Jewish history is being made in the Ukraine: In the coming days, a 90-year-old will undergo an historic Jewish ritual of Brit Milah. The historic event will take place at the new medical center that was recently established in the Menorah compound in the city of Dnieper Petersburg. The rabbi and 28-year shaliach (emissary) of […]
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International, Jewish Religion, Science, Medicine, & EducationIsraeli police have arrested 15 suspected Jewish extremists following an undercover investigation into a group accused of tracking down and threatening Arab men dating Jewish women, authorities said Sunday. Israeli radio said that among those taken in for questioning was Benzi Gopstein, a prominent leader of the extreme-right group Lehava, but police would not confirm
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Middle EastThe local planning and building committee in Jerusalem is set to approve construction of 176 housing units in the Nof Zion neighborhood, Channel 2 reported. Nof Zion is a Jewish neighborhood adjacent to the Jabal Mukaber neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem. Nof Zion currently has 91 apartments in 7 buildings. The approval of 176 additional housing
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By Landon Breite SAN DIEGO — I always wondered what it was like to lose a home. Now I do. Camp Newman in Santa Rosa, California, was a place that I, as well as many others, called their home. On October 9th we got the terrible news that the camp had burned down. All
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Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food, USAHe may be facing charges over alleged EU subsidy fraud, but billionaire businessman Andrej Babis has won the support of voters in the Czech general election by pushing his trademark anti-corruption and anti-euro ticket. Dubbed the “Czech version of Trump” by Forbes, the wiry, grey-haired, Slovak-born farming, media and chemicals mogul is the Czech Republic’s
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InternationalANAHEIM, Calif.—Khizr Khan, the father of a Muslim Army captain killed in Iraq who feuded with Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign, on Saturday criticized the Trump White House for its clash with a widow of a fallen solider earlier this week. Khan, speaking to reporters after addressing a National Union of Healthcare Workers
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Former Trump administration strategist and GOP agitator Stephen K. Bannon on Friday told California Republicans, whose state party has fallen in membership and political influence, that their salvation lies in putting aside their differences and getting to work — just as they’d done to help move President Donald Trump to his surprise
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USAFired Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly paid $32 million to settle a sexual harassment claim just before he signed his last contract with Fox News. A report in the New York Times published Saturday said O’Reilly made the payment to Lis Wiehl, a longtime contributor to his program, who alleged that O’Reilly forced her into
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Saturday (October 21) said he would curb the powers of Catalonia’s parliament, sack its government and call a regional election within six months in a bid to stop efforts by the autonomous region to break away from Spain. Rajoy said his government had taken the unprecedented decision to restore
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InternationalNew details are emerging about the attack that left four U.S. soldiers dead in Niger as U.S. congressional leaders are demanding answers from the Pentagon. The U.S. Green Berets (special forces), along with four Nigerian soldiers, were killed on October 4 in an ambush in Tongo-Tongo, a village near the border with Mali. On the
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International, USAMaybe it just slipped her mind. Ivanka Trump’s federal financial disclosure report doesn’t mention her past involvement with the charitable foundation that bears her family’s name—and which remains under investigation for self-dealing. President Donald Trump’s daughter is working as an advisor to him in Washington while her two adult brothers run the family’s business empire.
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USAUS President Donald Trump said Saturday he will allow long blocked secret files on the assassination of John F Kennedy to be opened to the public for the first time. The November 22, 1963 assassination — an epochal event in modern US history — has spawned multiple theories challenging the official version that Kennedy was
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USABy TOI staff The Israeli army on Saturday launched a military strike on three Syrian-made artillery cannons across the border in the northern Golan Heights, hours after a pair of projectiles landed in an open field in Israeli territory as a result of spillover fire from the fighting in Syria. “Even if this is just
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Middle EastMK Tzipi Livni (Zionist Union) on Saturday slammed the Israeli government for approving new housing units in Judea and Samaria. “The settlements do not add to Israel’s security,” Livni said. “The State’s concept of security is based on soldiers protecting civilians, and not their protecting a family which goes to live on an isolated hilltop
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