[youtube:2035177] Anthony Scaramucci, who has served as White House Communications Director for the Trump Administration, arrived in Israel on Sunday night, and is spending several days in Jerusalem. After landing, he toured the Western Wall and the Old City. This morning (Monday) he arrived at Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem. Tonight he is slated to […]
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Middle East, USABy Irina Nevzlin and Andrew H. Tisch In March of this year, a small group of Jewish philanthropists, activists and thinkers from Israel and around the world met at the Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv. The conclusions that followed, summarized below, will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the opinion
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By Oliver B. Pollak ‘Fellow Travelers’ used to have an awkward anti-communist McCarthyean ring; no longer. Now FT’s are strangers you meet on tours, who travel and dine with you; companions of convenience, from which camaraderie may develop. The New York Times supplements newspaper revenues by sponsoring tours accompanied by reporters to familiar, remote and
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International, Oliver Pollak, Travel and FoodBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−First, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it had lifted an Obama-era ban on importing sport-hunted trophies of elephants from Zimbabwe and Zambia. President Trump initially agreed with the new policy but changed his mind because at first he thought the Obama policy banned the importation of trophy wives from Eastern
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USASDE BOKER, Israel (Press Release) – While turkeys at Thanksgiving are an age-old custom, a new study shows that turkey excrement may have a future as a fuel for heat and electricity. Treated excrement from turkeys, chickens and other poultry, when converted to combustible solid biomass fuel, could replace approximately 10 percent of coal used
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Moshe Dann JERUSALEM — Arm-twisting Israel by liberal and Progressive American Jews is threatening the delicate and vital bonds that link the two major Jewish communities. Oblivious to the consequences of creating dissension and unwilling to accept Israel’s separate and sovereign status, some Reform and Conservative Jewish leaders seem to be engaging in a
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, November 20, 2017 – Charles Manson is dead. The man who masterminded one of the most heinous murder sprees in American history died 8:13 PM Sunday. Deborah Tate, a sister to Manson’s victim Sharon Tate, tells TMZ the prison is contacting all of the victim’s families. Manson has been in prison since his arrest
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USA77 Miles of Jewish Stories; History, Anecdotes and Tales of Travel Along I-8 by Donald H. Harrison; Create Space, 2017, 338 pages including index, $19.95. By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson SAN DIEGO — The 70 chapters of this book appeared originally as individual articles in various editions of San Diego Jewish World, the website edited by
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Donald H. Harrison, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, San Diego County, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSAELM — The road to hell: We know it’s paved with good intentions. The record of the US in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and what the enthusiasts called Arab Spring was collectively the equivalent of a Holocaust, albeit well-meant. American and allied deaths were in the tens of thousands, and others in the
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Raphael Ahren The lower house of Argentina’s parliament last week overwhelmingly voted in favor of creating a national day to commemorate the deadly 1992 bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires. In a November 8 vote, 186 MPs supported the proposal, with one no vote and one abstention. If confirmed by the Senate,
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International, Middle East88th Annual Academy Awards Nominee Luncheon – Arrivals Sylvester Stallone was accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl in the 1980s, according to a shocking police report obtained by the Daily Mail. Retired Las Vegas police department detective sergeant John Samolovitch confirmed to the outlet that the facts alleging that the veteran actor “intimidated” the
By TOI staff President Rivlin on Sunday commuted part of the sentence of a man convicted of killing his rapist and sentenced in 2013 to 20 years in prison. Yonatan Heilo, who has long fought for early release, will be able to ask the parole board for immediate release in the next couple of weeks,
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Middle EastBy Stuart Winer and TOI staff Twenty-two ultra-Orthodox protesters were arrested Sunday, during demonstrations that blocked key junctions in Jerusalem and other cities, after the Jaffa Military Court sentenced 12 draft dodgers to jail sentences ranging from 40 to 90 days. In response to the jail sentences, the Committee for Saving the Torah World, which
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Middle EastDefense Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) on Saturday urged Arab leaders to follow in the footsteps of the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, who visited Israel 40 years ago, and work to achieve peace agreements with Israel. Sadat became the first Arab leader to hold an official visit to Israel, when he met with then-Prime
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