Actor says his sister revealed his mother’s religion to him when he complained to her about ‘stingy,’ big-nosed Jews By Times of Israel staff TV actor Karim Kassem reveals he’s Jewish in front of a live studio audience on the Egyptian TV talk show “Mona Elshazly” on November 18, 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube) Egyptian TV
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Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastOpinion polls in Italy are predicting the prime minister’s defeat in a constitutional referendum due at the start of December. If it comes to pass, it will be the third big anti-establishment revolt by voters in a major Western country this year, following Britain’s unexpected vote to leave the EU and the US election of
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International[video:2021488] The Chabad-Lubavitch hasidic movement opened its annual emissaries’ conference in New York this weekend. Close to 4,000 Chabad emissaries are participating in the conference, during which they will discuss a range of issues affecting Jewish life around the world. The Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters published data on the initiative began by the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel
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International, Jewish ReligionMILWAUKEE — As Donald Trump lashed out via Twitter at Hillary Clinton Sunday over her campaign’s decision to join the recount process in Wisconsin, state election officials announced that a recount will probably start Thursday. At a meeting Monday morning, Wisconsin Elections Commission staff will ask the commission to approve a schedule that would start
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USAFrançois Fillon comprehensively won the second round of the centre-right presidential primary defeating Alain Juppé by a wide margin. “France wants the truth and France wants action,” he told cheering supporters following Juppé’s concession speech, promising to “reach out to all those who want to serve the country.” “The left means failure, the far-right means
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InternationalWashington (dpa) – A top aide to US president-elect Donald Trump says political change in Cuba will be necessary to continue the political rapprochement between the nations following the death of revolutionary leader Fidel Castro. “We’re not going to have a unilateral deal coming from Cuba back to the United States without some changes in
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International, USAWASHINGTON — Alan Gross, the American aid worker who spent five years in prison in Cuba, says he hopes Fidel Castro’s death will ease some of the anger and fear felt toward Cuba so progress can be made toward better U.S.-Cuba relations and the lifting of the U.S. trade embargo. Gross is in a better
South African churches have condemned the practices of a self-styled pastor who has allegedly sprayed his followers with a harmful insecticide. Lethebo Rabalago, a self-proclaimed prophet at the Mount Zion General Assembly (MZGA) in the Limpopo province, northeast South Africa, has used a pesticide called Doom in purported healing services. Photos posted to the MZGA
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InternationalSydney (dpa) – A sixth person has died almost a week after the south-eastern Australian city of Melbourne was hit by an unprecedented number of cases of “thunderstorm asthma”, officials said Sunday. The latest patient to die had been in a critical condition since the outbreak, a Eastern Health hospital spokeswoman said. He died on
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International, Science, Medicine, & EducationSen. Ted Cruz on Sunday would not walk back comments he made during the GOP presidential primary in which he called Donald Trump a “pathological liar.” Appearing on ABC’s “This Week,” the Texas senator said he is focused on the future, and he refused to “relitigate” the dust-ups he had with Mr. Trump during the
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USAPresident-elect Donald Trump went on a tweetstorm Sunday morning, quoting Hillary Clinton’s debate promise to accept the election results a day after her campaign agreed to support efforts to recount votes in Wisconsin, an effort his transition team labeled a “scam.” Razor-thin margins in key battleground states delivered the election for Trump, who stands at
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USAMIAMI �� Juanita Castro expressed sorrow Saturday over the death of her brother Fidel, but said she is not planning to travel to Cuba to attend his funeral. She said she remains committed to the Cuban exile community. She opposed to the dictatorship her late brother imposed on the island when he seized power in
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International, USARepublicans in Congress and on Donald Trump’s transition team urged President Obama Saturday to skip the funeral of longtime Cuban President Fidel Castro. Trump adviser Newt Gingrich said “under no circumstance” should Mr. Obama, Vice President Joseph R. Biden or Secretary of State John F. Kerry go to Cuba for Castro’s funeral. “He was a
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International, USATel Aviv (dpa) – A video showing Russian ice skaters performing in concentration camp prisoner outfits was slammed as “grotesque” and “offensive” on various social media platforms on Sunday. Tatyana Navka, who’s married to Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, performed the piece based on the Italian movie Life is Beautiful on Saturday night on the
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