Two Israeli Arabs indicted for plans to join Islamic State (JNS.org) Two Israeli Arabs from the Galilee region were indicted for supporting and planning to join the Islamic State terror group. The two men, Nazareth resident Mahmoud Abed al-Fatah, 24, and Ashraf Arabi’i, 35, of Shfaram, were indicted in Nazareth District Court on Thursday. […]
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-65th in a Series- Exit 54, Kitchen Creek Road, Cleveland National Forest, California By Donald H. Harrison CLEVELAND NATIONAL FOREST, California – The Pacific Crest Trail intersects with Kitchen Creek Road about 30 miles from where the trail begins on the U.S.-Mexican border and about 2,620 miles from where it ends on the U.S-Canada border.
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Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — A good way of enjoying living in Israel is to avoid the media. Because reports about Israel’s standing in the world tend to be depressing, the English daily TV now brings five items of good news every Sunday, presumably to cheer up viewers and to encourage them to watch the
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Middle EastIsrael’s Supreme Rabbinical Court ruled on Wednesday that the conversions performed on his own by Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, a prominent modern Orthodox rabbi from Manhattan, will not be recognized. The ruling by the country’s highest officially recognized religious court upheld a decision made last week by the Petah Tikva District Rabbinical Court, which held that
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Middle East, USARepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday took to Twitter to hail the new pro-Israel Republican party platform. “The Republican platform is most pro-Israel of all time!” he tweeted, in a post that received more than 6,000 likes. The new platform, the language of which was approved by the Republican Party’s Platform Committee on Tuesday,
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Middle East, USAAfter meeting with the Queen, Theresa May can place her feet firmly under the desk at No 10 Downing Street as Prime Minister of Great Britain. She now faces the daunting task of leading the country out of the European Union. In her first speech she promised ‘not to govern for the privileged few’ and
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InternationalDavid Cameron spent his last night at Number 10 Downing Street on Tuesday in typically unpretentious style, dining on an Indian takeaway with his staff, his chancellor, George Osborne, and a handful of the Conservative MPs who had been most loyal to him, among them Hugo Swire, the foreign office minister, Richard Benyon, the Newbury
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InternationalFormer London Mayor Boris Johnson was on Wednesday appointed as Britain”s new Foreign Secretary in newly appointed Prime Minister Theresa May’s cabinet, The Independent reports. Johnson will represent Britain abroad on the world stage, and will also take a key role in Brexit negotiations once so-called Article 50 has been triggered to begin the process
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International, Middle EastLate-night host Stephen Colbert “took the gloves off” and went into a nearly three-minute long skit this week on Hillary Clinton’s integrity. “F*** it, I gotta take the gloves off,” the comedian told his audience Monday night. “The Late Show” host then began a series of pop-culture analogies to demonstrate the former secretary of state’s
Donald Trump does not speak often about his Christian faith, but it’s not a problem for many evangelical voters. A new poll released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center shows that 78 percent of white evangelical voters would vote for Trump if the election were held today. That’s higher than the 73 percent of evangelicals
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USAWASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton charged Tuesday that the Republican Party, once headed by a president who held the union together, is now led by a man who intentionally stokes divisions for personal gain, as she blasted Donald Trump for “pitting American against American” when the nation needs “a president who can help pull us together,
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USAIf Remigio Pereira’s performance the other night at Major League Baseball’s all-star game in San Diego is not a sign of the coming apocalypse, it’s at least one of the madness currently sweeping the planet. Pereira is – was? – one of The Tenors quartet, formerly The Canadian Tenors, and he had a pretty dishy
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Sports & CompetitionsST. JOSEPH, Mo. — The jail inmate who killed two courthouse bailiffs in a sensational shooting that stunned this Lake Michigan shoreline community spent two stints in federal prison for crimes involving guns and pipe bombs and was facing fresh allegations that he had a sexual relationship with a teenage girl and held her against
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USANewt Gingrich, a leading candidate to be Donald Trump’s running mate, told Republicans at a closed-door meeting earlier this year that Trump is not a conservative, speaks to voters “at the lowest level of any candidate in either party,” and could lose in a landslide if he didn’t significantly change his approach to campaigning. Gingrich
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