By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — British exchange student Hannah Bladon was stabbed to death on a Jerusalem light rail train last Friday. Her murderer was identified as an East Jerusalem resident who had previously been convicted of molesting his daughter and had tried to commit suicide. Failing at that, he apparently opted for […]
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Jewish History, Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release)– ZOA President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: The Zionist Organization of America praises President Trump and Attorney General Sessions’ Department of Justice (DOJ) for bringing murder charges and issuing arrest warrants on Thursday (April 13), against two Palestinian Arab terrorists from the areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority (PA),
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) –Holocaust Remembrance Day – Yom HaShoah in Hebrew – marks the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. This year, Yom HaShoah will be observed in the United States on April 24, which corresponds to the 27th day of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar. On April 20, 2017 at 12:15 p.m., the
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International, Jewish History, USAVienna (dpa) – A Belgian retiree has been selected to become a hermit in Saalfelden in Austria, in one of Europe’s last inhabited hermitages, local mayor Erich Rohrmoser announced Wednesday. At the end of April, 58-year-old Stan Vanuytrecht will move into the St George hermitage, a 350-year-old place of solitude and religious reflection that is
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InternationalFascism and militarism “must be held thoroughly accountable and eradicated” and Japan must educate its young people with “the right view of history”, a Foreign Ministry official said on Tuesday. The comment came after reports that the Japanese Cabinet approved using what it described as “helpful and appropriate” content from Adolf Hitler’s infamous book, Mein
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, InternationalThe U.S. has built a better, smarter nuclear bomb capable of replacing all four of its predecessors and, as of last month, it’s ready to fly. The U.S. Air Force said Thursday it conducted an inert test in March of an upgraded version of one of its primary nuclear gravity bombs, the B61, in an
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International, USA‘Duchifat-2,’ a joint venture by dozens of pupils from around the country, will study the lower thermosphere By Stuart Winer Participating high school students hold up the Duchifat-2 nanosatellite that was launched into space from the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, April 18, 2017. (Israel Space Agency/Roi Greenberg) A tiny satellite built by Israeli
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAIn the company of visitors from his native Germany and his brother, former pope Benedict XVI celebrated his 90th birthday with a mug of beer, and according to AP News, a gift basket whose goodies included pretzels, both considered staples of Bavarian cuisine. The Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano published photos of the celebration with Benedict
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InternationalA female rape victim has criticized a Utah judge for describing the man who attacked her, former Mormon bishop Keith Robert Vallejo, as an “extraordinarily good man.” Judge Thomas Low made the remark at the sentence hearing of Vallejo on April 12 after a jury convicted him of 10 counts of forcible sexual abuse and
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USAJakarta (dpa) – Millions of residents of the Indonesian capital Jakarta went to the polls Wednesday in the second round of the city’s gubernatorial election following a campaign marked by religious and ethnic tensions. The election pits incumbent governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama, an ethnic Chinese Christian, against former education minister Anies Baswedan, who has
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InternationalATLANTA — Republicans on Tuesday apparently forced the front-running Democratic candidate for an Atlanta-area House seat into a runoff, extending until June a congressional contest that has become a nationalized referendum on President Donald Trump. With a small percentage of votes uncounted because of a balloting glitch, Jon Ossoff, a 30-year-old former Democratic congressional aide
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USANew England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady did not attend the ceremony at the White House on Wednesday, citing “personal family matters” as the reason for his absence. Several players are not in Washington, D.C., with the Patriots to celebrate their Super Bowl victory. Many cited political and social causes as the reason they did not
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Sports & Competitions, USASEDE BOQER, Israel (Press Release)– Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have developed novel ultrafiltration membranes that significantly improve the virus-removal process from treated municipal wastewater used for drinking in water-scarce cities. Current membrane filtration methods require intensive energy to adequately remove pathogenic viruses without
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationThe future of Fox News host Bill O’Reilly appears increasingly uncertain amid growing signs that the embattled TV star is losing support from his bosses at 21st Century Fox. O’Reilly, 67, has been on a planned vacation since last Wednesday and said on his top-rated prime-time program, “The O’Reilly Factor,” that he would be back
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