In his weekly speech on Friday, US President Donald Trump said, “This week, Jewish families across our country, and around the world, celebrate Passover and retell the story of God”s deliverance of the Jewish people. “The story of the Exodus is a story of freedom. It is the story of an incredible people who were […]
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Jewish Religion, USABy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — When the Oxford Dictionaries in Britain made a list of new words it was accepting into its chambers for 2017, J.K. Rowling’s ”Harry Potter” novels had its “quidditch term accepted, along with “latte art,” “floordrobe,” “snoozefest” and ”cli-fi.” Words matter, and the editors of this British dictionary in London
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Travel and FoodThere Are Jews Here, a film by Brad Lichtenstein, 371 Productions. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –This 90-minute documentary explores four small town shuls fighting to remain open at their respective homes in Latrobe, Pennsylvania; Butte, Montana; Laredo, Texas; and Dothan, Alabama. Temple Emanu-El in Dothan seems to have the brightest future thanks largely
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USADamascus (dpa) – At least 24 people were killed on Saturday in a car bombing near a convoy of buses carrying evacuees from two pro-regime villages in northern Syria, a monitor reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights added that dozens of others were injured in the explosion on the western edge of the northern
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Middle EastPresident Donald Trump campaigned on a stronger immigration policy, one that involved more deportations and an expansion of personnel at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, especially within Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Problem is, CBP and ICE are having a difficult time fulfilling the president’s promise, at least according to some of the federal
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International, USAMEXICO CITY — Another journalist has been killed in Mexico — the fourth in just six weeks. Authorities said reporter Maximino Rodriguez Palacios was shot dead outside a shopping center Friday in La Paz, a coastal city in the state of Baja California Sur. Rodriguez, 72, wrote about politics and crime for a news organization
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InternationalPresident Trump can’t be sued for allegedly provoking his supporters to assault protesters at a pre-election rally last March because his standing as president precludes him from civil litigation, one of his attorneys said Friday. “Mr. Trump is immune from suit because he is President of the United States,” R. Kent Westberry, an attorney for
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USANorth Korea unveiled a train of intercontinental ballistics Saturday in its capital of Pyongyang as part of an annual parade celebrating the birthday of founder Kim Il Sung, the grandfather of supreme leader Kim Jong-un. RELATED: Kim Jong-un threatens to attack U.S. forces by air, land and sea if his “sovereignty and dignity” is challenged
BERKELEY, Calif. — About 200 pro-Trump demonstrators and counterprotesters faced off Saturday morning at a “Patriots Day” rally in Berkeley, where the two groups have violently clashed on city streets twice in the past three months. About 10 a.m., dozens of counterprotesters wearing masks tore down plastic netting that separated the two groups in Martin
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USASydney (dpa) – Church and human rights leaders in Australia called for asylum seekers to be evacuated from Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island to Australia on Saturday after reports emerged that locals fired gunshots and hurled rocks into the camp the night before. One asylum seeker was injured when local men reportedly tried to storm
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InternationalPYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea displayed its long-range missiles in a military parade Saturday as a show of force against the United States and a display of devotion to the country’s supreme leader, Kim Jong Un, demonstrating the depth of the isolated nation’s nuclear ambitions and further raising the specter of a military conflict
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International, USAKabul (dpa) – At least 94 Islamic State militants including four key commanders were killed in Afghanistan after the US dropped a massive bomb on a cave complex in Nangarhar province, the provincial government said Saturday. Local district chief Mohammad Ismail Shinwari said no civilian casualties were inflicted as civilians living in the area of
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International, USAIstanbul (dpa) – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan aims to convene government officials to review the future of Turkey’s relationship with Europe following a key referendum on presidential powers this weekend. Erdogan told state-broadcaster TRT on Friday that Turkey, a candidate country to join the European Union, had been unduly left waiting outside the bloc. “Turkey
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International, Middle EastBeijing urged Washington, Seoul and Pyongyang on Friday to stop irritating and threatening each other to prevent the situation on the Korean Peninsula from sliding to the point of being irreparable. “There has been heightened tension between the United States, the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The precarious situation deserves
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