International

‘Why not just build at night, instead of on Shabbat?’

Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) spoke with journalists Sunday morning ahead of the government”s weekly meeting, fielding questions regarding the ongoing coalition crisis over infrastructure work done for the public transportation system on Shabbat. Two weeks ago, revelations that the Transportation Ministry was conducting infrastructure work for the Israeli rail system on the Jewish […]

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Middle East

G20 – US pledges to help bring Turkey coup plotters to justice as G20 opens

The US is committed to bringing the perpetrators of the attempted coup against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to justice, President Barack Obama said Sunday, as the two leaders met during the official opening of the G20 summit in Hangzhou. Ankara accuses US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen of being behind the July uprising. At talks with

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International, USA

Hollande govt left economic reforms ‘half done’, says ex-minister Macron

Former economy minister Emmanuel Macron, who resigned from the French government on Tuesday, criticised President François Hollande’s government for not pushing hard enough for fiscal reforms in an interview published on Sunday. “I kept trying, proposing, pushing … If you want to succeed you cannot leave work half done, and unfortunately many things were left

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International

Could Shabbat fracas eventually derail Netanyahu?

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM –The intricacies of the latest dispute around Israel’s railways may be of little interest to those not directly affected, but the political ramifications are extremely relevant to us all. Ostensibly, in an effort not to disrupt railway traffic during the working week, Israel Katz, Israel’s minister of transport, authorized essential

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Middle East

Israel Readies to Host ICC Delegation on Gaza War Mission

Jerusalem-Israel is to host a working group of the International Criminal Court as it weighs whether to probe alleged war crimes in the 2014 Gaza war, an Israeli official said Friday. The group’s arrival “shortly” will be unprecedented, he told Agence France Presse on condition of anonymity, saying the visit was intended to show the

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International, Middle East

The women in WWII Paris who ‘did what they had to’ for survival

LONDON — “Don’t worry,” furrier Abraham Reiman told his daughters, Madeleine, 11, and Arlette, aged nine. “Don’t worry, this is the land of freedom, of Voltaire and Rousseau.” It was July 1942 and one of the blackest periods in the lives of French Jews. Arlette Reiman, her sister and her mother Malka, were among more

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International

Hillary Clinton’s email archives lost in the mail during back-up: FBI

Two archives containing Hillary Clinton’s emails from her tenure as secretary of state were misplaced shortly after it was revealed that the Democratic presidential nominee used a personal account for official government business, according to notes from the FBI’s investigation into the matter. The archives were created in spring 2013 by Monica Hanley, a former

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USA

Police union may boycott 49ers games over Kaepernick

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The Santa Clara police union says its officers may stop working San Francisco 49ers’ home games amid quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s decision to protest police brutality and racial injustice by refusing to stand during the national anthem, according to media reports. A letter from the Santa Clara Police Officers’ Association to the

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Sports & Competitions, USA

Trump in Detroit Calls for a New ‘Civil Rights Agenda’

Donald Trump stuck largely to script Saturday in addressing a traditionally black church in Detroit, where he made his pitch in an attempt to woo a portion of the electorate that overwhelmingly favors Hillary Clinton. The Republican nominee for president gave his first address before a predominantly black audience at Great Faith Ministries and avoided

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USA

‘Not a bigot,’ Trump tells blacks; no Brotherly Love outside luncheon

PHILADELPHIA — GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump told a handful of blacks in North Philadelphia on Friday that the perception that he is a racist is because the media have interpreted his comments that way. “He does not see himself as a racist and neither did the people around the table,” said Renee Amoore, the

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USA