Federal investigators looking into the recent wave of bomb threats against Jewish community centers and schools believe the calls to be coordinated and conducted using “spoofing” and voice-masking technology, according to a report from BuzzFeed. The report cites Paul Goldenberg national director for Secure Community Network, a homeland security initiative formed by a number of […]
Police in York Region in Ontario, Canada, will increase patrols and presence at synagogues, Jewish community centers and other Jewish institutions across the region following recent threats to the Jewish community across the U.S. and Canada. Earlier this week, a swastika was found drawn on the board of a classroom in Toronto”s York University. Police
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InternationalTel Aviv (dpa) – Israeli photographer David Rubinger, best known for his image of Israeli soldiers standing awestruck in front of the Western Wall during the Six-Day War, has died aged 92, a family statement said on Thursday. Rubinger, who died Wednesday in Jerusalem, “eternalized history as it will be forever etched in our memories,”
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Middle East, Obituaries & memorialsSenator Charles Schumer (D-NY) on Wednesday urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to provide Jewish institutions with caller information to help solve a recent string of bomb threats. In a letter to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, Schumer asked that the targeted institutions be granted special waivers allowing them to work with law enforcement to access
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USAThe White House is considering military options to counter aggression from Kim Jong Un, the dictatorial leader of North Korea, the Wall Street Journal reported this week. North Korea has focused intently on improving its nuclear capabilities and stockpiling an arsenal. The options to snuff out that threat reportedly presented to President Donald Trump include
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International, USAManila (dpa) – Police in the Philippines falsify evidence to justify extrajudicial killings in President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a new report published on Thursday. “Our investigations into the Philippine ‘drug war’ found that police routinely kill drug suspects in cold blood and then cover up their crime
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InternationalSenate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer threw his weight behind the push Thursday for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign and a special prosecutor appointed to investigate ties between President Trump’s campaign and Russian spies. Mr. Schumer said Mr. Sessions’ credibility as the country’s top law enforcement official had been undermined by revelations that he
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions should step aside from any role in the investigation of potential contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian officials, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said Thursday. McCarthy’s remarks made him the highest-ranking member of his party to say that Sessions should step aside from the investigation. The FBI
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — On March 1st, 2017, the founding members of the recently launched Latino Jewish Leadership Council (LJLC) attended the body’s first consultation in Washington, DC. The group of prominent national U.S. Latino and Jewish leaders expressed their steadfast commitment to jointly advocating for issues of common concern and to defend values cherished by
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International, Middle East, USAMahmoud al-Aloul says PA communicating with Trump administration, still uncertain about direction of US policy By Dov Lieber Mahmoud al-Aloul, member of the Central Committee of Fatah. January 6, 2010. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90) The recently appointed deputy chairman of the Palestinian Authority’s ruling Fatah party said on Wednesday he would accept a one-state solution to the
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Middle East, USAScientists have found what they claim are the oldest-known fossils on Earth, embedded in Canadian rocks that are at least 3.7 billion years old. If they are right, the discovery suggests that life on Earth began within 200 to 500 million years of the birth of the planet 4.5 billion years ago. “These findings show
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International, The World We ShareSupreme Court Justice Elena Kagan’s colleague Ruth Bader Ginsburg may be the notorious one, but it was the former who drew attention Tuesday night at President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress. Kagan, sitting near Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, started a flood of GIFs when she appeared to roll her
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USAAbout a third of Americans wouldn’t miss California if the state decided to split off from the union. A Rasmussen Reports poll released Wednesday found that 18 percent of adults surveyed believed that a California exit – dubbed CalExit, after the British Brexit movement – would be good for the nation, while 13 percent said
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USAVicente Fox has been very vocal on his dislike for Donald Trump and has been trolling him on Twitter for a long time. For a long time, the former Mexican president has been adamant on his stance that the citizens of México will not pay for the “f**ing wall,” but he has recently had a
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