President 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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InternationalAn American student and three other people linked to the U.S. – either citizens or permanent residents – have lost appeals against 10-year prison sentences they are serving for alleged espionage, Iranian authorities said Sunday. Princeton student Xiyue Wang was imprisoned last summer while conducting dissertation research in Iran. He was subsequently convicted of “collaborating
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Middle East, USAGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday that she would ask the European Union to call off membership talks with Turkey, amid escalating tensions between Berlin and Ankara. “I don’t see them ever joining and I had never believed that it would happen,” she said during a televised debate with Martin Schulz, her Social Democratic rival
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InternationalEditor’s note: North Korea announced Sunday that it detonated a miniaturized thermonuclear device – a device that would make it easier to launch a nuclear weapon against the United States, it territories and its allies along the Pacific Rim. Below is a story that explains the difference between a hydrogen bomb and a thermonuclear or
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International, USALOS ANGELES — California Gov. Jerry Brown Sunday declared a state of emergency in Los Angeles County as firefighters continued to battle a 5,900-acre brush fire in the Verdugo Mountains north of downtown Los Angeles that destroyed three homes and closed a stretch of the 210 Freeway. The governor’s declaration will ensure that state and
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USAFormer President Barack Obama urged then-incoming President Trump to uphold America’s leadership on the global stage, guard democratic institutions and build “ladders of success” for the needy in the secret letter he left for his successor at the Oval Office. The outgoing Democrat also urged Mr. Trump to lean on family and friends to get
Australia’s Northern Territory is to rename racist names on a number of landmarks that have long demeaned indigenous groups. It follows similar measures in the state of Queensland. The official Northern Territory place names register shows several entries with the pejorative term “blackgin.” This refers to a phrase used by white Australians to describe an
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InternationalJapan’s Princess Mako and her fiancé — a commoner — announced their engagement Sunday, a match which will cost the princess her royal status according to a law that highlights the male-dominated nature of Japan’s monarchy. Like all female imperial family members, Mako, who is Emperor Akihito’s eldest granddaughter, forfeits her status upon marriage to
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InternationalHOUSTON �� Storm-tossed Texans pressed ahead Sunday with door-to-door searches for frail and elderly survivors, and accelerated an exodus from evacuation centers where some had sheltered in the wake of the most powerful hurricane to strike the continental U.S. in more than a decade. As tens of thousands in Houston and its environs spent the
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USAA Minneapolis bar has closed down after employees and events hosts learnt that the owner donated $500 to the 2016 Senate campaign of David Duke, the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Club Jäger shut down after several employees decided they no longer wanted to work for owner Julius DeRoma after learning of his
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USAWASHINGTON — Defense Secretary James Mattis warned North Korea Sunday against aggression against the United States or its allies, saying it would trigger a unified world response and what he termed the “total annihilation of a country, namely North Korea.” Speaking outside the White House after President Donald Trump met with his top national security
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