The White House, with the backing of Ivanka Trump, will end an Obama-era policy that would have required business owners to document how much they pay their workers alongside their gender, race and ethnicity. The Trump administration is scrapping the scheme, which was due to come into force in the spring this year, on the […]
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — I’m not an expert on Iran. I don’t speak the language, and my visit there was long ago. However, one cannot live here for more than 40 years without being exposed to a great deal of media reports and commentary, as well as a number of individuals with Persian backgrounds and
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LOS ANGELES (Press Release) –Rob Eshman, longtime editor-in-chief and publisher of the Jewish Journal, has announced he will be leaving his position on September 26. Eshman, who has written and sold two movie projects while at the Journal, said that after 23 years at the paper, he wants to switch the focus of his career
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USAEdwin Black’s latest 5–part investigative series, Hillel at the Crossroads, is based on more than 70 interviews in 4 countries, and the acquisition of many documents and internal emails. This is Part 2. Click here to read Part 1: How Things Broke Down in Boston By Edwin Black WASHINGTON, D.C. — Northeastern University Hillel
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Edwin Black, USABy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — I find it extremely hard to call you “President Trump” because sadly for America, you neither act like a president nor speak like one. You neither have the moral authority that a president needs to project, nor the courage of one. You have neither the vision of an enlightened
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JERUSALEM (Press Release) –the Israel Rescue Coalition (IRC) mobilized Wednesday to dispatch a team comprised of elite members of United Hatzalah’s Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit to Houston, Texas, in order to provide mental and emotional stabilization to people who need it. The team includes psychologists, psychiatrists, and therapists and will be arriving in
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Middle East, USAThe State Department will retain a special envoy to monitor anti-Semitism, but other roles dealing with high-profile topics such as climate change and the closure of Guantánamo Bay will be scrapped as standalone positions, as part of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s efforts to streamline department functions. Tillerson made his decisions public Monday in a
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International, The World We Share, USAIn TV interview, Mubarak Al-Fadil Al-Mahdi blames Palestinians for ‘holding back developmental progress in the Arab world’; Hamas denounces his comments By Times of Israel staff Mubarak Al-Fadil Al-Mahdi, Sudan’s minister for investment, is interviewed on Sudanese television. (Screen capture: YouTube) A Sudanese minister said any possible normalization of ties between Sudan and Israel would
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Middle EastTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday accused Israel of undermining the efforts to reach a two-state solution, calling on the Jewish state to end such actions. “To find a solution and provide peace is not only in Palestinians” favor but also that of Israel,” he said during a meeting in Ankara with Palestinian Authority
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Middle EastAmid a climate of ‘hate-baiting’ in the US, a bizarre choice of license plate numbers is driving one reporter up the walls By Marshall Weiss DAYTON, Ohio — A bizarre byproduct of the surge in hate activity and hate-baiting in the United States is debate about the nature and usage of the word “goy.” When
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Travel and Food, USAUN Secretary-General H.E. António Guterres arrived on Monday to the the Grove of Nations in Jerusalem, as a guest of KKL-JNF World Chairman, Mr. Daniel Atar. Together with Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon and Atar, Guterres planted a tree in a formal ceremony. This marks the first visit of Secretary General Guterres
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International, Middle EastSam Eskenasi On Friday, David J. Cape, Chair of the Board of Canada’s Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), published an article in the Canadian Jewish News advocating the need to find a balance between awareness and “outrage” when responding to anti-Semitism. Cape argues that the community should breakdown incidents into categories, differentiating between
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InternationalAyelet Shaked says she plans to amend ruling preventing state from indefinitely detaining asylum seekers who refuse deportation By Times of Israel staff Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked speaks at the Justice Conference of the Israeli Bar Association in Tel Aviv on August 29, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90) Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked accused the High Court of
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Middle EastDefense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Tuesday approved granting official status to the Jewish community of Hevron. The move will unite the Jewish residents from a municipal perspective so that they will not be reliant on the Palestinian Authority’s Hevron municipality, as as stipulated in the Hevron agreement of 1997. Among other things, it was decided
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