Sen. Al Franken says it’s time for Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party to “move on” from her presidential election loss and learn how to better reach voters. “I love Hillary. I think she was very prepared to be president of the United States,” the Minnesota Democrat told Yahoo’s Katie Couric in an interview Thursday. […]
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USAGreenblatt said to have met with architects of 2014 Allen Plan, opposed by Netanyahu and Ya’alon, which was to address Israeli defense concerns over a Palestinian state By Times of Israel staff Assistant to the President and Special Representative for International Negotiations, Jason Greenblatt (l) meets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister’s Office
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Middle East, USALeo Varadkar, a doctor and Ireland’s minister for social protection, Friday became the new leader of Ireland’s ruling Fine Gael party, bringing him one step closer to becoming the country’s next prime minister. Varadkar, who would be the country’s first prime minister who has come out as gay and the first of South Asian descent,
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InternationalRep. Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that President Trump was “dishonoring” God and questioned whether his grandchildren will even be able to breathe air after his announcement a day earlier that he would withdraw from the Paris climate accord. “How is he ever going to explain to his grandchildren what he did to the air they
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The World We Share, USADuring a Friday morning press conference in Los Angeles, comedian Kathy Griffin stood in front of reporters to try and make sense of the backlash against a photograph she posted earlier in the week. Griffin posed with a bloody dummy head that looked like President Donald Trump. In the ensuing days, members of the first
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USARussian President Vladimir Putin has expressed deep opposition to the idea of Sweden joining NATO, calling its potential membership of the U.S.-led alliance a “threat” that would need to be “eliminated.” “If Sweden joins NATO this will affect our relations in a negative way because we will consider that the infrastructure of the military bloc
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InternationalBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM — A recital devoted to three of Schubert’s last sonatas (D 845, 850 and 890) was too good to miss, so we cancelled our subscription tickets to the symphonic concert that happened to fall on the same date and bought tickets for that evening instead. Sometimes life or fate or the
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — One of the many things Israelis are being made aware of, if they honestly reflect on the effect of the Six Day War fifty years after the event, is the distinction between military and political victory. That it was a military victory is obvious. I still recall the euphoria
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Jewish History, Middle EastBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the movie, the Allied commandos sneak through Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia to the bridge they were assigned to blow up. After the requisite setbacks, our heroes enter the internal machinery of a dam upstream of the bridge and detonate their explosives. Then… nothing. Unperturbed, the explosives expert says, “Wait. It is
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris climate agreement Thursday, delivering a blow to worldwide environmentalists, major European powers — and daughter Ivanka. In the process, Trump also revealed that his controversial chief strategist, Steve Bannon, who appeared to have fallen out of favor in recent months, has regained
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The World We Share, USAThe Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland has confirmed that it is considering a request by a pro-Palestinian group to have former Israeli Foreign Minister and Zionist Union MK tried for alleged war crimes for her role in Israel”s counter-terrorism “Operation Cast Lead.” According to Le Temps newspaper, Livni was named in a suit
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International, Middle EastZehut party chairman and former Likud MK Moshe Feiglin blasted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Thursday, blaming him for President Trump”s decision earlier Thursday to leave the US Embassy in Israel at its present location in Tel Aviv. While President Trump had pledged in 2016 to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to the Israeli
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Middle East, USAThe first “Shimon Peres Day” will be held as part of the annual Parade for the State of Israel on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan this coming Sunday, June 4. This year’s parade will be dedicated to the memory of the late Israeli President and Prime Minister. New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo had announced that
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement puts him at odds with the Pentagon, which has been warning for years that climate change poses a critical national security threat. At his confirmation hearing, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis called climate change a “driver of instability” that “requires
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