International

Top GOP Law Enforcement Chiefs Held Secret Weekend Event At Mar-a-Lago

This story is being co-published with MapLight. Republican state law enforcement chiefs dined with their top donors at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort last weekend, according to an agenda obtained by MapLight through a public records request. An agenda for the Republican Attorneys General Association’s fall meeting in Palm Beach, Fla., lists a dinner on

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USA

Donald Trump Was Served Shark Fin Soup in Vietnam

President Donald Trump was treated to a state dinner in Vietnam prominently featuring fish dishes, including a seafood soup containing shark fin—an expensive local delicacy responsible for driving sharks to extinction. The Vietnamese seafood soup, the fifth dish served in the seven-course menu on Saturday, contained another controversial ingredient. Demand for fish maw, also known

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International, USA

Adelson won’t back Bannon’s attempts to oust GOP incumbents

By Eric Cortellessa WASHINGTON — The billionaire casino magnate and GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson said on Monday that he will not support Steve Bannon’s attempts to buck Republican leadership and try to unseat the party’s incumbents from Congress in 2018. “The Adelsons will not be supporting Steve Bannon’s efforts,” Andy Abboud, a family spokesman, told

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USA

45 Holocaust survivors celebrate Bar Mitzvahs at Western Wall

More than 70 years after World War II ended, 45 Holocaust survivors in Israel finally got a chance to celebrate their bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies for the first time yesterday, Monday morning, at the Western Wall, Judaism”s holiest site. The survivors reached bar or bat mitzvah age during the war or immediately afterwards, but

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Jewish Religion, Middle East

Israel at center of free speech debate at two NJ campuses

Rutgers Hillel calls Syrian apologist on faculty a ‘national embarrassment’ Mazen Adi, adjunct professor at Rutgers, served in Syrian Pres. Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Suddenly, two New Jersey college campuses have become battlegrounds for two very different fights facing Jewish students when it comes to the fraught issue of Israel. One battle, at Princeton, is being

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Rivlin meets LA Mayor

President Reuven Rivlin met on Monday with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. During the meeting, the two discussed the strong ties between Israel and the United States and the courageous connection between cities in Israel and Los Angeles. The president invited the mayor to visit Israel in order to better get to know Israeli society.

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Middle East, USA

‘A million Jews in Judea and Samaria within a decade’

The Jewish population in Judea and Samaria is on the brink of a period of major growth, and could top one million residents within 10 to 15 years, a veteran settlement leader said Tuesday morning. Ze”ev “Zambish” Haver, Secretary-General of the Amana settlement organization and a long-time activist in Judea and Samaria, addressed an Amana

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Middle East

Steve Bannon And The Alt-Right Want Jews To Join Them

Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon is urging American Jews to join his war against the Republican establishment — and he’s bringing along a host of white supremacists and alt-right conspiracy theorists with him. “We’re leading an insurgency movement against the Republican establishment,” Bannon told the crowd at the Zionist Organization of America’s annual

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USA

Pro-Nazi posters discovered in university in Western Canada

Racist and pro-Nazi posters were discovered over the weekend at the University of British Columbia (UBC), local radio station CKNW reported. The posters were discovered at the school”s War Memorial Gym on Saturday. The gym is the site of UBC”s annual Remembrance Day events, and students and staff were scheduled to gather there for ceremonies.

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International, Jewish History

Secret Holocaust-era archive on display in Poland

Eight decades ago, Jewish archivists facing death in the Warsaw Ghetto hid a trove of documents they hoped would bear testimony to the sufferings of the Holocaust. Now part of the unparallelled archive has gone on display in its first permanent exhibition at the Polish capital’s Jewish Historical Institute. “This is the greatest Jewish treasure

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International, Jewish History

Jewish Federations demand Israel reverse moves on Western Wall, conversion

By TOI staff LOS ANGELES — The Jewish Federations of North America called on Israel to reverse its “divisive and damaging” steps to freeze an agreement on egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall and its support of a bill that would grant a monopoly to Orthodox authorities in Israel over conversions to Judaism. The JFNA’s

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International, Middle East, USA