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Minister: ‘Mimouna is the best symbol of unity in Israel’

April 30, 2016

As Passover and Shabbat end tonight, people across Israel are celebrating Mimouna. Social Equality Minister Gila Gamliel (Likud) is taking part in the festival at the Dahan home in Yavne, along with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara. Gamliel spoke to fellow attendees, saying that “the festival of Mimouna, in which the doors […]

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Turkey says new Constitution to be secular

April 30, 2016

Soothing rattled nerves of secularists in Turkey, who were irked by comments the speaker of the Parliament made Monday, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu made reassurances Wednesday that its new constitution will guarantee secularism. The speaker, Ismail Kahraman, had appealed for a religious constitution for the Muslim-majority nation. In a televised speech, Davutoğlu said: “Secularism will

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Middle East

Deadly Fish Virus Finally Identified

April 30, 2016

A mysterious virus that has decimated tilapia fish stocks in Ecuador and Israel has finally been identified by an international team of scientists. The virus, dubbed tilapia lake virus, was long suspected to be behind mass die offs of valuable farmed tilapia in Ecuador and Israel since 2009. In a paper published in the journal

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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We Share

Neocons Hunt For Third Party Candidates

April 30, 2016

“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” This iconic Cool Hand Luke quote seems to be the rallying cry of the Republican National Committee as it attempts to whip the disparate caucuses of the Republican party into accepting the inevitability of Donald Trump’s nomination as the party’s presidential candidate. Some of the most powerful

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USA

Labor Party plans new anti- racist code of conduct

April 30, 2016

For background on this newspaper, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asharq_Al-Awsat LONDON – Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn who is a close ally of party veteran Livingstone stated late on Friday that he would recommend a new code of conduct explicitly banning anti-semitism and other forms of racism. Noting that Britain’s opposition Labor party has launched an inquiry into

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International

Australians protest detention of asylum seekers

April 30, 2016

Keeping up with Israel’s friends in the Western Pacific: Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru and Palau Sydney (dpa) – About 400 people protested in the Australian city of Melbourne Saturday against the offshore detention of asylum seekers, a news report said, as the future of the detention centre on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island remains uncertain.

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UCSD psychiatrist analyzes four Nazis May 12

April 29, 2016

LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) –After World War II came to an end in 1945, the mass killing and sheer devastation wrought by the Nazis off the battlefield began to emerge in shocking detail. Some 11 million civilians—both Jews and non-Jews, including about 1.5 million children—were killed during the Holocaust. When the Allies convened the

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Trump fans barrage journalist with anti- Semitic slurs

April 29, 2016

“They said I’d make a good lampshade,” says Julia Ioffe. Ioffe is a journalist, who happens to be Jewish, and who happened to write a profile of Donald Trump’s wide, Melania, for GQ. She has since been barraged with insults and threats, many of them violent, and many of them anti-Semitic. “Basically,” says Ioffe, “I

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International, USA

Former SS Guard Breaks Silence At Trial

April 29, 2016

Reinhold Hanning, 94, told a courtroom in western Germany that he had never spoken about his time as a SS guard in Auschwitz, even with his family members, but wanted to apologize Friday for his involvement in the Nazi Holocaust. He said he was aware of what was happening at the Auschwitz concentration camp, where

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International, Jewish History

Self- immolated Nauru detainee dies

April 29, 2016

Keeping Track of Israel’s friends in the Western Pacific: Nauru Sydney (dpa) – An Iranian asylum-seeker who set himself on fire in an Australian offshore detention centre this week has died in hospital, officials said Friday. The 23-year-old man, whose name has not been officially released, was airlifted to Brisbane on Thursday with third-degree burns

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International

There is only one Hezbollah

April 29, 2016

Nearly three years ago, the European Union finally overcame its longstanding resistance and addressed the issue of adding Hezbollah to its terrorism list. The good news is that the 28 member states, prompted by the determination of Bulgaria, which experienced a deadly Hezbollah attack the year before, and Cyprus, which arrested a Hezbollah operative scouting

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Middle East

Europe’s Populist Surge is a Threat to Jews

April 29, 2016

When one of the pre-eminent left-wing parties in Europe wakes up to find anti-Semitism in its ranks, we should all sit up and pay attention. The U.K. Labour Party led Britain out of the last war after the 1945 General Election. It is one of the longest established Labour movements in Europe, and one of

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International

California Voters Get Their Moment in 2016

April 29, 2016

Home to the country’s biggest economy and largest population, California in most years is more or less irrelevant in one arena: presidential elections. But not this year—in 2016, normally apathetic Californians are waking up to the fact that despite the state’s late primary in early June, they actually matter in this presidential contest, which is

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USA

D.A. should investigate SDSU incident

April 29, 2016

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – When SDSU President Elliot Hirshman was held captive Wednesday in a car for approximately two hours by angry students, that potentially was a matter of false imprisonment and violation of his civil rights that demand investigation by state and federal prosecutors. At the same time, flyers naming individual

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Middle East, San Diego County, USA

Minister: ‘Mimouna is the best symbol of unity in Israel’

Turkey says new Constitution to be secular

Deadly Fish Virus Finally Identified

Neocons Hunt For Third Party Candidates

Labor Party plans new anti- racist code of conduct

Australians protest detention of asylum seekers

UCSD psychiatrist analyzes four Nazis May 12

Trump fans barrage journalist with anti- Semitic slurs

Former SS Guard Breaks Silence At Trial

Self- immolated Nauru detainee dies

There is only one Hezbollah

Europe’s Populist Surge is a Threat to Jews

California Voters Get Their Moment in 2016

D.A. should investigate SDSU incident

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