As I write this, I’m still reeling in shock and horror at the murder of Jo Cox, the MP for Batley and Spen, who was so brutally killed yesterday. I had been sharing drinks with her husband, Brendan, only the night before. Now he is a widower and their two young children face life without […]
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InternationalThe man arrested over the killing of Labour MP Jo Cox bought books from a U.S.-based neo-Nazi group, including guides on how to build homemade guns, an American anti-hate campaign group has claimed. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has published receipts that appeared to show that Thomas Mair, known as Tommy, bought a manual
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InternationalIn the wake of the Orlando Massacre in which 49 people were murdered by a Muslim terrorist, Oliver Rosenberg, a Jewish Democratic challenger to Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D), has stated that the incumbent, Congressman Jerry Nadle, ” needs to explain how he can be pro-LGBT” when he voted for and supported the Iran nuclear deal.
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Middle East, USAFormer prime minister and defense minister Ehud Barak launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Thursday at the Herzliya Conference and called for a “popular protest” – as well as the next elections – to bring Netanyahu down from power. “A fanatical nucleus of radical ideology,” he said, “has taken over the Likud
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Middle EastPatrick Leahy By Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon A congressional measure to combat economic boycotts of Israel is being blocked by a leading senator who recently called on the Obama administration to investigate what he alleged are Israeli war crimes, according to congressional sources apprised of the matter. A group of senators has been
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Middle East, USATrump Tower looms over this part of midtown Manhattan. Today it is arguably at the center of the closely watched political activity that dominates the electoral landscape in this country. It was just a week ago, a few days prior to Shavuos, and while we were not there to see the man who knows how
Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich is marking 46 years since he and a group of Jewish refuseniks were arrested at Leningrad Airport, on June 15, 1970, as they tried to hijack a Soviet plane to Israel. He was released 11 years later. “I am celebrating a birthday,” he said. The famous “prisoner of Zion” spoke exuberantly to
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International, Middle EastGermany’s top Jewish group Thursday labelled as “disgusting” plans for a weekend auction of Nazi memorabilia, including Hermann Goering’s silk underpants. The Central Council of Jews in Germany appealed to the auction house Hermann Historica to cancel the controversial sale of Nazi relics planned for Saturday in the southern city of Munich. The council’s president
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InternationalDr. Irving Moskowitz, one of American Jewry’s leading philanthropists, has passed away aged 88. A passionate and lifelong support of Israel, Moskowitz, together with his wife Cherna, founded and led the Moskowitz Foundation in 1968, which supported countless initiatives in Israel and across the Jewish world. The couple also founded the Moskowitz Prize for Zionism,
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM –Though I’ve voted in Israeli elections whenever I’ve been in the country, I’ve never wanted to belong to a political party. But some of the critics of recent speeches by Ehud Barak and Moshe Ya’alon have helped to find one I might like: they call it the Party of the
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Middle EastLauder: Auschwitz guard ‘got the sentence he deserved’ (WJC) Ronald S. Lauder, the president of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), on Friday welcomed the Detmold court’s verdict in the trial of former Auschwitz camp guard Reinhold Hanning. Hanning was sentenced to five years in prison for complicity in the murder of at least 170,000 people
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InternationalArab Knesset member Haneen Zoabi to take part in another Gaza flotilla (JNS.org) Arab member of the Israeli Knesset Haneen Zoabi (Joint Arab List) is expected to participate in a women’s flotilla to the Gaza Strip in September, sources close to Zoabi told Israel Hayom. Zoabi plans to participate in the Women’s Boat to
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Middle EastOne of the things that caught my attention when I recently interviewed former Mexican President Vicente Fox was that he seemed more worried about Donald Trump’s authoritarianism than by the presumptive Republican nominee’s constant Mexico bashing. In much of the world, Trump is seen as a potential tyrant, and has even been compared — probably
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International, USANEW YORK (Press Release) — Leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (COP) on Thursday, June 16, called the Obama Administration decision to formally object to a proposed increase in funding by Congress to Israel for missile defense “very troubling” and “a disturbing departure from the prior practice of this and previous administrations.”
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