Reform Movement, Bend the Arc, ADL protest Trump Administration’s decision to have states decide transgender bathroom rules WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The Union for Reform Judaism, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism condemn President Trump’s decision, and resulting actions by the Offices of Civil Rights of […]
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USALondon, Sydney- Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull attacked on Wednesday the United Nations resolution that denounced Israeli settlement on occupied Palestinian territories, as he welcomed Benjamin Netanyahu on his first official visit to the country. The two countries share solid relations since 1949 but no Israeli prime minister ever carried out visits to Australia before.
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International, Middle EastI didn’t vote for Ross Perot in 1992. However, I have always remembered one line from the Independent candidate during the third presidential debate that garnered little attention. “If you hate people,” Perot declared in his Texas twang, “I don’t want your vote.” Perot didn’t proclaim himself “the least racist person there is,” or, “the
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USA(Image source: Twitter) On Wednesday, Vice President Mike Pence rolled up his sleeves and helped the cleanup efforts at a Jewish cemetery that was desecrated in a St. Louis suburb. Earlier this week, over 150 headstones were vandalized at the Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in what is being viewed as an anti-Semitic act. The Jewish
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USADemocrats need to push back harder against President Donald Trump if they want to win over voters in the next elections. Roughly 72 percent of all Democrats don’t think their leaders in Congress are doing enough to stop the president, according to a Pew Research Center survey published Wednesday. The poll titled “In Trump Era,
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USADemonstrators marched out to singing and drums as their six-month protest against an oil pipeline in North Dakota drew to an end. Despite last-minute calls for the public to support their cause, their departure was, for the most part, peaceful. We need all your prayers. Tomorrow they will come for us. Regardless, we rise. Keep
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USASara Beltran-Hernandez, an undocumented immigrant suffering from a potentially deadly brain tumor, remained in an immigrant detention center Thursday after being “forcibly removed” from a Texas hospital, her law offices told International Business Times. Beltran-Hernandez, a 26-year-old who reportedly fled to the U.S. from domestic violence and other life-threatening issues in El Salvador, was detained
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International, USAShe withstood criticism and sang for him at the inauguration, but now, 16-year-old singer Jackie Evancho is speaking out against President Donald Trump over his decision Wednesday to rescind Barack Obama’s progressive legislation that gave transgender students the right to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identities. Evancho has a transgender sister, Juliet.
In August of 2002, interrogators at a secret CIA-run prison in Thailand set out to break a Palestinian man they believed was one of al-Qaida’s top leaders. As the CIA’s video cameras rolled, security guards shackled Abu Zubaydah to a gurney and interrogators poured water over his mouth and nose until he began to suffocate.
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International, Middle East, USAMeeting with two dozen manufacturing CEOs, President Trump said Thursday he’s determined to bring back thousands more “real jobs” to the U.S. and to cut trade deficits with countries such as Mexico and China. “Everything’s going to be based on bringing our jobs back, the good jobs, the real jobs,” the president said at a
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USAWASHINGTON — After nationwide immigration raids this month in which more than 680 people were arrested, the Department of Homeland Security issued a nothing-to-see-here statement downplaying the sweeps as anything out of the ordinary. “ICE conducts these kind of targeted enforcement operations regularly and has for many years,” the agency said last week. But President
President Trump is not an anti-Semite, at least in the strict sense of the word. But you have to be living on another planet — or exclusively watching Fox News — to not realize that his words and actions have led to the worst outburst of anti-Semitic hate crimes in recent U.S. memory. It’s no
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International, USAMEXICO CITY — During a visit to Guatemala, Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly contradicted deportation plans made public by the Trump administration just a day earlier. Speaking at a news conference Wednesday after meeting with Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales, Kelly said his agency would return deportees “to their home country as quickly as possible,”
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International, USACHICAGO — Records from former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.’s divorce case show how he has been able to collect hefty benefit checks from the federal government after serving time in prison for looting hundreds of thousands of dollars from his campaign fund. Jackson, 51, receives about $138,400 a year — more than he made
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