SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Adam L. Braverman, a veteran prosecutor who has spent a significant part of his government career pursuing large-scale international drug trafficking cartels, took the oath of office today to become U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California following his interim appointment by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. “It is an
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By Donald H. Harrison JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK, California – The story is told on this national park’s website that Mormon travelers gave the Joshua Tree its name: “Legend has it that these pioneers named the tree after the biblical figure, Joshua, seeing the limbs of the tree as outstretched in supplication, guiding the
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Travel and Food, USABy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — The unspeakable atrocities that are happening in South Sudan are unfathomable, not only because of the scope of savagery in the war between the Dinka and Nuer peoples, but also because it defies every tenet of our civilized being in which we take so much pride. Civilization, however, has
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Alon Ben-Meir, InternationalBy Jessica Steinberg In “The Museum,” a documentary about Jerusalem’s Israel Museum, filmmaker Ran Tal takes viewers on a tour behind the scenes, offering a masterful view of the tremendous cultural institution in just 74 minutes. Tal does the job delicately and carefully, using a wide view of staff members and visitors to show how
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Middle EastNorth Korea’s state media on Wednesday slammed Donald Trump for insulting leader Kim Jong-Un, saying the US president deserved the death penalty and calling him a coward for cancelling a visit to the inter-Korean border. An editorial in the ruling party newspaper Rodong Sinmun focused its anger on Trump’s visit to South Korea last week,
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International, USAA group of Democrats on Wednesday announced that they would be filing multiple articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, marking the most significant push to remove the president from office. The move was led by Representative Steve Cohen of Tennessee, who first declared his intention to initiate the impeachment process following Trump’s controversial “both
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USANEWARK, N.J.—The sixth full day of deliberations at the corruption trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez came and went without a single note or question from the jury — and no verdict. Jurors emerged from 5{ hours of discussions Wednesday afternoon with their heads hung, seemingly fatigued. U.S. District Court Judge William H. Walls dismissed
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USAUCLA freshmen basketball players LiAngelo Ball, Cody Riley and Jalen Hill were suspended indefinitely by the school on Wednesday after returning from China where they were held last week for shoplifting. UCLA coach Steve Alford said at a news conference Wednesday that the trio will not take part in practice or games while the school
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International, USAAustralians voted in favour of allowing same-sex couples to marry, official results showed Wednesday, sending the task of legalising marriage equality to a deeply divided parliament. Almost 62 percent of the 12.7 million people who participated in the two-month postal survey voted in favour of allowing gay marriage, the Australian Bureau of Statistics announced at
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InternationalHungary expressed “shock” Wednesday at a US plan to finance independent media outlets outside Budapest, a move it called “intervention in an ally’s internal affairs”. Last week Washington announced a call for funding applications totalling some $700,000 (euros) for media projects outside the Hungarian capital. The bidding projects should aim to “increase citizens’ access to
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International, USABy TOI staff A Jewish member of the UK’s Parliament is under formal investigation by the British Labour Party for alleged sexual harassment, according to reports Wednesday. Ivan Lewis, the lawmaker representing Manchester’s Bury South constituency, was accused by a woman of stroking her leg and propositioning her at a Labour Party fundraiser in 2010,
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InternationalAttendees of the fourth annual Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom Muslim Jewish Women’s Leadership Conference held hands to form a circle around the entire room. Photos by Karen Mancinelli/Drew University Sheryl Olitzky, cofounder of the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom (SOSS), stood up before a largely female audience of some 630 Muslims and Jews and said, “For
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Middle East, USAAn unprecedented joint declaration released Wednesday by Members of Congress and Knesset has laid our core principles for a new paradigm to end the Israel-Palestinian Arab conflict ahead of an expected new push for Middle East peace by President Donald Trump. The declaration, signed by members of the Congressional Israel Victory Caucus (CIVC) and the
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Middle East, USAThe Genesis Prize Foundation announced Wednesday that US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would receive the foundation’s first ever Lifetime Achievement Award. The Genesis Prize, which was called the ‘Jewish Nobel’ by Time Magazine, recognizes Jewish people who have attained recognition and excellence in their fields. The foundation said that the five previous recipients
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