By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Since it’s the Holiday season, I’m willing to give President Trump a second chance to honor the Navajo Code Talkers rather than offend them by calling Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas,” but when I imagine what he’d probably say, I fear he’d bungle it again. * President Trump: “Though I make a point
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — I have never met anyone who really gives a genuine damn about Palestinians unless it is linked with an umbilical cord to hatred of Israel. The two are so welded together that you have to think what came first – the Palestinian chicken or the Israeli egg. Those who
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Middle East, USANew York City’s progressive university The New School is under fire for agreeing to host a panel on anti-Semitism featuring Palestinian-American activist and staunch Israel critic Linda Sarsour, the latest example of the left’s growing rift over Israel. The Tuesday forum, called “Antisemitism and the Struggle for Justice,” features Ms. Sarsour and two representatives of
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Stuart Winer A lecturer at the University of California Berkeley has apologized for sharing images on social media that the college deemed anti-Semitic and beyond acceptable criticism of Israel. The college condemned lecturer Hatem Bazian of the Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies department after he retweeted two images, The Jewish News of California
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA[twittervideo:2035426] The Palestinian Authority (PA) envoy to the UK admitted recently that he had in the past hit an Israeli over falafel. The envoy, Manuel Hassassian, said the incident occurred during his student days in Ohio. At the time, he recalled, he assaulted an Israeli student who manned a booth in which falafel and hummus
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Middle East, USA[youtube:2035460] The Conservative Movement in the United States released a video accusing Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of lying about the frozen Western Wall deal. In the video, the Conservative Movement played clips from Prime Minister Netanyahu’s address to the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America earlier this month. During his address,
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Middle East, USAJACKSON-Some Orthodox Jewish residents are calling for the resignation of Jackson Township Councilman Robert Nixon after documents released by the township displayed Nixon’s intent to curb Orthodox Jewish population growth here. Jackson Township has become a town divided since an upswing in Orthodox Jewish residents started approximately two years ago. While few in town would
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USADiaspora Affairs Minister Naftali Bennett addressed Israel’s increasingly tenuous relationship with world Jewry in his Jewish Homer faction meeting on Monday and vowed to drastically increase funding for a program that aims to strengthen Jewish identity on American college campuses. Bennett’s comments came in the wake of a media storm that erupted after deputy Foreign
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Middle East, USAMagazine publisher and broadcast company Meredith Corp. said it will acquire Time Inc. in a deal valued at $2.8 billion, a further sign of the steep challenges facing the print magazine industry. The Des Moines-based company said it agreed to pay $18.50 a share for New York-based Time Inc., the publishing company that owns the
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USAJon Hendricks, the pioneering jazz singer and lyricist with the vocal ensemble Lambert, Hendricks & Ross who helped create an inventive jazz vocal technique called ‘vocalese,’ has died. Hendricks died Wednesday in New York City, his daughter, Aria Hendricks, said. He was 96. When Hendricks arrived on the jazz scene in the ’50s, his mastery
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorials, USASenator John McCain has fired another volley in his war of words with President Donald Trump, claiming that his fellow Republican lacks “principles and beliefs” and simply “takes advantage of situations.” McCain has not hidden his distaste for Trump since the businessman launched his campaign for the White House, and that has led to regular,
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USAMelania Christmas 2 First lady Melania Trump unveiled the White House Christmas decorations to the world in a new video released on Monday. The video, posted to the first lady’s Facebook page, shows Mrs. Trump surveying the White House’s glittering decorations, writing Christmas cards, talking with the pastry chefs about holiday cookies and the gingerbread
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USADespite President Donald Trump’s vows to build a wall with Mexico and deport huge numbers of Latin American immigrants, there is a little-known phenomenon that could have a positive impact on hemispheric relations in the long term: Growing numbers of U.S. students are choosing Latin American countries for their study-abroad programs. While most U.S. students
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International, USAPresident Trump on Monday referred to Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts as “Pocahontas” at an event honoring native American “code talkers” who fought in World War II. “You were here long before any of us were here,” Mr. Trump told the group. “Although we have a representative in Congress who they say was here
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