JERUSALEM (Press Release) – Late Saturday night on April 1st, two EMTs, Dvir Adani and Moshe Mizrachi, decided that they would play an April Fool’s joke on their friends. The pair of United Hatzalah volunteers were driving past Ben Gurion airport on their way to buff calls in the center of the country when they […]
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and FoodVILNIUS, Lithuania (Press Release) – An AJC leadership delegation met with Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis during a three-day visit to the Baltic nation’s capital. This latest AJC visit to Lithuania, which concluded yesterday, came immediately after AJC Central Europe, the global advocacy organization’s fifth and newest office in Europe, was launched at a gala
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International, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Dictators – as well as some ostensibly democratic politicians like the current prime minister of Israel, Binyamin Netanyahu, and his new idol, US President Donald Trump – want to control the media by curbing free speech, in order to secure their grip over the population. That’s behind the to-ing
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Middle EastLehi leader Avraham Stern was gunned down 75 years ago in an unassuming apartment; it now houses a museum dedicated to the underground group By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am The entrance to the Lehi Museum, located on a street named for Avraham Stern in south Tel Aviv. (Shmuel Bar-Am) Stern’s room in Tel Aviv, where
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International, Jewish History, Middle EastFormer “Baywatch” star Pamela Anderson opened up about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in a blog she penned Thursday. In a candid post, Anderson said that her relationship with Assange was “no secret” and that he was “one of my favorite people.” “Julian is a human being who is extremely empathetic and cares deeply about the
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International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAStockholm (dpa) – Bob Dylan at long last received his 2016 literature Nobel medal and diploma during a private ceremony at an undisclosed location in Stockholm on Saturday. Members of the Swedish Academy told broadcaster SVT that the rock legend received his award at a private ceremony shortly before he took the stage at the
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, USAAs questions swirl about the contact members of President Donald Trump’s campaign had with Russians throughout the 2016 election, a majority of Americans favor an independent investigation, a new poll has found. Fifty-two percent of Americans support such an inquiry, while 23 percent are opposed, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research
MEXICO CITY — At least 154 people were killed when a torrent of mud and floodwater swept through a small Colombian city early Saturday morning, toppling homes, uprooting trees and sweeping away vehicles. Unusually strong rains caused three nearby rivers to overflow, triggering what officials described as a sudden avalanche of water and mud that
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InternationalPresident Trump will not ask the American Bar Association to evaluate candidates for federal judgeships prior to formally nominating them for the more than 100 existing judicial vacancies – a departure from a practice that has been previously criticized for bias against Republican nominees. ABA President Linda Klein announced Friday that the association was “notified
In a dramatic week in Venezuela, the pro-government Supreme Court on Saturday revoked its controversial annulment of the opposition-led congress amid international condemnation and protests against President Nicolas Maduro. “This controversy is over … the constitution has won,” Socialist Maduro said in a televised speech just after midnight local time to a specially convened state
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InternationalCalifornia’s cigarette tax increased by $2 a pack Saturday under new tobacco policies passed by voters during last November’s general election. Smokers in California will now pay $2.87 in state taxes for a pack of cigarettes, more than tripling the 87-cent tax levied before the new excise took hold April 1. In implementing the $2
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USANEW YORK — Revelations of sexual harassment claims involving Fox News keep piling up, with the news Saturday that two additional women who accused star anchor Bill O’Reilly had received settlements — one in 2011 and one just months ago. According to a report in The New York Times, late last year a payment of
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAPresident Trump on Saturday told NBC News to stop reporting on Russia’s involvement in his White House victory as accusations concerning Moscow’s role in last year’s election face heightened scrutiny in the form of no fewer than three federal probes. Via his personal Twitter account, Mr. Trump fired off a pair of posts Saturday morning
With short viral videos, a Facebook group gets thousands of laughs when US-born bilingual youth poke fun at their esteemed Russian-speaking elders By Julie Masis Floating above the obligatory hammer and sickle, the centerpiece of this red Soviet Union flag is a six-pointed Star of David. The overtly Jewish symbol is front and center in
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