A museum exhibit opening Sunday recreates the historic Nazi war crimes trial of Adolf Eichmann, a former SS lieutenant-colonel convicted and executed for helping orchestrate the Holocaust. New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan will let visitors re-live the 1961 court proceedings starting Sunday when an exhibit opens containing the bulletproof booth Eichmann sat […]
LOS ANGELES—At least two people were arrested Saturday afternoon during dueling rallies staged in Hollywood by supporters and detractors of President Donald Trump. The arrests stemmed from a scuffle among competing demonstrators outside the busy Hollywood and Highland shopping complex. An anti-Trump protester who received a minor laceration during the skirmish was given medical aid
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USAThe Whittier, Calif., fire burning in Los Padres National Forest in Santa Barbara County grew by about 4,000 acres overnight to more than 17,000 acres, which officials attributed Saturday in part to a combination of low humidity, high temperatures, steep terrain and brush fueling the fire on its southern flank. After reporting Friday that the
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USAWASHINGTON — Trump administration lawyers voicing frustration with a federal judge in Hawaii have asked the Supreme Court to intervene again and to allow the government to strictly enforce its temporary foreign travel ban. The acting U.S. solicitor general said the justices should issue a ruling to clarify the travel ban or, at minimum, block
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International, USAVito “Babe” Parilli, a member of the Patriots’ Hall of Fame and one of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of the American Football League, has died. He was 87. “The New England Patriots are deeply saddened to learn of the loss of former Boston Patriots quarterback Vito ‘Babe’ Parilli, who passed away,” the team
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Editor’s Note: Editor Donald H. Harrison and his grandson Shor recently completed a 2,000 mile journey through California and Nevada, collecting and photographing Jewish stories along the way. This article is the third in a series generated during that trip. Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photos by Shor M. Masori SACRAMENTO — Congregation B’nai Israel,
United States President Donald Trump’s two-day trip to Paris to meet with newly-elected French President Emmanuel Macron culminated Friday with a Bastille Day parade attended by both world leaders and their wives. The event boasted no shortage of spectacles — including a French military performance of hits from electronic duo Daft Punk — but discourse
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International, USAOn Thursday night, former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton sat down together at a forum in Dallas to discuss a number of topics, but the name of current President Donald Trump didn’t appear once in their hour-long discussion. The forum was in honor of the graduating class of the Presidential Leadership Scholars program
Report by Channel 10 news could undermine PM’s claim he did not intend to make a deal with the Yedioth Ahronoth publisher By Times of Israel staff US billionaire businessman Sheldon Adelson with Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, August 12, 2007. (Flash90) In his recent testimony to Israeli police, US billionaire Sheldon Adelson recounted a conversation
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Middle East, USACairo (dpa) – An Egyptian accused of killing two German tourists in a knife attack the day before at the resort town of Hurghada has no criminal record, private newspaper al-Masry al-Youm reported on Saturday. The alleged assailant, identified as Abdel-Rahman Shaaban, is a 27-year-old student from the Nile Delta province of Kafr al-Sheikh, the
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International, USAIt all started with a sticky note. When the Washington Post published an article back in May about President Donald Trump’s body guard, they failed to notice that one of the photos included a sticky note with the personal phone number of the US secretary of defense. Teddy Fischer, a student at Mercer Island High
Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to be awarded the prestigious Fields Medal for mathematics, has died in the U.S. The 40-year-old reportedly had breast cancer that spread to her bones. “A light was turned off today. It breaks my heart… gone far too soon,” her friend, NASA scientist Firouz Naderi, posted on Instagram. The Fields
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Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAOn Friday, the United States Marines released the names of the 15 Marines and one Navy corpsman who were tragically killed in this week’s military plane crash. In a procession on Friday, 16 white hearses carried the fallen Maj. Caine M. Goyette, Capt. Sean E. Elliott, Gunnery Sgt. Mark A. Hopkins, Gunnery Sgt. Brendan C.
Mississippi authorities have arrested and charged three teenagers for kidnapping and sexual assault after they broadcast their attack on a 23-year-old woman on Facebook Live on Tuesday night. Haleigh Alexis Hudson, 19, Ezzie Johnson, 17, and Kadari Fabien Booker, 17, are accused of participating in a 15-minute live stream that portrayed a pants-less man standing