The leaders of many Middle Eastern countries are glad to see former US Preisdent Barack Obama replaced by Donald Trump and hope to see him take a harder line on Iran than his predecessor, according to Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations CEO Malcolm Hoenlein. Hoenlein made the remarks to the Algemeiner after […]
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USAA charter flight for Jews taking part in the annual pilgrimage to an 18th century Hasidic rebbe”s grave in Eastern Europe was forced to make an emergency landing Sunday in Amsterdam. The Boeing 767, carrying some 200 passengers, was forced down after the cabin suddenly depressurized. Witnesses say passengers were forced to breathe through masks
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InternationalJust days after posters accusing Jews of benefiting from “Jewish Privilege” were discovered on the University of Illinois at Chicago campus, Jewish students say yet another wave of anti-Semitic materials has been found on school grounds. Last week, posters accusing Jews of economically dominating the United States were found plastered around campus. “ENDING WHITE PRIVILEGE…
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Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAGUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Lawyers for the man accused of orchestrating the USS Cole bombing have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in the military tribunal at Guantanamo using accounts of the captive’s CIA torture drawn from declassified documents and an interrogator’s recent memoirs. The petition with hundreds of pages of supporting
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International, Middle East, USAChinese President Xi Jinping (R) meets with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 19, 2017.[Photo/Xinhua] BEIJING – President Xi Jinping met here Sunday with visiting U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, saying that cooperation is the only correct choice for both countries.
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International, USAWAKARUSA, Ind. — More than 50 years after Gale Sayers, the “Kansas Comet,” inspired awe as a Jayhawk, he was honored in January in Topeka, Kan., by the Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas as one of its Kansans of the Year. So this was overdue but due, nonetheless, which is why former Kansas Sen.
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Sports & Competitions, USAThe San Francisco-based Koret Foundation has granted the Diaspora Museum 10 million dollars, the largest donation the museum has received from an American foundation in its 40-year history. The donation will serve to expand the International School for Jewish Nation studies at the museum, to be named after the foundation. The expansion of the school
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USATel Aviv (dpa) – Threats to call new elections swirled Sunday in Israel amid coalition infighting, with the long-delayed establishment of a new public broadcaster at the centre, according to local media. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly threatened to call fresh elections if Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon insists on going through with the
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Middle EastIDF says warning system not triggered by incoming missile, a day after two projectiles were launched from the Strip By Times of Israel staff Israeli children run to a bomb shelter during a Color Red alarm warning of incoming rockets from the Gaza Strip, January 8, 2009. (Anna Kaplan/ Flash90) Rocket sirens sounded Sunday in
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Middle EastPresident Donald Trump’s youngest son Barron Trump made his first visit to the White House on Friday since his father’s swearing-in ceremony in January. He was accompanied by his parents before the family flew to the president’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida for the St. Patrick’s Day weekend. The 10-year-old was photographed walking on the lawn
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USAPresident Trump “either doesn’t know or doesn’t care” what his health care bill will do to his most ardent supporters, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Sunday. “He really doesn’t know what he’s talking about. It’s most unfortunate,” she told CBS’s “Face the Nation.” Mrs. Pelosi, California Democrat, said the Republican bill pushed by House
Turkey has accused Germany of supporting a US based cleric it blames for last year’s coup. President Erdogan’s spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said doubts raised by Germany’s spy agency, the BND, that Fethullah Gulen was behind the failed uprising were proof of Berlin’s support Ankara also said on Sunday that Turkish ministers could plan another rally
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International, Middle EastFirefighter Dan Estrada is being hailed as a hero after he took a leisurely stroll into the woods only to emerge with a beloved blind family dog – who had been missing for eight days – slung over his shoulders. 12-year-old Sage the dog had been reported missing from his family home in San Lorenzo
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The World We Share, USABerlin (dpa) – Germany’s defence minister on Sunday criticized as “incorrect” US President Donald Trump’s assertion that Berlin owes “vast sums of money” to NATO and Washington. Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen said that “there is no debt account at NATO.” She said Germany aimed to reach the benchmark 2 per cent of gross
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