Last month, I stood in front of my open dresser, contemplating my underwear drawer. I was packing for a weeklong trip out of the country, where I would be traveling almost exclusively by myself, and I made sure that every pair of undies that came with me was comfortable, unadorned and, most important, completely unflattering.
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USAWe are in a moment of reckoning. For too long, in too many workplaces, women and men have been propositioned, grabbed, licked, kissed and groped. They have seen their careers crumble into dust through no fault of their own. They have been driven out of the industries—journalism, entertainment and, yes, politics—in which they worked for
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USArosie o’donnell donald trump jr. Al Franken’s Thursday resignation found critics in some Democrats who weren’t eager to surrender one of their more personable elected officials and, unsurprisingly, Rosie O’Donnell was one of the voices crying foul. Meanwhile, some on the right wore grins as they watched Franken’s speech on the floor of the senate
U.S Senator Al Franken announced his resignation on Thursday amid a growing firestorm stemming from sexual misconduct allegations – the second Democratic lawmaker to announce a departure this week under a cloud of moral impropriety. More than two-dozen fellow Democratic senators had called on Franken to resign after a news media report quoted a former
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USAUpdated | Two Mondays ago, President Donald Trump was supposed to just drop by a meeting about the fate of the U.S. embassy in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. Trump had campaigned for president in part on moving the embassy to Jerusalem, as had others before him. In June, though, he signed a waiver
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Middle East, USABy Raphael Ahren Israel is banking on social media to win the hearts and minds of the Arab public, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday. Many governments in the region already cooperate closely with the Jewish state, but Jerusalem is increasingly taking to Facebook and Twitter in a bid to sway ordinary citizens, he said.
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Middle East[youtube:2035882] Dozens of Arabs began rioting this afternoon at the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem”s Old City, clashing with police forces stationed in the area. In addition, reports indicate that dozens of Palestinian Arabs are throwing stones at several locations along the Gaza border. IDF forces are responding with crowd dispersal means. Earlier, dozens of Palestinian
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Middle East, USAPalestinians have protested in fury after Donald Trump shattered decades of unwavering US neutrality on Jerusalem. In Ramallah they took to the streets of the West bank city denouncing the United States as being biased in favour of what they called the “oppressor” . “Right now what we are asking for, we are asking the
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Middle East, USASenate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) reportedly advised US President Donald Trump to go even farther in his declaration that the United States government recognized Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel, The Weekly Standard reported. Trump announced that he was “acknowledging the obvious, that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital,” during a speech at
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Middle East, USAYesterday, President Donald J. Trump announced that the United States accepts the prevailing reality and officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the state of Israel. He also issued a directive to the State Department to begin plans to move the Embassy of the United States from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. (This is a process
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Middle EastBy Ben Sales Thirty years ago to this day saw the largest gathering of Jews in American history. On December 6, 1987, some 250,000 Jews came together on the National Mall in Washington, DC, to protest on behalf of Soviet Jewry. The demonstration, one day ahead of a summit between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet
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International, USAThe ‘Neturei Karta’ faction has threatened that its members may leave Israel as a result of US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state. Neturei Karta is a small, extremist haredi faction which opposes the existence of a Jewish state. The faction’s support for the government of Iran
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Middle EastRabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman, one of the most respected decisors of Jewish law in the Lithuanian-haredi community, has be admitted to the Intensive Care Unit at Bnei Brak’s Mayanei Hayeshua Hospital. According to medical staff, the decision was made because of a slight deterioration in Rabbi Shteinman’s condition. Rabbi Shteinman is conscious and in stable
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Middle EastDov Lipman I am thankful for the opportunity to explain the recent gathering honoring Righteous Gentiles in Poland, and my association with Jonny Daniels of the From The Depths foundation. I usually ignore attacks and name-calling and simply focus on my work for Israel, but since I was challenged in such a public and detailed
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