Tel Aviv’s Milk & Honey Distillery plans to begin commercial sales of its aged liquor in 2019 By Jessica Steinberg The first 100 bottles of Israel’s first malt whiskey, made by Tel Aviv’s M&H Distillery, will be auctioned off on a Scottish whiskey site from August 11-21 (Courtesy M&H Distillery) Here’s a deal: The first […]
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International, Middle East, Travel and FoodWASHINGTON — Even as President Donald Trump renews his threat to undermine the Affordable Care Act, senior Republican and Democratic senators announced plans Tuesday to begin work on a new bipartisan effort to stabilize the 2010 health care law, often called Obamacare. The move — by Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Sen.
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USAPresident Donald Trump can’t be left alone to make decisions regarding matters of national security—at least, that is reportedly the view of his new chief of staff, John Kelly, and of his defense secretary, James Mattis. The two military men, who Trump affectionately refers to as “my generals,” hatched a plan during the initial months
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USABy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — According to Wikipedia, “Eurabia” is a concept used to describe a “conspiracy theory” of globalist elements, coined by author Bat Ye’or in the early 2000s and described in her 2005 book titled “Eurabia: The Euro‐Arab Axis.” Unfortunately, it’s fact, not a conspiracy theory. France and the other EEC
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International, Middle East, Steve KramerPeru’s government is organizing a meeting of Latin American foreign ministers on what it calls Venezuela’s “illegitimate” vote Sunday approving a new government body charged with rewriting the country’s constitution. The meeting, planned for August 8 in Lima, represents some of the international concern expressed Monday about the approval of a National Constituent Assembly. Its
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InternationalArgentina’s foreign ministry is transferring digital copies of nearly 40,000 documents about World War II and the Holocaust to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, D.C. “There are two avenues of interest to us when it comes to Argentina,” Anatol Steck—project director for Central Europe, Latin America and Israel at the international
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International, Jewish HistoryVice President Mike Pence on a visit to Estonia pledged Monday unwavering support of NATO allies and steadfast resistance to Russia aggression, especially in Baltic states that have been feeling intense pressure from Moscow. Mr. Pence said he was in Eastern Europe to deliver a message from President Trump that the “the United States of
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International, USAMEXICO CITY — A journalist celebrating his 29th birthday was shot dead early Monday at a bar in the Mexican resort city of Rosarito. Luciano Rivera Salgado, who covered crime for a Baja California television channel and published a news website called El Dictamen, is at least the eighth journalist to be killed this year
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InternationalCommittee rebukes lawmakers who alleged support for an Israel boycott at Ben-Gurion U, but rejects claim they were paid to hold the meeting By Marissa Newman Ben-Gurion University president Rivka Carmi. (Dani Machlis/Ben-Gurion University) The Knesset’s Ethics Committee last week reprimanded two lawmakers for convening a hearing in which they accused Ben-Gurion University of the
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationAuthor David Dalin’s new book explores the inner lives of trailblazing Members of the Tribe who helped mold the nation’s highest court By Rich Tenorio Eight out of 113 justices to have wielded the gavel in the United States’ highest court can also lay claim to membership in another club — the Tribe — and
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, USA“It was devastating.” That was the reaction from one US Army Captain to President Donald Trump’s decision to ban transgender individuals from military service. Just months ago, Jennifer Sims e-mailed over 200 fellow troops who knew her as Captain Jonathan Sims, to tell them her transgender secret. Now though she is left facing an uncertain
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USAIt’s a rare thing for a militant group often described as shadowy and secretive to bring dozens of foreign journalists to their mountain bases. But Hezbollah did just that on Saturday, eager to show off recent victories against jihadists on Lebanon’s frontier with Syria. The Lebanese Shiite movement, militant group and political party led a
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Middle East, USARussian President Vladimir Putin is defending his massive cut in the size of the U.S. diplomatic mission in Russia, saying it had waited long enough for relations with Washington to improve. Putin said he had hoped “the situation would perhaps change for the better. But it seems that even if the situation is changing, it
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International, USACourt says Meir Zehnwirth inappropriately touched at least 2 girls he taught at the talmud Torah school in Tiberias By Times of Israel staff Meir Zehnwirth was charged with indecent assault on minors while he taught at the Talmud Torah elementary school in Tiberias on July 31, 2017. (Israel Police) An elementary school teacher at
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