By Shoshanna Solomon Move over, Silicon Valley and New York. Florida Gov. Rick Scott is looking to put his state “on the map for innovation.” Scott is visiting Israel this week at the head of an almost 70-strong delegation including businessmen and university heads hoping to whip up the appetite of Israeli startups to set […]
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Middle East, USAJenny Neuman On Sunday December 3, seven months after my Birthright trip, I marched with hundreds of Jewish students and young Jews to the offices of the Birthright Israel Foundation in New York City, as part of Jewish Voice for Peace’s #ReturntheBirthright campaign. I watched my peers drop fake ‘Adelson Airlines’ tickets into a giant
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Middle East, USAA Reflection by David Gregory From American Jewish World Service Every winter, as the days shorten and darken, I look forward to Chanukah. The sight of the candles over eight nights helps us create those sacred moments that daily life so often crowds out. The flicker of the flame evokes history, identity, shared experience. I
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Jewish Religion, USAJoy Reid MSNBC’s Joy Reid apologized after a Twitter user discovered a very dark part of her past. Reid, who usually puts others in the hot seat, found herself on the receiving end of criticism for a number of insensitive comments she made on her personal blog regarding former Florida Governor and Current Florida Representative
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAAnother big name in fashion photography, Bruce Weber, has been accused of sexually harassment involving a male model, according to a suit filed in New York. The 71-year-old Weber, who worked for Vogue and helped forge the image of such brands as Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren and Abercrombie & Fitch, is alleged to have molested
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USANew York’s Metropolitan Opera said Sunday it was suspending its famed longtime music director James Levine after multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. The premier US opera house said Levine would no longer appear at the Met this season and that it had hired a former US prosecutor to investigate the accusations. “Based on these new
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAA 6-year-old child with Down syndrome was reported for “terrorism” by a substitute teacher in Pearland, Texas, Thursday. According to a report by KRIV, a Fox affiliated television station, Mohammed Suleiman attended C.J. Harris Elementary School in Pearland. In the report, Mohammed’s father, Maher Suleiman said, “Mohammad was born with Down Syndrome chromosome 21.” He
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USAPresident Donald Trump reportedly made Hope Hicks, now his communications director, steam his pants while he was still wearing them and scolded her when she forgot the wrinkle-erasing device. Hicks, who worked as his press secretary at the time, was in charge of making sure Trump’s pants and jacket were sharp when they flew on
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, USAA senior Turkish government official on Monday warned of a “major catastrophe” if the United States recognises Jerusalem as Israel’s capital despite a flood of warnings from the Arab world. “If the (current) status of Jerusalem is changed and another step is taken … that would be a major catastrophe,” Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag
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Middle East, USARep. Ron DeSantis said Monday that Congress is prepared to hold members of the FBI and Justice Department in contempt for not complying with requests related to the Trump-Russia investigation. “Devin Nunes has been trying to get this information from DOJ and the FBI for months and they’ve stonewalled every step of the way,” Mr.
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USAPresident Donald Trump took his tacit support of Republican Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore to a full-fledged endorsement Monday with a series of tweets and a phone call to the embattled candidate. To the former judge, who has been hit with a string of allegations that he preyed on and sexually assaulted minors when
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USABilly Bush is back. He might not have a media job (yet?), but he stepped up Sunday with an essay confirming that no matter what the president might say now, it was indeed Donald Trump speaking on the “Access Hollywood” tape that leaked more than a year ago. “Of course he said it. And we
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USASheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, is one of the world’s most powerful women, but even she has experienced sexual harassment. In a Facebook post Sunday, Sandberg wrote that she’s never been sexually harassed or assaulted by anyone she’s worked for, but she has dealt with “unwanted sexual advances” on the job. “A hand on
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USAFRANKFORT, Ky. — The communications director for the Kentucky House Republican caucus sued the Legislative Research Commission on Monday, alleging that she is being unfairly punished for shedding light on sexual harassment claims by a female colleague who was in an “inappropriate sexual relationship” with then-House Speaker Jeff Hoover of Jamestown. In her whistle-blower lawsuit,