A Florida man in a police chase attempted to get off the hook this week by employing an unusual name drop: President Donald Trump. Aric Frydberg, a 33-year-old from Hollywood, Florida, called 911 to ask for help while he was being pursued on the highway Tuesday morning. Collier County Sheriff’s Office deputies had spotted and […]
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USAPoland will build a museum focused on life and death in the infamous World War II-era Warsaw Ghetto, where Nazi Germany imprisoned nearly 500,000 Jews during the Holocaust, a minister said Friday. “The museum will be located in a building that had been used as a children’s hospital inside the ghetto and will be established
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The Jews of Key West: Smugglers, Cigar Makers, and Revolutionaries (1823-1969) by Arlo Haskell; Sand Paper Press; 2017; 170 pages plus notes, bibliography and index; $24.00. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Arlo Haskell’s book on the Jews of Key West is unlike most other local histories in that it is fueled by
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History, USAMore than 2,800 bible-related artifacts will be presented to the public starting on Friday, as the Museum of the Bible swings open its doors in Washington, D.C. But the fanfare over the capital’s newest museum hasn’t overshadowed the scandal involving the project. Hobby Lobby, an arts and crafts supply store owned by the Evangelical Christian
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, USA[youtube:2035085] [youtube:2035086] About 80 immigrants from the lost tribe of Menashe (“Bnei Menashe”) from northeastern India, arrived in Israel Thursday morning, landing at Ben-Gurion Airport with the assistance of the Shavei Yisrael organization. This is the second group of Bnei Menashe arriving in Israel this week, bringing the total number of new immigrants to 162.
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International, Middle EastThe King of Saudi Arabia plans to step down and announce his son as his successor next week, the British newspaper Daily Mail reported on Thursday, citing a source close to the country’s royal family. The move is seen as the final step in 32-year-old Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s power grab, which began earlier this
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Middle EastThe foundation maintaining the Amsterdam house where Jewish diarist Anne Frank hid from Nazis during World War II said Thursday they had bought another property where her family lived in the 1930s. But the Anne Frank Stichting said it had no plans to use the “other home” as a museum, like the one in Amsterdam’s
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, InternationalSouth Korea”s ambassador to UNESCO, Lee Byoung-hyun, was elected on Thursday as chairman of the Executive Board, defeating Iranian Ambassador Ahmad Jalali. Lee won the ballot of the 57-member Executive Board by 32 votes against 25 for Jalali, reported Algemeiner. Israel welcomed the Iranian defeat. Israel”s ambassador to UNESCO, Carmel Shama-Hacohen, thanked “Western efforts, especially
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International, Middle EastA prominent New York university has drawn criticism for its upcoming panel discussion on anti-Semitism in the US, after it was announced that a prominent pro-Sharia law, anti-Zionist activist would be leading a panel featuring far-left, anti-Israel figures. The New School, a private research university in Manhattan, has organized a special event this month focusing
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Middle East, USAFor years, Rabbi Adin Even-Yisrael Steinsaltz, 80, has been working to make the Jewish library accessible to every Jew and anywhere in the world. With his own hands the rabbi built a life project that continues gaining momentum from day to day. Today, much of the Talmud has already been translated into several languages, including
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish Religion, Middle EastAn Australian lawmaker has caused controversy after saying that Jewish and Musim bakers should be allowed to deny the sale of wedding cakes to followers of the other faith. Keith Andrews, a lawmaker for the conservative Liberal party and former minister, is a staunch opponent of same-sex marriage and on Wednesday made the point that
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InternationalRoy Moore Lawyer Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore’s lawyer went on MSNBC to defend his client, but his bizarre defense of Moore left the hosts with more questions than answers. During an interview Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Live With Velshi & Ruhle,” Moore’s lawyer, Trenton Garmon, was questioned by Ali Velshi and Stephanie Ruhle about his
A political appointee from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) resigned in an abrupt manner Thursday after previously made derogatory remarks by him about black people and Muslims on conservative talk radio resurfaced. Rev. Jamie Johnson who was appointed as the head of faith-based and neighborhood partnerships at the Department of Homeland Security in April
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USAThe Dalai Lama says he has appointed emissaries to attend international engagements or speak on his behalf indefinitely. Citing increasing physical fatigue, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader made the comments while meeting with a group of international youth leaders brought to Dharmsala, India, by the Washington-based Institute of Peace. “I’m 82 years old, and since
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