By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Yes. It is a lot of money. Yes. A ten-year deal provides a stable base for Israeli planning. Yes. With the unsettled American political situation and the unsettled military situation in Israel’s neighborhood, stability counts. No. Israel’s military industries will not collapse without the use of 25% of its […]
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Middle East, USAFormer Israeli president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres saw “real improvement” today (Thursday) but remained in serious condition after the 93-year-old suffered a major stroke on Tuesday, his doctor said. “There is another real improvement today,” Peres’s personal physician and son-in-law Rafi Walden told media, describing his condition as serious but stable. He
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Middle EastDonald Trump said on Thursday he “would absolutely sever” ties to the Trump Organization if he were elected president. The Republican presidential nominee was responding to questions about a Newsweek article on his company and its foreign connections during a phone-in appearance on the television program Fox and Friends. Newsweek’s Kurt Eichenwald reported on the
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USAA vacation on Ireland’s west coast should have provided relief from the depressing realities of the U.S. election season. But it’s hard to escape when every Irishman or woman you meet asks the same question, differing only in the choice of adjective: “You Americans aren’t really going to elect that awful (or dangerous or bigoted)
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International, USAFORT WORTH, Texas — Republican Donald Trump is keeping a single-digit lead with Texas’ likely voters, but Democrat Hillary Clinton is close and voters think she would do a better job on foreign policy and education, according to results of a Texas Lyceum poll announced Thursday. Trump rode a 35-percent lead among Anglo voters to
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USAMissouri’s Republican-led legislature has significantly expanded gun rights in the state, establishing a public “stand your ground” right and allowing for permitless concealed carry of firearms. Lawmakers overrode Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto of the sweeping gun rights law late Wednesday. The legislation does away with training and permit requirements for concealed carry in the
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USAHundreds of Israeli artists and intellectuals urged world Jewry to challenge Israeli policy toward Palestinians, in an open letter released Wednesday. “We call upon Jews around the world to join with Israeli partners for coordinated action to end the occupation and build a new future, for the sake of the State of Israel and the
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Middle EastMohammed Abu Ara is the face of a grave new threat, but propped up on his bed in an airy segregated hospital ward in Jordan, there’s not a hint of menace about him. With his left arm cut off above the elbow and one of his legs encased in a metal splint, he looks like
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationOn a recent Sunday morning, Donald Ossewaarde, a Baptist preacher from the United States, hosted an informal Bible study group at his home in Oryol, a small city 225 miles south of Moscow. Most of the dozen or so people who attended had been coming to Ossewaarde’s weekly gatherings for years, and they were looking
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InternationalYou would have thought that by now, Donald Trump’s deplorables would have gotten over Hillary Clinton’s diss. But they can’t let it go. Apparently, “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic” deplorables are better at talking smack than taking it. Clinton’s comment about putting half of Trump’s supporters into “the basket of deplorables” isn’t even harsh. I
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USATEL AVIV (Press Release) —A new Tel Aviv University study published in the August 2016 issue of the Journal of School Psychology reports on a new system that creates sustainable tolerance while combating racism and prejudice. The Extended Class Exchange Program (ECEP) is geared to third- and fourth-grade Israeli Jewish and Israeli Palestinian students. The
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationHAIFA, Israel (Press Release)– Results of a new study at the University of Haifa have found no difference in the risk of developing schizophrenia between second-generations Holocaust survivors and those whose parents were not exposed to the Holocaust. However, an examination of various sub-groups showed that second-generation survivors whose parents were babies during the Holocaust are
By Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — Who was the only Jewish person featured on a Canadian postage stamp? Don’t know – here’s a hint. She was an Olympic Games multi-medal winner. Still don’t know – another hint. She was named Canada’s woman athlete of the half-century. Give up – then read on. Fanny “Bobbie”
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International, Jewish History, Sports & CompetitionsBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The status quo usually works. It derives from years of experience, and the learned accommodation of different interests to one another. Not all are happy. Those feeling deprived, and those feeling that features of the status quo are not appropriate demand change, but usually it’s not easy to change things
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