One night last summer, Jeffrey Tanenhaus did in Manhattan what people in New York do about 35,000 times each day: He unlocked a Citi Bike from a bike-share station. With more than 300 such kiosks sprinkled mostly around Manhattan and Brooklyn, Citi Bike had become New York’s newest mode of transportation, and one of its […]
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USAIsraeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is surprisingly popular in the United States, ranking among the top 10 most admired men. According to a poll published Saturday by the UK-based YouGov polling service, Netanyahu was tied with the Dalai Lama as the 9th most admired man in the United States. That ranking put him ahead of
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Martin Luther King III, the son of American civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr. and President of the Drum Major Institute, held a special ceremony Sunday to honor Ethiopian-Israeli community activists. King held the event along with Chairman of the Executive of The Jewish Agency for Israel Natan Sharansky. Honorees included singer Idan Raichel,
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International, Middle East, USABy Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — As I write this the AOL news feed has forty-two items – fourteen of which are about the activities of various “celebrities” – including the clothing they wear (and malfunctions thereof), their romantic/marital escapades, legal and criminal entanglements, as well as their political opinions. Why a “celebrity’s” political opinion is
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAThe Middle East Quartet, made up of the US, EU, UN, and Russia, is scheduled to release a major policy report later in coming weeks, and senior diplomats involved in its drafting have indicated that the US is taking a far harder line on Israel than in the past. The report, which is likely to
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After not visiting Israel for nine years, Hany Baransi, the owner of the Nazareth Restaurant and Deli in Columbus, Ohio, needed to be home in Haifa surrounded by family who would understand what he’s been going through lately — terrorism. On February 11, Baransi’s popular restaurant was attacked by a machete-wielding assailant. The attacker, 30-year-old
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Middle East, USAJewish lawyer David Friedman defended his decision to advise Donald Trump on Israel in a savage op-ed Friday, after fellow Jew Peter Beinart accused him and Trump exploiting Jewish interests for political capital. Beinart leveled the harsh criticism in an op-ed for the left-leaning Israeli paper Haaretz, saying Friedman was lending Trump legitimacy among Jews
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It seems appropriate to call these two contenders for the world’s most powerful office by their first names, Donald and Hillary. Even this far away from their campaigns, where the news is usually about something else, we’ve been listening for more than a year to a great deal of commentary, along
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Ira Sharkansky, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. — In a rare joint appearance of Israeli and Saudi Arabian officials, the kingdom’s Prince Turki al-Faisal and IDF Maj. Gen. (ret.) Yaakov Amidror shared a stage Thursday night in Washington, debating ways to advance a two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians, while also expressing common concerns over the Iranian nuclear deal and
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Jewish American billionaire Sheldon Adelson on Thursday night revealed he will be supporting Donald Trump in his presidential campaign, and stated that the real estate mogul will be a good president in strengthening ties with Israel. Speaking to the New York Times at a gala dinner in Manhattan for the Jewish organization World Values Network,
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By Nina Brodsky EL CAJON, California — Pastor Dumisani Washington, African American Baptist pastor, a gentle and fiery Israel advocate and orator spoke here May 4 about “Zionism and Justice: Why Christians Need to Lead in Supporting Israel.” He delivered his case boldly and eloquently to more than 200 Christians and Jews at Skyline Church. Dumisani took
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Middle East, San Diego County, USAOne day after real estate mogul Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee, a haredi magazine published an interview with the Manhattan billionaire in which the GOP standard-bearer discussed Iran, Israel, the rise of anti-Semitism around the world, and Jewish support for the Democratic Party. The interview, which appeared in Wednesday”s Mishpacha magazine, continued along
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Middle East, USAThe 9,000-square-foot home of the late industry titan Edgar Bronfman Sr. is up for sale in the tony town of Westport, Connecticut, home to celebrities such as Michael Bolton, Harvey Weinstein and Joanne Woodward. Sotheby’s International Realty listed the property for $7,995,000, or just over $10 million Canadian, on Tuesday. The 13-acre estate is currently
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Travel and Food, USANEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Thursday welcomed a statement by Donald Trump that he “totally disavows” conspiratorial anti-Semitic remarks made by David Duke suggesting that “Jewish supremacists” were attempting to undermine his bid for the White House. In a statement shared with various media outlets Thursday, Trump added: “Anti-Semitism has no place
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