While for most Americans, Thanksgiving Day is for feasting, football and giving thanks, for Native Americans, it is a reminder of dead ancestors, racial slurs still being worn on football jerseys and families around the nation feasting on food from colonized agricultural land. Native Americans say the day is not a holiday but rather a
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USADemocracySpring/Twitter The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade got a taste of politics on Thursday as a group of people broke through barriers and sat in the middle of the parade route. The protesters wore shirts that showed they were protesting in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The “Dreamers” — named after
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USAA Kuwaiti writer recently said that Israel was an independent and legitimate sovereign state and that there was no occupation, but rather “a people returning to its promised land.” The writer, Abdullah Al-Hadlaq, made the comments in an interview which was broadcast by the Kuwaiti Alrai TV channel on November 19 and translated by the
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Middle EastThe president of Rutgers University in New Jersey has come under fire after he publicly defended several professors accused of anti-Semitism, and appeared to disparage a Jewish media outlet which helped publicized the professors” behavior. Over the past few weeks, an American-Jewish media outlet, The Algemeiner, published a series of articles publicizing blatant examples of
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAThe President of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, refused a call from President Donald Trump’s senior adviser, Jared Kushner, this week, after the U.S. threatened to close the Palestine Liberation Organization’s office in Washington, D.C., according to Israeli media reports. Kushner had been working to broker peace talks between Palestine and Israel. Abbas’s move comes after he
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Middle East, USAIsrael’s deputy foreign minister, Tzipi Hotovely, said that Jews living in the United States live a “quite convenient life.” For that reason, that they would never “send their kids to fight for their country.” In an interview with Israeli news channel i24 this week, the minister tackled issues that have increased tensions between the U.S.
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Middle East, USAJewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett on Wednesday ruled out the possibility that his party would be part of a government headed by Labor party leader Avi Gabbay. In an interview with the Judea and Samaria-based Galey Yisrael radio station, Bennett said that he and Gabbay have a good personal relationship, but Jewish Home will not
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Middle EastThe Hebrew Charter School in Harlem is a public school accepting both Jewish and non-Jewish students from the neighborhood and its environs. The school was founded by the Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life, and students are taught only in Hebrew. Students of all ages learn to speak, think, and sing in Hebrew, regardless of where
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USARabbi Yitzhak Ibrahim Zada, the leader of Turkey’s Jewish community and highly respected by the Turkish government, opposes the appointment of Israeli Consul General Yossi Levi-Sfari, a Thursday morning report by Yediot Ahronot said. Levi-Sfari, 45, is openly gay, and lives with his male partner. He arrived in Istanbul with his partner, Roni Goldberg, one
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Middle EastLocal police have launched an investigation after anti-Semitic graffiti was spray painted on a sidewalk near a Jewish private school in Thornhill, Ontario, north of Toronto. A staff member from the Kamin Education Centre, a campus of the Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto, discovered a swastika spray painted on the sidewalk next to the school
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InternationalPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is aware of the heavy pressure from US Jewry, has responded swiftly to the storm stirred up by Deputy Prime Minister Tzipi Hovotely. During an interview in English on the i24news program, Hovotely spoke extensively about Israel’s relations with US Jewry. She mentioned the event in which she had been
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — A long and checkered medical history has combined with more than a half century of political science to sharpen my sense that uncertainties are inherent in science, and are the most interesting elements of doing science. Some will already be chortling at the notion of political science. True, there are softer
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationJones Ad Alabama Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones is using the words of “conservative voices,” including Ivanka Trump and Jeff Sessions, in a new ad against embattled Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore. Jones’s new ad features quotes attributed to first daughter Ivanka Trump, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and Senator Richard Shelby, R-AL, talking about the
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USAPM attends Independence Day military parade BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Saad Al-Hariri yesterday shelved his decision to resign as prime minister at the request of President Michel Aoun, easing a crisis that had deepened tensions in the Middle East. Hariri made his announcement after returning to Beirut for the first time since he quit abruptly on Nov
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