The residents of the ‘Machpelah House’ in Hevron agreed to be evacuated from their home Sunday. The residents told the Supreme Court that they would agree to leave the homes they claim were legally purchased if the State agreed to demolish a nearby storehouse illegally set up by local Arabs. Jews took possession of the
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Middle East[youtube:2036012] Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Sunday, days after President Donald Trump declared that the United States recognized Jerusalem as Israel”s capital city, and announced that the State Department would begin the process of relocated the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. President Donald Trump
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International, Middle EastA large protest held in New York City”s Times Square on Friday against US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel”s capital featured chants calling for violence and the destruction of the Jewish state, Algemeiner Journal has reported. In video footage captured by the advocacy group Reservists on Duty (RoD), protesters clad in keffiyehs and waving Palestinian
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USAThree people have been arrested after masked youths surrounded a synagogue in Gothenburg, Sweden, and hurled firebombs at it. The synagogue was hosting a youth event at the time, but no one was injured, Associated Press said. A Jewish cultural centre next door to the synagogue was also attacked. Gothenburg police spokesman Peter Nordengard said
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InternationalThe Ministerial Legislative Committee approved a government proposal sponsored by Labor and Social Services Minister Haim Katz (Likud) which would allow the minister to define and limit the conditions under which government employees or employees of state-owned entities may be employed on the Sabbath. Under the proposal, the Labor and Social Services Minister would be
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastOne of the Trump administration’s top diplomats, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, wished CNN host Jake Tapper a “Merry Christmas” on Sunday — even though he is Jewish. At the end of an interview with Haley about President Donald Trump’s decision to accept Jerusalem as the Israel’s capital, Tapper concluded by acknowledging Haley’s Christian faith. “Madam
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Donald’s speech about Jerusalem was his best performance to date. Perhaps because it was tightly controlled. He read a prepared presentation whose details had been known and commented upon for several hours. We didn’t have to experience the bi-lingual confusion of a simultaneous translation in Hebrew overlaying the President’s English.
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By Juliet Moses AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Sometimes, when considering the past, it is tempting to indulge in a “what if” thought experiment. 2017 is a year of milestones in the Arab-Israeli conflict. It is 50 years since the Six Day War, 100 years since the Balfour Declaration, which was the British Government’s statement of
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International, Middle EastNEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (Press Release) – StandWithUs applauds the Rutgers University for taking action against Professor Michael Chikindas, after he was exposed for spreading anti-Semitism, homophobia, and other forms for bigotry on social media. The Rutgers administration announced that Chikindas would be removed from teaching required courses, fired from his position as director of
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Lloyd Levy LONDON, England — There is hysteria in much of the British press, and BBC, to the USA recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital. This is almost to be expected. The British Government under Theresa May, is pro Israel, but opposes the move. Our Prime Minister takes every opportunity to oppose President Trump,
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International, Lloyd Levy, Middle East, USAThe Undoing Project; a Friendship that Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis; W.W. Norton and Co. (c) 2017. By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — In this book Michael Lewis sets out to describe the way two Israeli psychologists worked together over the course of several years to develop a theory about the process
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle EastLebanon’s prime minister on Saturday criticised a visit by an Iraqi Shiite militia leader to Lebanon’s ceasefire line with Israel, saying it violated local law. The trip by Qais al-Khazali, the founder and leader of the Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia, was organised by Lebanon’s Hezbollah, a powerful armed movement that has fought against Israel. A
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Middle EastA new Dustin Hoffman accuser just came forward with her own story of sexual harassment and abuse by the actor. Broadway star Kathryn Rossetter revealed several details about the incident during a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter. Rossetter claimed that Hoffman groped and sexually harassed her during the production of “Death of a Salesman.”
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAThe office of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo defended its hiring practices after facing scrutiny from the FBI on Friday. Cuomo’s office dismissed an investigation that the governor’s practice of hiring individuals to work in his office but paying them via state agencies and public authorities, the Albany Times Union reported on Friday. The FBI
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