Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are both rotten candidates for the U.S. presidency, but they do provide great fodder for comedians. For example, the following joke arrived in my Inbox this morning: Trump and Hillary meet at a bar. Donald leans in and smiles, “The media are really tearing you apart for That Scandal.” Hillary […]
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USADiaries belonging to Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS and architect of the Holocaust, have been recovered in a Russian archive after being thought lost for more than 70 years. The diaries, which are being published in daily excerpts by the German newspaper Bild, cover 1938 and the crucial war years of
Friends don’t let friends vote Trump—if they’re Hillary Clinton supporters, that is. And the same dynamic holds true among supporters of Donald Trump, according to a Pew Research Center report that indicates friends are sticking together when it comes to the candidate they back. Just a quarter of voters who lean toward Trump say they
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USATwo years ago today, on August 3, 2014, the world watched in horror as ISIS massacred the Yazidi ethnic and religious minority on Mount Sinjar, slaughtering Yazidi men and abducting Yazidi women and girls as sex slaves. Far from being an isolated atrocity, Sinjar marks the beginning of ISIS’s genocide of Yazidis and the world’s
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International, Middle East, USAThe following editorial appeared in the Dallas Morning News on Wednesday, Aug. 3: Hillary Clinton has less than 100 days to show the country why she, rather than Donald Trump, should be the next president. It’s time she started acting like the president she wants to become. The first thing she can do is stop
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USAWhy would folks who like country music vote for a guy who owns country clubs? Why, in other words, is Hillary Clinton doing worse with straight, white working-class men than any other demographic? According to myriad studies, polls and my friend Beverly Anne, “They watched (Donald Trump) on ‘The Apprentice’ and they think they know
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USAIn deciding whether to formally prohibit plane sales that already seem commercially infeasible, Washington should consider one question: if the Islamic Republic is going to shoot itself in the foot, why refuse it the gun? In the continuing debate about the proposed Boeing and Airbus plane sales to Iran, the focus has been on whether
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Middle East, USALast week, an international, multilingual cast performed Shakespeare’s controversial play, “The Merchant of Venice,” in the secluded main plaza of the city’s historic Jewish Ghetto. It was the first time the play was performed in the iconic location. Enclosed by tall tenements and the arched windows of 16 th-century synagogues, audiences — US Supreme Court
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish HistorySpeaking at a rally in Virginia US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has laid out some more controversial foreign policy stances. The US will push for air and ground safe zones in Syria he said, but it won’t pay for them, instead the rich Gulf states would. The safe zone policy is controversial because it
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Middle East, USABy Alon Ben-Meir, PhD NEW YORK — Two weeks ago, President Obama announced that the US will draw down its troops in Afghanistan from 9,800 to 8,400, altering his original plan to reduce the number to 5,500. His decision suggests that conditions on the ground are not as promising as he expected them to
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Alon Ben-Meir, InternationalNEW YORK (Press Release)–The Jewish Council for Public Affairs on Wednesday, Aug. 3, issued a statement pleading for civility in political discourse. The statement follows: “This presidential election season, more than any in recent memory, has been marked with hostile, acrimonious, and demeaning rhetoric. Leading up to the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, in an
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USATeva inks biggest deal in Israeli pharmaceutical industry’s history (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli pharmaceutical giant Teva announced Tuesday that it has finalized its acquisition of Dublin-based Allergan’s Actavis Global Generics for $40.5 billion. This is the biggest acquisition deal in the Israeli pharmaceutical industry’s history. As part of the deal, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries acquired
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Middle EastCOLUMBUS, Ohio — By the time Hillary Clinton rolled up here for the final stop of her bus tour through Pennsylvania and Ohio, she had campaigned at a toy manufacturer, a wire factory, a convention center and a school. She bought a milkshake at a local shop, spoke from a church pulpit and showed off
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USANina Turner, a former Ohio state senator and a prominent surrogate for the Bernie Sanders campaign, was rumored to have been ejected from the 2016 Democratic National Convention last week. Those rumors did not turn out to be completely true, but Turner may still be ditching the party all on her own. Jill Stein, a
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