Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife Sara is expected to face criminal charges over fraud amounting to the equivalent of over $110,000 after, among other accusations, she is alleged to have used public funds to throw lavish dinner parties and hire private chefs. The indictment against Sara Netanyahu, anticipated in a matter of weeks, sees […]
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Middle EastErik Ross This September 4 (I confess I’m using Pope Gregory’s calendar) is the third anniversary of the death of a great comedian: Joan Rivers. Wikimedia It’s not speaking ill of the dead to say that Rivers was so vulgar she’d make your eyes water. Shock was her stock in trade. Some of her views
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAA fight broke out aboard a recent Ryanair flight from England to Spain in an incident that saw both male and female passengers throwing punches during the brawl. The airline said following the Thursday incident that a passenger involved in the fight has been banned from flying with the carrier for life. It wasn’t clear
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International, Travel and FoodMariano Gorbatt The first thing that caught my attention about Mohamed was his watch. It was a very old wristwatch, showing the exact 6 PM of a hot and heavily humid Tel Aviv Sunday afternoon. We were a group of sufficiently crazy Latino-Israelis gathered for the first time in our lives for a face to
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Middle EastJAKARTA, Indonesia — Hundreds of protesters in Indonesia rallied for the third straight day Monday as Muslim nations across Asia voiced growing concern over Myanmar’s brutal military crackdown against its Rohingya Muslim minority. Outside the Myanmar Embassy in Jakarta, the demonstrators, mostly hijab-clad women, demanded that the Indonesian government pressure neighboring Myanmar to stop the
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InternationalThe Northwest Passage has an identity crisis. The US thinks it’s international waters. Canada claims it as their internal waters. And as traffic through the arctic sea route increases, experts worry its disputed legal status is leaving the northern Arctic vulnerable to catastrophe. Compromise has kept territorial dispute at bay for nearly 30 years The
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International, USAU.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has claimed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is “begging for war” following Pyongyang’s announcement that it had carried out a successful nuclear test over the weekend. North Korea said on Sunday that it had tested a miniaturized hydrogen bomb that could be fitted to an intercontinental
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International, USAFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Hurricane Irma reached Category 4 status Sunday with winds reaching 130 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. Additional strengthening is expected during the next 48 hours. South Florida was added to the five-day forecast cone and could start to feel tropical storm force winds as soon as Friday evening, the center
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USAHOUSTON — In Kashmere Gardens, a historically black neighborhood and one of Houston’s poorest, the floodwaters have receded, but sorrow is on full display in the piles that line the street. Heaps of soggy carpet padding. Chunks of drywall. Splintered boards, broken dressers and moldering mattresses. A television. A teddy bear. Family photographs and a
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USAChina on Monday again urged diplomatic talks to address the crisis with North Korea and warned at the UN Security Council that it will not allow chaos and war on the Korean peninsula. “The situation on the peninsula is deteriorating constantly as we speak, falling into a vicious circle,” said Chinese Ambassador Liu Jieyi. “The
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International, USAPresident Donald Trump is expected to make an announcement Tuesday on the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. According to news reports, the president has decided to end the Obama-era program. Since its creation in 2012, 800,000 immigrants who were illegally brought to the US as children have received temporary deportation
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USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — “On one side, you have the universalists, armed with their globalism, liberalism, and concerns for human rights. On the other, you have the nationalists, wielding their exceptionalism, isolationism, and often conservative religious values.” The above is taken from an article by Hanna Kozlowska that appeared on the Quartz website.
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International, Middle EastRabbi Yitzhak Ginsburgh, the leader of the Derech Chaim organization that placed a golden statue of Supreme Court President Miriam Naor last week in front of the Supreme Court building, sent a letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu in light of the prime minister”s response to the placing of the statue. Last week, Derech Chaim had
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Middle EastA Jewish man in the Belgian city of Antwerp was physically assaulted Friday night by local youth, local news media have reported. The victim, who is reportedly a member of Belgium”s haredi community, was on his way home from synagogue Friday night when he was accosted by a local youth, who hurled anti-Semitic epithets at
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