid a wreath at a memorial ceremony at the Taj Palace Hotel for the victims of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. The President was joined at the ceremony by Chennamanei Vidyasager Rao, Governor of Maharashtra state of India, as well as other senior state officials, leaders and members of
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International, Middle EastTrump’s chief strategist skips annual event after prior announcements he would speak; hundreds of demonstrators urge president-elect to fire ex-Breitbart editor By Times of Israel staff Hundreds of mainly Jewish protesters gathered outside the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City on Sunday evening where the Zionist Organization of America was holding its annual gala
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Middle East, USABy Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON, Massachusetts — When Elmer Davis, director of FDR’s Office of War Information, observed that “. . . you cannot do much with people who are convinced that they are the sole authorized custodians of Truth and that whoever differs from them is ipso facto wrong” he may well have
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International, Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USASenior Hamas official believes Trump is secretly Jewish (JNS.org) A senior official from the Palestinian terror group Hamas believes President-elect Donald Trump is secretly Jewish due to Trump’s love for money. “Trump loves the Jews, and not only because he likes the Jewish religion. I do not rule out the possibility that he is
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Middle EastTEL AVIV (Press Release) — A new study finds that the nicer, or more agreeable, a woman is at work, the lower her salary is likely to be. The new research, published in The European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, examines status inconsistencies between men and women through the lens of traditional male and
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — While Americans and others are in high anxiety about Donald Trump, Israelis and some others are in a similar fever over a small settlement with the name of Amona, as well as a number of other scandals. After a month of vacation from politics for the sake of traditional holidays, our
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastU.S. President Barack Obama urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to honor Moscow’s commitments on Ukraine’s sovereignty as the pair met briefly on the margins of the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima, Peru, Sunday. A White House statement said Obama told Putin U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov should
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International, Middle East, USA3 held in Beit Shemesh for taking part in 2 incidents earlier this month, including assault of Haredi soldier By Stuart Winer Three people in the central city of Beit Shemesh were detained over separate violent assaults to protest the drafting of ultra-Orthodox conscripts into the IDF, police said Sunday. An ultra-Orthodox teen, 14, was
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Gideon Levy is arguably the most radical journalist writing in a mainstream newspaper in Israel. Despite my subversive leanings I find it difficult to take most of his Ha’aretz columns. But I’d like to make an exception for the piece he wrote in his paper on November 20. It’s
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