By 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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Middle East, USABy Morton A. Klein NEW YORK –As a bi-partisan organization, the ZOA treasures opportunities to work with lawmakers and opinion makers on “both side of the aisle.” Alarmingly, Congressional bipartisanship on pro-Israel issues, as well as on issues related to U.S. security, is likely to be immeasurably harmed if radical Muslim-American Congressman Keith Ellison a/k/a
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Middle East, USAPresident-elect Donald Trump reportedly plans to appoint Republican primary rival Mike Huckabee as the next ambassador to Israel. The Jerusalem Post reported several members of Trump’s transition team confirmed the former Arkansas governor and minister will assume the post once the administration is installed in January. Earlier this week, Huckabee posted a Conservative Tribune story
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Middle East, USAIsraeli-designed laser technology detects explosives and other hazardous materials from a distance By Times of Israel staff SpectroDrone by LDS: Drone-Operated, Laser-Based Explosive Detection System (Screen capture: Vimeo) An Israeli-designed, drone-based sensor capable of remotely detecting explosives, hazardous material and drugs was unveiled at a trade show in Tel Aviv this week at the Homeland
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Shoshana Bryen and Stephen Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sometimes when decisions do not work out exactly as intended, they work out just fine. In the midst of Operation Protective Edge — Israel’s response to 182 Hamas rockets and mortars fired at Israeli towns and villages in the first week of July 2014 — the
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, Stephen D. Bryen, USABy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK – In a recent conversation I had with students, faculty, and alumni at New York University just before the start of my program “Global Leaders: Conversations with Alon Ben-Meir” on November 3, I had the opportunity to answer some questions concerning the turmoil in the Middle East and America’s role
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East, USAIsrael”s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon hosted an anti-BDS conference at the UN entitled “Legal Scholars Against BDS.” This conference was the second in a series which began with a major summit in the UN General Assembly in May 2016. At the May event, history was made as over 2,000 students and professionals
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International, Middle EastToday, UNESCO marks the 20th International Day of Tolerance by awarding the prestigious Madanjeet Singh Prize to the Russian Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center. There is no doubt that this exceptional organization, which has been working to find solutions to Europe’s migrant crisis, is a worthy recipient of worldwide recognition. However, the decision to make
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