Jenny Neuman On Sunday December 3, seven months after my Birthright trip, I marched with hundreds of Jewish students and young Jews to the offices of the Birthright Israel Foundation in New York City, as part of Jewish Voice for Peace’s #ReturntheBirthright campaign. I watched my peers drop fake ‘Adelson Airlines’ tickets into a giant […]
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Middle East, USASix Arab residents of Jerusalem were arrested recently in connection with a pair of firebomb attacks on Jewish vehicles in the capital. According to a police spokesperson Tuesday, the six suspects were involved in two separate incidents over the course of a week in which private vehicles owned by Jewish residents of the capital were
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Middle EastBy Moshe Dann JERUSALEM — President Trump’s offer of the “ultimate deal,” a “peace plan” to end the Arab-Israeli conflict, has been rejected by the Arabs many times before, and it will be rejected again. The process is the same: as former Foreign Minister Abba Eban observed, “the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss
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Jewish History, Middle EastA Reflection by David Gregory From American Jewish World Service Every winter, as the days shorten and darken, I look forward to Chanukah. The sight of the candles over eight nights helps us create those sacred moments that daily life so often crowds out. The flicker of the flame evokes history, identity, shared experience. I
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Jewish Religion, USAJoy Reid MSNBC’s Joy Reid apologized after a Twitter user discovered a very dark part of her past. Reid, who usually puts others in the hot seat, found herself on the receiving end of criticism for a number of insensitive comments she made on her personal blog regarding former Florida Governor and Current Florida Representative
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAAnother big name in fashion photography, Bruce Weber, has been accused of sexually harassment involving a male model, according to a suit filed in New York. The 71-year-old Weber, who worked for Vogue and helped forge the image of such brands as Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren and Abercrombie & Fitch, is alleged to have molested
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USANew York’s Metropolitan Opera said Sunday it was suspending its famed longtime music director James Levine after multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. The premier US opera house said Levine would no longer appear at the Met this season and that it had hired a former US prosecutor to investigate the accusations. “Based on these new
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAA 6-year-old child with Down syndrome was reported for “terrorism” by a substitute teacher in Pearland, Texas, Thursday. According to a report by KRIV, a Fox affiliated television station, Mohammed Suleiman attended C.J. Harris Elementary School in Pearland. In the report, Mohammed’s father, Maher Suleiman said, “Mohammad was born with Down Syndrome chromosome 21.” He
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USABollywood icon Shashi Kapoor — a star of 1970s Indian cinema and a member of the Hindi film industry’s famous Kapoor family — died on Monday aged 79 after a long illness, his family said. The multiple award-winning actor died at a hospital in Mumbai on Monday evening, his nephew Randhir Kapoor told the Press
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International, Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & BroadcastPresident Donald Trump reportedly made Hope Hicks, now his communications director, steam his pants while he was still wearing them and scolded her when she forgot the wrinkle-erasing device. Hicks, who worked as his press secretary at the time, was in charge of making sure Trump’s pants and jacket were sharp when they flew on
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, USAA senior Turkish government official on Monday warned of a “major catastrophe” if the United States recognises Jerusalem as Israel’s capital despite a flood of warnings from the Arab world. “If the (current) status of Jerusalem is changed and another step is taken … that would be a major catastrophe,” Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag
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Middle East, USARep. Ron DeSantis said Monday that Congress is prepared to hold members of the FBI and Justice Department in contempt for not complying with requests related to the Trump-Russia investigation. “Devin Nunes has been trying to get this information from DOJ and the FBI for months and they’ve stonewalled every step of the way,” Mr.
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USASANAA, Yemen — Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen’s deposed strongman who ruled the country for more than three decades, was killed Monday as fighting raged between his followers and their former rebel allies, according to officials on both sides of the conflict. There were conflicting accounts about the circumstances of Saleh’s death, but video circulating on
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Middle EastEgypt has declared its intention to hold open elections for the position of president next year, but the fates of those who have thus far thrown their hats in the ring suggests that the competition might not be entirely free and fair. Take the case of former prime minister Ahmed Shaifq, who had been living
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