Springfield, Pennsylvania authorities are investigating an attack on a Jewish cemetery in which 30 headstones were vandalized. On Friday, Springfield resident Mora Ezra discovered the vandalism while visiting Mt. Sharon Cemetery to pay respects to her father. However, it is not clear when the vandalism actually occurred. Photos taken show headstones broken in half or […]
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USANew York/Washington (dpa) – The US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, warned that the United States could follow up a military strike on a Syrian airbase with further action, in an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Friday. The US fired dozens of missiles at a Syrian airbase suspected of being the
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International, Middle East, USAThe suspect in Stockholm’s deadly beer truck attack is a 39-year-old native of Uzbekistan who had been on authorities’ radar previously, Swedish authorities said Saturday. The prime minister urged citizens to “get through this” and strolled through the streets of the capital to chat with residents. Earlier on Saturday, Swedish police said they had arrested
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InternationalBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — At Pesach, fifteen years ago, Netanya suffered what became known as the Passover Massacre when a Palestinian suicide bomber walked into the banqueting hall of the Park Hotel and blew himself up as citizens gathered for the Seder service which recalls the Jewish people’s liberation from cruelty and oppression
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Barry Shaw, Middle EastBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM — Over the years I have attended many performances of Handel’s Messiah, but no matter where it was performed (England, America, France, Israel) it was always sung in English. George Frederick Handel wrote the oratorio using the text devised by Charles Jennens, based on the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer.
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsLos Angeles (dpa) – Folk singer Joan Baez, the grunge band Pearl Jam and the late rapper Tupac Shakur joined music history on Friday as they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Also included in the Hall of Fame’s class of 2017 were the bands Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), Journey, prog-rock
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAPresident Donald Trump expressed Friday how proud he was of his grandchildren for their performance in honor of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Madame Peng Liyuan’s official visit to the U.S. The president retweeted his daughter Ivanka Trump’s tweet in which she had posted a video capturing her children, Arabella and Joseph Kushner’s performance for
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International, USAThere’s no chance Syrian President Bashar Assad ordered the chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of civilians on Tuesday, former Republican congressman and three-time White House hopeful Ron Paul insisted afterwards. Mr. Paul raised doubts over the Syrian government’s role in this week’s deadly chemical weapons attack during a Wednesday taping of his YouTube show,
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Middle East, USAFirst there was panic, then bluster. The alert the U.S. military gave Russia on Thursday of an upcoming cruise missile strike was quickly circulated by Russian officials to their Syrian counterparts. Fearing the al-Shayrat air base might not be the only target, many fled Damascus or hustled their families out of the Syrian capital, according
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International, Middle East, USAPALM BEACH, Fla. — Chinese President Xi Jinping had just finished a steak dinner with President Donald Trump in a gilded dining room at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida when Trump told Xi that dozens of U.S. cruise missiles had just rained down on an airfield in Syria, a fiery display of U.S. military might
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International, USAHeir to the British throne meets UK Holocaust survivors during visit to Vienna, where he spoke about his ‘amazing’ relative saving Jews Auschwitz holocaust survivor Freddie Knoller speaks to the Duchess of Cornwall during her visit to The Jewish Museum in Vienna, Austria on the ninth day of the Prince of Wales’s European tour. Photo
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International, Jewish HistoryUnusual ice activity NOAA An iceberg seen on an Arctic mission in 2012. There is a swarm of about 481 icebergs parked in the shipping lanes of the North Atlantic right now, creating a hazardous area so treacherous that ships are having to detour 400 nautical miles out of their way to avoid the Titanic’s
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International, The World We Share, USARep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-HI., who secretly met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a four-day trip to the war-stricken nation in January, condemned President Donald Trump’s airstrike on the regime’s airbases Thursday night, saying the “short-sighted” action will lead to “more dead civilians.” The representative told news outlets at the time she spoke with Assad
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Middle East, USAPresident Donald Trump has suffered from record-low approval ratings during his first months in the White House. But if history is any guide, those figures are likely to see a significant boost following Friday’s strikes against Syria. Trump ordered 49 Tomahawk cruise missiles to strike an airfield in the city of Homs in retaliation for
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