SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The National Rifle Association said Monday it is sponsoring a series of five lawsuits against the package of gun control bills approved in California last year, including one challenging the newly expanded assault weapons ban in California. Last year, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a prohibition on the sale of […]
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USAWASHINGTON — It’s an open secret on Capitol Hill: President Donald Trump wants a “big, beautiful” border wall, but few in Congress are willing to pay for it. The standoff, between the White House and lawmakers — Republicans and Democrats — has escalated tensions toward a possible government shutdown at midnight Friday as Congress races
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International, USAAn African-American homeless man slain with a sword on the streets of New York. A mosque attacked in Fort Collins, Colorado, its windows smashed by a man who finished off his assault by hurling a Bible inside the Muslim house of worship. A portion of Junction City, Wisconsin, evacuated after a man angry with his
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USAHouse Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Monday that President Trump needs to stay out of Congress’ budget negotiations in order to get a bill done by Friday’s deadline. On a Monday conference call with Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez, Mrs. Pelosi said negotiations between the parties were
Riots breaks out as officers forced to retrieve two men who reportedly arrived in Sur Baher to sell black market eggs By Times of Israel staff Illustrative image of Palestinian youth holding rocks during clashes with Israeli police in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sur Baher on October 7, 2015 (Hadas Parush/Flash90) Police rescued two
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LOS ANGELES (Press Release) –Rabbi Marvin Hier, Simon Wiesenthal Center Founder and Dean is being honored as the first non-Israeli citizen chosen to light Israel’s Independence Day ceremonial torch. The decision was made by Israel’s Culture Minister Miri Regev, who said that the inclusion of Jews from the diaspora symbolizes the stake that Jewish people all
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Middle East, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release) – On Tuesday, April 25, 2017, the San Diego Unified School District’s board members will consider endorsing California State Senator Ricardo Lara’s proposed Senate Bill 30 which would prohibit the state from awarding or renewing a public contract with any person who provides goods or services to the Federal Government for
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International, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Monday, April 24, issued the following statement concerning Yom HaShoah: “Today on Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising – we honor the six million Jews systematically murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators. We also
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International, Jewish History, USAHAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — A new study held at the University of Haifa among Holocaust survivors has revealed a specific population group with a high suicide rate. The study found that people who immigrated to Israel from countries where most of the Jewish population was murdered in the Holocaust, such as Germany, Austria, Poland, and
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Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationSACRAMENTO, California (Press Release)– State Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced on Monday that unconscious bias training is being provided to California Department of Insurance (CDI) employees. Research shows that despite the prevention of explicit bias, unconscious biases can affect how people make decisions, communicate or interact with one another. Based on this research and the
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USANEW YORK (Press Release)– Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, the independent U.S. national organization among Anne Frank organizations worldwide, has obtained commitments from 26 state legislators across 20 states, including Republicans and Democrats, to introduce legislation that would require education in public schools on the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide and other genocides. Those 20 states are
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Jewish History, USAUN chief vows to combat anti-Israel bias and anti-Semitism (JNS.org) United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reassured Jewish community leaders Sunday that he would oppose any anti-Israel bias at the United Nations. “As secretary-general of the United Nations, I consider that the state of Israel needs to be treated as any other state,” Guterres said at
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CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND (Press Release)– Treasures from the world’s largest and most important collection of medieval Jewish manuscripts – chronicling 1,000 years of history in Old Cairo – will go on display in Cambridge this week for a six-month-long exhibition at Cambridge University Library. Discarded History: The Genizah of Medieval Cairo opens to the public on
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — The international community commemorates the Holocaust in January, on the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The Jewish world commemorates the Holocaust in April, on the anniversary of the Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto. The international commemoration implicitly celebrates the Allied forces’ defeat of the Nazis;
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