On September 16, Saeb Erekat, Secretary-General of the PLO’s Executive Committee, issued a statement marking the anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon, in which he stressed that “there is no statute of limitations annulling the rights of the Palestinian people’s victims.” Erekat added that the “State of Palestine” would pursue “the Israeli
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Middle EastSeveral hundred ultra-Orthodox Jews scuffled with police in Jerusalem on Sunday in protest against a court ruling that could require them to serve in the army like secular Israelis. The demonstration in an ultra-Orthodox neighbourhood of the city was organised by a particularly hardline group known as the Eda Haredit. Rabbis gave speeches in Yiddish
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Middle EastThe world’s richest Jew may have pledged to give the vast majority of his wealth to charity, but Mark Zuckerberg’s great-grandfather’s kiddush cup is staying in the family. Posting photos of his Shabbat candles and challah on Friday night, Zuckerberg said that he would be giving the ceremonial cup to his eldest daughter, Maxima. Get
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Jewish Religion, USAAn Iraqi vice president warned Sunday that Baghdad would not tolerate the creation of “a second Israel” after the Jewish state became the only country to support a planned Kurdish independence referendum in northern Iraq. The leaders of autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan must “call off the (September 25) referendum that is contrary to the constitution and
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Middle EastThe Israeli Embassy in Ankara was evacuated on Friday as supporters of an ultra-nationalist party demonstrated outside against what they called plans to create a “second Israel” in Iraqi Kurdistan. Utku Reyhan, secretary-general of the Homeland Party, said in a press statement that a unilateral independence referendum called for September 25 by the Kurdistan Regional
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Middle EastLast week, reports surfaced that prominent haredi rabbi Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky ruled that traveling on Shabbat was permitted according to Jewish law for residents seeking to flee Hurricane Irma. The report was based on a video in which the rabbi says that the storm is dangerous and that Jews living there should leave. “The storm
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastDetail from vintage post card from The Green Park hotel in Bournemouth, England (Courtesy) Almost everyone’s heard of the Borscht Belt and its famous hotels — Grossinger’s, Kutsher’s, and the Concord — where New York Jews vacationed and laughed to noted mid-20th century entertainers Milton Berle, Mel Brooks and Danny Kaye. Less known is Bournemouth,
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International, Theatre, Film & BroadcastThe Population and Immigration Authority released on Sunday the most popular names chosen for babies born in Israel over the past Jewish year of 5777. The list includes both Jewish and non-Jewish names. Muhammad was the most popular male name, followed by Yosef/Yussuf, Dovid, Daniel, Udi, Omer, Eitan, Ariel, Noam, and Adam. The most popular
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Middle EastBy Samantha Young | CALmatters Reprinted from The Times of San Diego Back when Assemblywoman Monique Limón served on the school board in Santa Barbara, the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians donated an encyclopedia-style dictionary to the local schools about their language and culture. Limón, born and raised in Santa Barbara, was mesmerized when
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By Donald H. Harrison TIJUANA, Mexico –Tijuana philanthropist Jose “Pepe” Galicot says when he was a child, his Sephardic Jewish family was so poor that when they moved from Mexico City to Tijuana, they couldn’t afford to buy food. So, they packed enough from home for what they thought would last for five days, but
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jose GalicotMexican Independence Day, or El Grito, is celebrated every year on Sept. 16 and this year it falls Saturday. A lot of people in the United States confuse Cinco de Mayo — celebrated on May 5 to mark the Mexican army’s 1862 victory over France at the Battle of Puebla during the Franco-Mexican War (1861-1867)
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InternationalThey carried signs that read “Black Lives Matter,” held fists in the air and marched together as one — blacks, whites, Latinos. A day after a former St. Louis police officer was acquitted in the shooting death of an unarmed black man, tensions remained high in the city and surrounding suburbs on Saturday as protesters
British police have arrested a teenager and raided a house near London in their hunt for whoever planted Friday’s bomb on a commuter train that injured some 30 people. Frightened residents in a suburban street at Sunbury in Surrey were told to quickly leave their homes by police as the nearby property was raided and
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InternationalWhen the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills submitted its emergency management plan to county administrators in July, it included details on how the nursing home would maintain clean linen, distribute canned food and ensure that residents had access to hand sanitizers. It made no mention of how residents would be kept cool if the home
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