By Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — More than fifty-two years ago, a Dallas businessman named Abraham Zapruder unwittingly filmed the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The 26.6 seconds of silent color 8mm imagery would remain the most examined film in history for decades. When it was eventually shown on television to the American […]
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Jewish Religion, USAORLANDO, Fla. — When Bernie Sanders appeared last week before an audience of 100 or so Democratic House members, the closed-door reception in a basement hearing room on Capitol Hill was distinctly cool. Lawmakers shouted, “Timeline! Timeline!” — pressing him to hurry up and endorse the party’s presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton — and
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USAThe circumstances that led Houston police to shoot and kill Alva Braziel remain murky Sunday as many express doubt at the police justification for the shooting amid heightened tensions across the country. Police say they shot Braziel after encountering him in the street early Saturday morning while on routine patrol. Braziel was pointing a firearm
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USA(AFP) The Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad targeted and killed US reporter Marie Colvin in February 2012 to stop her from covering government atrocities, according to a lawsuit filed in US court on Saturday. The Syrian military intercepted Colvin’s communications and unleashed a barrage of rocket fire on her in the besieged city of Homs,
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Middle East, USAA 21 minute audio file has surfaced online, in which the Hamza Bin Laden, the son of Al Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden, threatened the U.S. for assassinating his father. According to Reuters, the file, entitled “We are All Osama,” features Hamza Bin Laden in a 21-minute speech threatening attacks on the U.S. and its
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International, Middle East, USABarack Obama met with Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in Spain on Sunday, the last big EU state that the US president had yet to visit. Rajoy is still struggling to form a cabinet after an election on June 26. Spain still remains split between four political forces and unable to form a government after 200
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International, USAPresident Obama indirectly excused Hillary Clinton’s careless handling of classified material Saturday by saying the State Department is overwhelmed daily by a “massive influx of information” due to improvements in technology. While cautioning that he wouldn’t comment on Mrs. Clinton’s case, the president said at a news conference in Poland that he’s “concerned” about FBI
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USAA prominent Black Lives Matter activist livestreamed his own arrest at a late Saturday protest in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as tensions continued to rise between American police and racial minority groups. The demonstration was one of several in US cities following the death of two African-American men shot dead by white police officers, their dying
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USAThe US Democratic party’s slide toward an increasingly anti-Israel position, led by Senator Bernie Sanders, has been halted, at least temporarily. During a meeting of the Democratic party drafting committee Saturday, supporters of Senator Sanders proposed an amendment to the Democratic party platform which would urge an “end to occupation and illegal settlements,” in Judea
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Middle East, USARolling tanks and firing artillery recently shattered a delicate truce between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The latest flare-up of this decades-old conflict claimed more than a hundred lives—and tensions remain sky-high despite a cease-fire. Meanwhile, the terrorist group ISIS orchestrated two deadly attacks in the Russian republic of Dagestan. Russia itself continues to menace the Republic
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International, USAPresumptive Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump is considering retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn as a potential vice-presidential running mate, according to multiple reports. Trump’s potential vice president list includes Indiana Governor Mike Pence, former House speaker Newt Gingrich and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Many of Trump’s associates have reportedly urged the real estate mogul
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USALE BOURGET, France – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says he has “no idea” if presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is going to pick him as a running mate, but he knows he’s being vetted closely and a decision is coming soon. Mr. Gingrich, who appeared here on the outskirts of Paris Saturday to
MINNEAPOLIS — Marchers protesting the Wednesday night shooting death of Philando Castile by police caused an hours-long shutdown of part of Interstate 94 west of downtown St. Paul, starting just before nightfall Saturday, with dozens of police officers decked out in riot gear and using tear gas and smoke bombs to try to disperse the
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USAA defiant Iran declared on Saturday it will continue its ballistic missile program, even after UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said that the missile tests are not in the spirit of the country’s landmark nuclear deal with world powers, The Associated Press reports. “Iran will strongly continue its missile program based on its own defense and
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