USA

Donald Trump Was Served Shark Fin Soup in Vietnam

President Donald Trump was treated to a state dinner in Vietnam prominently featuring fish dishes, including a seafood soup containing shark fin—an expensive local delicacy responsible for driving sharks to extinction. The Vietnamese seafood soup, the fifth dish served in the seven-course menu on Saturday, contained another controversial ingredient. Demand for fish maw, also known

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International, USA

Adelson won’t back Bannon’s attempts to oust GOP incumbents

By Eric Cortellessa WASHINGTON — The billionaire casino magnate and GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson said on Monday that he will not support Steve Bannon’s attempts to buck Republican leadership and try to unseat the party’s incumbents from Congress in 2018. “The Adelsons will not be supporting Steve Bannon’s efforts,” Andy Abboud, a family spokesman, told

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USA

Israel at center of free speech debate at two NJ campuses

Rutgers Hillel calls Syrian apologist on faculty a ‘national embarrassment’ Mazen Adi, adjunct professor at Rutgers, served in Syrian Pres. Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Suddenly, two New Jersey college campuses have become battlegrounds for two very different fights facing Jewish students when it comes to the fraught issue of Israel. One battle, at Princeton, is being

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Rivlin meets LA Mayor

President Reuven Rivlin met on Monday with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. During the meeting, the two discussed the strong ties between Israel and the United States and the courageous connection between cities in Israel and Los Angeles. The president invited the mayor to visit Israel in order to better get to know Israeli society.

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Middle East, USA

Steve Bannon And The Alt-Right Want Jews To Join Them

Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon is urging American Jews to join his war against the Republican establishment — and he’s bringing along a host of white supremacists and alt-right conspiracy theorists with him. “We’re leading an insurgency movement against the Republican establishment,” Bannon told the crowd at the Zionist Organization of America’s annual

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USA

Jewish Federations demand Israel reverse moves on Western Wall, conversion

By TOI staff LOS ANGELES — The Jewish Federations of North America called on Israel to reverse its “divisive and damaging” steps to freeze an agreement on egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall and its support of a bill that would grant a monopoly to Orthodox authorities in Israel over conversions to Judaism. The JFNA’s

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International, Middle East, USA

Gal Gadot’s reported ultimatum to Warner Bros. over Brett Ratner’s involvement in ‘Wonder Woman 2’ is likely moot

Warner Bros. finds itself in an awkward situation with Gal Gadot, the star of its most important movie of the year, “Justice League,” which debuts Friday. At the center of the issue is the studio’s relationship with embattled filmmaker Brett Ratner, who has been accused by several women of a range of sexual misconduct. A

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

President Trump has reportedly intervened in the shoplifting case against one of LaVar Ball’s sons

President Trump has reportedly asked China President Xi Jinping to help resolve the shoplifting case against three UCLA men’s basketball players, according to the Washington Post. The three players — LiAngelo Ball, Jalen Hill and Cody Riley — were arrested last week while on a trip in China for allegedly stealing sunglasses from a Louis

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International, Sports & Competitions, USA

Why most Democrats in Congress are no longer demanding that Sessions step down

WASHINGTON — House Democrats will have an excellent opportunity to question Attorney General Jeff Sessions — again — about the Donald Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia when he appears Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee. Prominent on their list of queries: Why did Sessions never previously mention he had been in a March 2016 meeting

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USA

Trump Praises Philippines’ Duterte, Human Rights Take Backseat

U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly praised Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, virtually ignoring discussion of Duterte’s human rights record in carrying out thousands of extrajudicial killings in his war against drug suspects. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said human rights “briefly came up in the context of the Philippines’ fight against illegal drugs”

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International, USA

Rivlin stresses Diaspora and Israeli Jews are ‘one people’

LOS ANGELES (Press Release)–Israeli Pres. Reuven Rivlin urged cooperation and mutual understanding in a speech Monday night to the Jewish Federations of North America’s General Assembly in Los Angeles. Rivlin addressed major issues confronting Jews and Israel, including prayer at Jerusalem’s Western Wall, regional security in the Middle East, and divisions in Israeli society. Rivlin took on

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Middle East, USA