By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Tzipi Hotovely is an Israeli success story. Born in 1978 to immigrants from Georgia she became a lawyer and is now a doctoral student at Tel Aviv University. She married a lawyer and is the mother of two young children. For the last eight years she has been a Member […]
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Middle East, USABy Renee Ghert-Zand You can be certain Saul Marks isn’t scamming you when he calls to say you have a windfall coming your way. The money he’ll tell you about is a legitimate inheritance you didn’t even know you were entitled to. BBC One watchers will recognize Marks from “Heir Hunters,” a reality show about
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International, Sports & CompetitionsSaturday marked the 10th day since the ARA San Juan submarine reported its last position off Argentina’s southern coast. Reports of a sound detected underwater near the last known position of the vessel suggest it might have imploded after reporting an electrical problem. What do we know about the missing Argentine submarine? https://t.co/ldzPSC49Os pic.twitter.com/FMQTb0ct1x— euronews
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InternationalBy TOI staff Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will reportedly take over the Health Ministry if current Health Minister Yaakov Litzman on Sunday follows through on his promise to resign. According to a report Saturday night on Hadashot news (formerly Channel 2), Netanyahu is planning to hold on to the cabinet position, rather than appoint a
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Middle EastThe United States warned Pakistan on Saturday that there would be “repercussions” in bilateral relations unless Islamabad immediately re-arrested and prosecuted an Islamist leader accused of masterminding the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, India. The warning came after Pakistani authorities on Friday acted on a court order and freed Hafiz Saeed, a U.S.-designated global terrorist, from
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International, USABANGKOK — In August, responding to the first reports of Rohingya Muslims fleeing an army-led crackdown in Myanmar, Pope Francis called for prayers for “our Rohingya brethren.” “Let all of us ask the Lord to save them, and to raise up men and women of goodwill to help them, who shall give them their full
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InternationalDonald Trump is reportedly not happy with his daughter Ivanka’s condemnation of embattled GOP senate candidate Roy Moore. Moore, who is accused of sexual misconduct by five women, one of whom claimed she met Moore when she was just 14 years old, was slammed by the first daughter but has received support from the president.
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USAPresident Trump said he turned down Time magazine after being told there were conditions for being named its next Person of the Year, in turn prompting the publication to publicly refute the president’s claim Friday evening. “Time Magazine called to say that I was PROBABLY going to be named ‘Man (Person) of the Year,’ like
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USAThe US will stop supplying arms to Kurdish fighters in Syria, President Trump told Turkey’s president on Friday according to Ankara, a move sure to please Turkey but further alienate Syrian Kurds who bore much of the fight against the IS group. In a phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Donald Trump said
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Middle East, USAThree days of national mourning began in Egypt on Saturday after the deadliest militant attack in the country’s modern history. Assailants killed 235 people when they bombed a mosque in North Sinai during Friday prayers. More than 100 others were wounded. No group has claimed responsibility for the carnage at the Al Rawdah mosque in
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Middle EastDonald Trump’s White House may no longer be a family-run business in the years ahead, if Chief of Staff John Kelly’s conversations with the president’s advisers reflect a possible foreshadowing of departures among the first family. The former secretary of national security—now tasked with heading Trump’s day-to-day operations in the West Wing—has discussed the possibility
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USAA senior security official in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has sparked outrage after calling for the bombing of Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based media network. In a series of posts of Twitter on Friday, Dubai Lieutenant General Dhahi Khalfan launched a scathing attack against Al Jazeera blaming the network for a bomb and gun assault
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Middle East© By Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, California — Sports, recreation, athletics promote healthy living, competition and social networks. They can be lifelong habits, even obsessions. When a team member dies they are missed, mourned, and remembered by the remaining teammates. You will not get this from reading newspaper obituaries. Joseph Goldstein and Peter Craig are examples.
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Obituaries & memorials, Oliver Pollak, Sports & Competitions, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — It was a bit of heaven; now it is a chunk of hell. Muslim extremists are killing each other in the wilderness where Moses received the Law; in Israel, hands are wringing and hearts are breaking. In a grisly familiar pattern, some 30 armed men entered the Rawdah
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