A group of Polish activists is towing a mobile billboard across Europe with an image of Adolf Hitler hanging over the gates of Auschwitz, in a bid to distance Poland from the atrocities of the Nazi regime. Auschwitz was built in the east European country, along with several other concentration camps, as part of the […]
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International, Jewish HistoryThe Louvre in Paris re-opened on Saturday morning, 24 hours after a soldier patrolling the museum shot a machete-wielding attacker, believed to be an Egyptian who entered the country on a tourist visa a week ago. The Friday incident has thrust security and the terror threat back into the limelight three months before elections in
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International, Middle EastPHILADELPHIA �� Federal authorities have identified a Philadelphia journalist as the woman who infiltrated and might have secretly recorded a private discussion of congressional Republicans at their retreat last week, law enforcement sources familiar with the matter said. The sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Emily Guendelsberger is unlikely to face federal
Jim Mattis not planning to boost troop numbers in the Middle East US imposes fresh sanctions Tehran denounces them as “illegal” Military exercises have got underway in Iran. The country’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC):http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7064353.stm, a branch of the armed forces, say the exercises show Tehran is prepared to confront the threat posed by what
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Middle East, USAClashes between Ukrainian forces and Moscow-backed rebels left seven more people dead in Ukraine on Friday, in escalating violence that European monitors say could lead to a humanitarian disaster. A surge in fighting in Ukraine that started on January 29 has now killed 34 people, according to reports from both sides. The Ukrainian army said
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InternationalAt meeting of 27 European countries, officials tell ISA chairman Shmuel Hauser they are ‘concerned’ about fraudulent Israeli industry, ask him what he’s doing about it By Simona Weinglass Israel Securities Authority chief Shmuel Hauser (Roni Schutzer/Flash90) Israel Securities Authority Chairman Shmuel Hauser was asked to explain what Israel is doing to tackle binary options
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International, Middle EastSEATTLE—In one of the strongest blows yet to President Donald Trump’s controversial immigration ban, a federal judge in Seattle on Friday ordered an immediate nationwide halt to enforcement of the order that has caused havoc at airports and sown confusion among thousands of visa holders and refugees. The temporary restraining order from U.S. District Judge
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International, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Robert Fulford is known in Canada as a distinguished journalist and public intellectual of note. He has warm personal ties to the Jewish community and is a great supporter of the State of Israel. His latest column in the National Post has the title, “Israel always seems to be
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International, Middle East, USABy Steve Kramer ALFEI MENASHE, Israel — With everyone in the US and Israel either apprehensive, worried, or elated with the change of American administrations, the world turns. This week I was irritated enough by an article in the Boston Globe (which I read courtesy of the watchdog (HonestReporting.com) to write a letter to the
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Middle East, Steve KramerThe two candidates leading in France’s presidential polls, far-right Marine Le Pen and centrist Emmanuel Macron, are holding rival rallies in the French city of Lyon on Saturday. Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Front (FN) party, kicked off her presidential campaign and unveiled her platform on Saturday, as part of weekend-long conference in
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InternationalKnesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein met yesterday with his counterpart, House of Representatives head Paul Ryan and afterwards with the head of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Senate, Bob Corker. At the meeting with Ryan Edelstein expressed his support for transferring the American embassy to Jerusalem and said that he would be happy if the
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Middle East, USAHistory, border stances compared to Trump’s CORDOBA, Argentina | With President Trump’s travel ban dominating global headlines, another businessman-turned-president is using his executive powers to toughen immigration rules and speed the deportations of undesirable migrants. But unlike Mr. Trump, Argentina’s Mauricio Macri isn’t making good on a campaign promise but trying to boost his party’s
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International, USAThe House voted Thursday to cancel an Obama administration rule that would have had Social Security add names from its files to the list of people prohibited from buying guns in the national background check system. Under the rule, which got final approval as President Obama was heading out the door in December, the Social
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USAWASHINGTON — Kellyanne Conway, a top adviser to President Donald Trump, admitted Friday that she mistakenly cited a nonexistent “massacre” while defending the president’s order suspending entry to refugees and travelers from seven majority-Muslim nations. Conway’s backtrack came on Twitter, hours after she received widespread criticism for an MSNBC interview in which she cited “the
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