International

Venezuela’s Government Arrested Wuilly Arteaga For Playing National Anthem

Symbol for Venezuela’s struggle for democracy, violinist Wuilly Arteaga, was arrested during a national strike called by the opposition party. Venezuelan’s are against President Nicolás Maduro’s plans to change the constitution. According to the head of the NGO Penal Forum, Alfredo Romero, the violinist currently remains in custody at the command headquarters of the National

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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

‘We are not thugs’: Black police chiefs push back on Trump’s call to be ‘rough’ with suspects

ATLANTA — Days after police widely criticized President Donald Trump for telling officers to be “rough” with people taken into custody, leaders of a prominent black policing group met with Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday to air their concerns that the remarks could deepen divisions between police and racial minorities. “We are not thugs.

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USA

First Israeli whiskey to be auctioned on Scottish site

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 Food

As Trump mulls cutting off Obamacare aid, Senate begins bipartisan approach

WASHINGTON — 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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USA

Op-Ed: Europe is committing suicide

By 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 Kramer

Peru Calls Latin America Meeting After Venezuela’s ‘Illegitimate’ Vote

Peru’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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International

Argentine WWII Records Could Shed Light on Nazi Germany

Argentina’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 History

Another journalist gunned down in Mexico — the eighth killed this year

MEXICO 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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International

Knesset Ethics panel: MKs wrong to meet on university BDS

Committee 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, & Education