Things aren’t looking up for President Donald Trump, a man long obsessed with ratings of any sort. His approval rating took another dip this week. Just 34 percent of the country approved of the job Trump is doing, down from 44.1 percent in March, according to the latest survey this week from Investor’s Business Daily/TechnoMetrica
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USABy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — The Italian, Grammy-Award Maestro, Fabio Luisi, newly appointed principal conductor of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, led his forces in an engaging concert of works by Nielsen (1865-1931), Wagner (1772-1822) and Mahler (1869-1911). The program, at the Jacobs Music Center last Thursday evening, was sponsored by the La Jolla
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Eileen Wingard, International, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsJERUSALEM (Press Release) – More than 150,000 needy Israelis and 200,000 needy Jews in the former Soviet Union, from all walks of life, will receive food and clothing for the Passover holiday, thanks to International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (The Fellowship). The Fellowship will distribute more than $2.8 million in Passover aid to needy Israelis, including
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. Representatives Peter J. Roskam (R-IL) and Grace Meng (D-NY) called on a key House Committee to continue funding for U.S.-Israel defense cooperation programs. Earlier this week, U.S. and Israeli officials announced the David’s Sling air defense system has officially entered into service. Rep. Roskam, who serves as Co-Chair of the
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Middle East, USABy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — The horror felt in Israel over a group calling themselves Jewish Voice for Peace hosting a convicted Palestinian terrorist guilty of murdering Jews is palpable. No words can adequately express the shock in the Jewish state to learn that an American Jewish group went out of their way to
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KFAR HASIDIM, Israel (Press Release)– Ten Bnei Menashe couples, all of whom immigrated to Israel from Mizoram, India, in February, married at Shavei Israel’s absorption center in Kfar Hasidim on Sunday, April 2, under Jewish law in the wake of their formal conversion. The 10 couples were among 102 new immigrants who arrived in Israel last
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International, Middle EastLOS ANGELES (Press Release) –The Simon Wiesenthal Center has denounced Swedish authorities for again failing to protect its Jewish citizens, this time in the northern town of Umea (pictured). The Jewish community association has announced it is closing following a series of Neo-Nazi threats, which included swastikas with messages like, “we know where you live.”
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International, USASANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release) – Anti-Semitism on campus increased 40% and genocidal expression doubled in 2016, according to AMCHA Initiative’s annual study, released Tuesday, that examines anti-Semitism at more than 100 public and private colleges and universities with the largest Jewish undergraduate populations. Main findings of the study include: 40% Spike: Anti-Semitism on campuses most popular for
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USASuspected chemical attack in Syria kills at least 68, including 11 children (JNS.org) A suspected gas attack, carried out by either Syria’s government or Russian jets, killed at least 68 people—including 11 children—in the Syrian province of Idlib Tuesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the gas attack caused dozens of people to
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 49 years ago today, April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tenn. He was standing on the balcony just outside Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel. It was 6:01 PM and he had just leaned over the railing and was speaking to a gospel
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USAGLENDALE, Ariz. — The day before the NCAA championship game, North Carolina coach Roy Williams wasn’t buying the David-versus-Goliath theme being spun about the Tar Heels’ meeting with Gonzaga. “That may be the way it’s perceived,” Williams said Sunday. “But when you start watching them, it’s not that much difference (between the teams). I’m not
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Sports & Competitions, USARussia has launched its most powerful, advanced nuclear attack submarine yet at time when Moscow has claimed to have restored its Cold War-era dominance of the sea. The Project 885 (08850) Yasen-class fourth-generation multipurpose Kazan nuclear submarine had been under construction since 2009 at the Sevmash shipyards in the Russia White Sea port city of
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InternationalMEXICO CITY — A Mexican newspaper is shutting down because the country has become too dangerous for journalists, according to its owner. In an editorial published Sunday on the front page of the Norte newspaper in the border city of Juarez, owner Oscar Cantu Murguia said a string of deadly assaults on journalists is “preventing
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International‘Pnima’ says goal to mend Israel’s social fabric, bring ‘an end to the divisions, an end to the incitement, an end to the baseless hatred’ By Marissa Newman Mayor of Acre Shimon Lankri, Former IDF chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi (2L), Shlomo Dovrat, former IDF Chief of staff Benny Gantz (standing) and former education minister
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