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San Diegan Sol Lizerbram to head national JNF

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — To considerable applause, Russell Robinson, the chief executive officer of the Jewish National Fund, announced Thursday, May 11, that the next national president of JNF will be San Diegan Dr. Sol Lizerbram. Lizerbram, active with his wife Lauren for 35 years in JNF, will begin his two-year term […]

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Middle East, USA

No talk of election interference at meetings, Russian foreign minister says

WASHINGTON — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says U.S. allegations of Kremlin interference in last year’s presidential campaign did not come up during his meetings Wednesday at the White House and the State Department. Lavrov said the talks focused instead on building “businesslike relations” between Moscow and Washington after years of tension. Lavrov’s visit to

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International, USA

Fox sees earnings rise as fallout from sexual harassment scandal continues

LOS ANGELES — The mounting sexual harassment claims at Fox News that led to the dismissal of Bill O’Reilly and an exodus of advertisers has dominated headlines and cast a shadow over parent company 21st Century Fox in recent weeks. But the controversy, which erupted last summer, so far has done little to dampen the

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Andres Oppenheimer: Trump’s Mexico bashing helps leftist candidate

The race for Mexico’s 2018 presidential elections has drawn zero interest in the United States so far, but it should be in the headlines. Thanks to President Trump’s fake claims about Mexico, the country may soon elect its first populist leftist president in recent memory. The latest polls show that Trump’s Mexico bashing has had

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International, USA

Meet the female chess grandmaster who checked male privilege

Since shattering the (checkered) glass ceiling, Hungarian-Jewish champ Susan Polgar has engaged in friendly diplomacy and coached teams to seven consecutive titles By Rich Tenorio As a professional chess player, Susan Polgar has broken gender barriers, set records and even engaged in some post-Cold War bridge-building. Now she’s finding success mentoring the next generation. Polgar,

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Sports & Competitions, USA

USA-Russia: Another Cold War?

US Defense Secretary James Mattis’ first official visit to Eastern Europe smacks somewhat of the cold war-era. The US are considering deploying a missile battery system in the region ahead of NATO exercises this summer. Mattis has called Russian missile deployment in the Baltic region ‘destabilising’ and U.S. allies are jittery about Russian and Belarussian

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International, USA

Bethune students turn their backs on DeVos during her commencement speech

The content of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ commencement speech at Bethune-Cookman University, a historically black college, was pretty standard: Listen to people who disagree with you, serve your country and give back. But the reception was raucous. Students booed and turned their back while President Donald Trump’s education chief spoke. The speech came after

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Republicans: No outside investigation into Russian meddling needed

WASHINGTON — Key Republicans on Wednesday flatly rejected growing calls for an independent investigator or a special panel to probe possible ties between Russia and President Donald Trump’s campaign in the wake of Trump’s abrupt firing of FBI Director James Comey. While Democrats escalated their investigative demands — and threatened to stall Senate business as

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USA

Calls grow for an independent special prosecutor to investigate Trump campaign ties to Russia

WASHINGTON — Pressure mounted Wednesday for the Justice Department to name an independent special prosecutor to look into whether anyone close to President Donald Trump worked with Russia to sway the election in Trump’s favor. A day after Trump abruptly fired FBI Director James Comey, top Senate Democrats doubled down on their demand for an

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USA

Tom Price commends West Virginia officers who arrested journalist asking questions

CONCORD, N.H. – Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price on Wednesday commended police in West Virginia for “doing what they thought was appropriate” in arresting a journalist who shouted questions at him, but added that it wasn’t his call to say whether they took the proper measures. Price said the reporter confronted him

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USA

Hitler’s Reich and Trump’s America

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — In a review in a recent issue of The New York Review of Books of Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939 by Volker Ullrich – the book has recently appeared in English – the distinguished Holocaust historian Christopher Browning writes: “There are sufficient areas of similarity in some regards to make the book

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History, Middle East, USA