Donald Trump’s efforts to unite the Republican Party and drum up support among those who did not back him during primary season appears to be running flat with the GOP national convention just a month away. The New York real estate mogul and presumptive Republican nominee tried to secure support from the lesbian, gay, bisexual […]
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USASince Paul Ryan, R-Wis., endorsed presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump earlier this month, the speaker of the House of Representatives has been almost constantly fielding questions about the real estate mogul’s controversial comments and behavior. Even as he has condemned many of Trump’s remarks, Ryan’s endorsement has not wavered. But in an interview with NBC’s
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USAThe biographies historians would write about President Gary Johnson in the textbooks of the future would almost sound like fiction. He once climbed Mount Everest with a broken leg and crowd-surfed at a campaign event. A few years ago, he made national news when he talked about dog poop at a presidential debate. Oh, and
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Does Israel face threats to its existence?. Two former Chiefs of the IDF General Staff, who were both Ministers of Defense, and one of them a Prime Minister, have come out against the current Prime Minister with charges that he is excessive in promoting fear to the population rather than working
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastThis story was originally published by New Republic and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On March 31, Hillary Clinton held a rally at SUNY Purchase College, just north of New York City. As she worked the rope line after her speech, she stopped to shake hands with supporters and was
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The World We Share, USAHigh-profile liberal groups released an open letter Friday to encourage Democratic Party unity in the effort to defeat presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump in November. While the 14 groups didn’t directly name Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders, they stressed the high stakes in the presidential race. “We stand united against and will fight together against
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Editor’s Note: The following is satire and should not be taken literally By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — “Because I want to make Russian Jews great again,” Donald Trump said he’s agreed to play Tevye in a special production of Fiddler on the Roof. The show will necessarily be a limited-run production (ending by
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Joel H. Cohen, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — Just hours after four Israelis were murdered at the Sarona Market in Tel Aviv, Professor Cornel West called on a Democratic Party platform drafting committee to describe the West Bank as “occupied.” West is one of three advocates for the Palestinians whom presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders appointed to
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Middle East, USAMike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas who took part in the Republican primaries, spoke to Israel’s Army Radio in supporting presidential candidate Donald Trump and his statements against Muslims. Trump recently called for closing the United States’ borders to Muslims and mocked those who condemned him for it. “Right here in Israel, Muslims don”t
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Middle East, USAOfficials in Washington on Wednesday sought to play down the fact that the White House had threatened to veto a Congressional proposal to increase funding for Israeli missile defense. According to Haaretz, the officials stressed that the threat does not reflect a desire to cut aid to Israel, but merely a disagreement over the proper
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Middle East, USANEW YORK — Beneath Robert Silverman’s Midwestern affability lies a determination and stoicism few would attribute to such an agreeable man. These qualities were tested after Muslim-American gunman Omar Mateen killed 49 people and wounded 53 at a nightclub in Orlando Sunday, in the most gruesome mass-shooting in recent US history. “The Orlando murders reinforce
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International, Middle East, USABy Vice President Joe Biden WASHINGTON, D.C. — Over the past few years, we’ve watched as new horrific shootings have replaced previous ones as the deadliest in our nation’s history. We’ve waged campaign after campaign to turn our grief into action — each time thinking maybe, just maybe, this will be the one that breaks through.
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USABy Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi BETHESDA, Maryland — When the inaugural Genesis Prize – dubbed by Time magazine as “The Jewish Nobel” – was awarded in 2014 to one of the world’s leading philanthropists and public servants, New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, I admit I was very skeptical. I remember scratching my head and thinking, “One
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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAWhen Bernie Sanders took an early, exploratory trip to Iowa, a curious crowd of 150 or so turned out at a college-town bookstore, where they listened politely as he raged against the billionaires and oligarchs he said were destroying America. The angry aria from the wild-haired, slouch-shouldered senator from Vermont was delivered beneath a sign
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