A small Orthodox Jewish community nestled within one of New York’s most popular neighborhoods is unfortunately feeling the chicken pox itch. On Monday, the New York City Health Department confirmed an outbreak of chicken pox, more formally known as varicella, among Orthodox Jewish children in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. So far, 75 cases have been seen since […]
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USAFrance’s planned conference on Middle East peace has been postponed, President François Hollande said on Tuesday. It is vital for France to take “a strong initiative” in the dispute, Hollande said. “If not … what will happen? Settlement building, attacks,” he said. The original proposed date falls on the US Memorial Day holiday honouring members
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SAN FRANCISCO, California (Press Release)– Building on the global success and momentum of Character Day 2015, in which hundreds of thousands participated and viewed the films The Making of a Mensch and The Adaptable Mind, Emmy-nominated filmmaker Tiffany Shlain’s nonprofit Let it Ripple this year will broaden the initiative’s reach that uses film and discussion
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Jewish Religion, The World We Share, USAIn a sign that the billionaire class might now be ready to get behind Donald Trump, who spent most of the primary disparaging their influence, Sheldon Adelson—the second most important GOP financier after the Koch brothers—has announced he will pour $100 million into the formerly self-funded Trump campaign. Adelson, whose net worth is $26 billion,
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USANEW YORK — Inside the Second Avenue Deli the scent of cured meats with notes of spicy golden mustard and sour pickles wafts through the air. As one of the few bona fide Jewish delicatessens left in New York City, the eatery is more than a piece of living culinary history. It offers a glimpse
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Jewish History, USABranded by Breitbart columnist as a “renegade Jew” I’ve now found that reading strong ideological blogs is like asking the dentist to give me four root canals and pull out my toenails while he’s at it. Why? Our political “discussion” now seemingly can’t function without a personal attack on someone, rather than sticking to policy
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – As luck would have it, our backstage tour of the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego’s Balboa Park came the day before the opening of Camp David, a play by Lawrence Wright which premiered in Washington D.C. and now has its second opening here, at one of America’s
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Middle East, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — “Sometimes there’s a stink you just can’t wash off, kinda like a venereal disease. … That’s the problem Trump’s got.” It can’t get much worse than that, a quotation in The Economist attributed to a Republican Congressman. Polls are showing that stinking mess tied with Hillary. If there is such
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Jewish upbringing helped celebrated deaf actress break barriers to success Oscar-winning actress Marlee Matlin said the best thing to do for people “who have special needs is to communicate with them.” Marlee Matlin and actor Henry Winkler, a longtime friend and mentor, at the Walk of Fame Ceremony honoring Matlin in Hollywood, May 6, 2009;
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By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach … I am friendly with Donald Trump’s son-in-law and daughter, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. They are both extremely fine people. Jared is a leading advisor to his father-in-law on Israel and is rock-solid on all matters pertaining to the Jewish state. He stems from a famously philanthropically Jewish family who
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WASHINGTON — Former President Bill Clinton defended his record on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and excoriated Hamas tactics in the Gaza Strip Friday afternoon, responding to a heckler at a campaign event for his wife who suggested US foreign policy has contributed to the devastation in the coastal enclave. “I killed myself to give the Palestinians
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — United States State Department spokesman John Kirby released the following statement to the media on Saturday, May 14: Seven leaders of Iran’s Bahai community were arrested by the Iranian government eight years ago. Fariba Kamalabadi, Jamaloddin Khanjani, Afif Naeimi, Saeid Rezaie, Behrouz Tavakkoli, Vahid Tizfahm, and Mahvash Sabet were convicted
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Middle East, USAJewish American millionaire Sheldon Adelson published an op-ed in The Washington Post on Friday, in which he endorsed Donald Trump for president. If Trump isn”t elected president, warned Adelson, Americans would get a third term of Barack Obama in the form of Hillary Clinton. “While the primary cycle still has some important elections ahead, it
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(AFP) Black American leader Jesse Jackson voiced “disgust” Wednesday. May 11, at the ideas of French far-right veteran Jean-Marie Le Pen, after the surprise revelation that they had dined together in Paris. The pair traded tense Twitter posts after the far-right anti-Semite posted a picture of them at a restaurant in the French capital at
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