Former “Suits” actress Meghan Markle will get baptized before she walks down the aisle to marry Prince Harry, CNN reported on Tuesday. The day before, the couple announced their engagement for their May 2018 wedding. Rumors swirled about Markle being Jewish, but the American actress went to Catholic school as a child. She is not, […]
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InternationalThe White House pushed back on claims Wednesday that President Donald Trump is days away from announcing the relocation of the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and an official statement recognizing Jerusalem as Israel”s capital. Earlier on Wednesday, Israel”s Channel 2 reported that senior officials in Jerusalem said that the Israeli
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Middle East, USAMonths after a deadly shooting incident adjacent to Israel”s embassy in Jordan, Israel is preparing to replace its ambassador to the Hashemite kingdom in a bid to placate its eastern neighbor and restore full diplomatic relations. An Israeli diplomat said Wednesday that Israel was looking to replace Einat Schlein, the Jewish state”s ambassador to Jordan,
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Middle EastControversy over Roger Waters’ support for an anti-Israel movement has led to German television executives pulling the plug on plans to televise the former Pink Floyd frontman’s rock concerts, according to The Hollywood Reporter. As of now, five TV and radio stations in the country have opted out of airing Mr. Waters concerts next summer,
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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsIsraeli officials expect President Donald Trump to announce plans to relocate the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in the coming days, and to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state. According to a report by Channel 2, senior Israeli officials have claimed that the Israeli government expects an
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Middle East, USATen Democratic senators, among them four Jews, on Wednesday wrote Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu urging him not to demolish Palestinian Arab villages despite the fact that they are illegal and built without authorization. “We have long championed a two-state solution as a just resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” said the letter, initiated by Senators Dianne
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Middle East, USAFormer Israeli Ambassador to the US and current Kulanu MK Michael Oren made a rare public jab at a senior Obama administration official on Wednesday, accusing former Secretary of State and the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry of harboring an “obsessive” anti-Israel bias and antipathy towards the country”s Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyhau. In an
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Middle East, USAStatistics Canada’s release Tuesday of police-reported hate crimes for 2016 shows a 3% jump from 2015 due to increased targeting of specific groups, including the Jewish community. The Jewish community was the most targeted group in 2016, accounting for 16% of all hate crimes across Canada. The report reveals that 221 police-reported hate crimes –
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International, Middle EastA private research university in New York City held a panel discussion on anti-Semitism Tuesday, featuring five far-left activists, including anti-Zionist, Sharia advocate Linda Sarsour. The event, titled “Antisemitism and the Struggle for Justice”, was hosted by the New School on its Manhattan campus. While the panel was ostensibly charged with discussing the rise of
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Middle East, USAThe American Jewish Congress issued a statement encouraging the US administration to move the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as soon as possible. On Tuesday, US Vice President Mike Pence said US President Donald Trump and his administration will “always stand with Israel,” and that Trump was considering when to follow
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Middle East, USAA monument to a group of Jews slaughtered for baking bread in Nazi-occupied Poland might soon be removed, according to local media reports. The owner of the property where the monument currently stands has asked local officials in the town of Chrzanow for permission to remove it, allegedly because he would like to sell the
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International, Jewish HistoryArriving in New York for a series of meetings in the US, Labor party leader Avi Gabbay attacked Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. The Zionist Union is a joint list made up of Labor, MK Tzipi Livni’s defunct Hatnuah party, and the Green Movement. “Israel’s crisis with US Jewry is mostly the result of a
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback worked Capitol Hill on Wednesday in an effort to get his stalled nomination as ambassador for religious liberty moving through a recalcitrant Congress. Brownback, who told reporters last week he was hoping for a vote on his confirmation by Christmas, huddled with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Brownback’s would-be
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USAThe unbridled joy with which Britain’s Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle publicly announced their engagement was a beautiful reminder that love makes all things possible. Their backgrounds could not be more different. Markle, the daughter of a white Jewish father and an African-American mother, is a 36-year-old divorcee from Los Angeles. Prince Harry
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