American Jewish groups are up in arms over an official street marker in Manhattan honoring a Nazi collaborator responsible for the deportation of thousands of Jews to German concentration camps. The City of New York recently decided to honor historical figures welcomed in the city since 1886 with ticker-tape parades, transforming 13 blocks of Manhattan”s […]
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International, USAWASHINGTON — The shock firing of FBI Director James Comey Tuesday casts a shadow over the future of congressional investigations into Russia’s attempts to interfere in the 2016 election on behalf of President Donald Trump. Comey, who has testified before the Senate and House intelligence committees on several occasions as well as before other committees
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USALast week, an emotional Jimmy Kimmel took the stage on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and opened up about the complications faced by his newborn son. Skipping the jokes, Kimmel’s tearful 15-minute monologue turned into a plea to politicians in Washington to protect and strengthen health care coverage for all Americans. “If your baby is going
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAMIAMI — Haitian President Jovenel Moise will personally ask President Donald Trump not to end a humanitarian program that has protected tens of thousands of Haitians from deportation. “He hopes that it will be prolonged,” Wilson Laleau, Haiti’s former finance minister and Moise’s chief of staff, told The Miami Herald Tuesday. “He will officially ask
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International, USAKANSAS CITY, Mo. — In yet another horror story about the state of commercial aviation, a nurse from Kansas City says she was forced to pee into a cup in her seat because she was not allowed to use the plane’s lavatory. Nicole Harper posted her account early Saturday on Facebook after, she says, she
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Travel and Food, USARIVER FALLS, Mass. — A judge Tuesday vacated Aaron Hernandez’s conviction for the 2013 murder of Odin Lloyd because the former New England Patriots star from died while his appeal was pending. It is unclear if the decision will have implications for the pending civil lawsuit against Hernandez’s estate filed by Lloyd’s mother. Her lawyer
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Sports & Competitions, USAFBI Director James Comey has been fired and like nearly everything in U.S. politics in recent years, it might be because of Hillary Clinton’s emails. Authorities told the Washington Post and ProPublica that Comey misspoke last week when he told the Senate Judiciary Committee that Human Abedin, Clinton’s right-hand woman, regularly forwarded “hundreds and thousands”
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USAJust hours after the FBI sent a letter Tuesday to the Senate Judiciary Committee clarifying his testimony in relation to the Hillary Clinton email scandal, FBI Director James Comey was fired. “Today, President Donald J. Trump informed FBI Director James Comey that he has been terminated and removed from office,” White House Press Secretary Sean
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USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has fired FBI Director James B. Comey, who has been criticized by Democrats and Republicans since the presidential election. “The president has accepted the recommendation of the attorney general and the deputy attorney general regarding the dismissal of the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” press secretary Sean Spicer
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USAActress urges US president’s daughter to ‘tell your dad about real people who are suffering’ By Gabe Friedman JTA – Tell us how you really feel, Debra Messing. Accepting an award from GLAAD, an LGBT advocacy group, on Saturday night, the Jewish actress implored Ivanka Trump to stand up to her father, US President Donald
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USASEATTLE — Seattle Mayor Ed Murray ended his campaign for re-election Tuesday — bowing out of a race that weeks ago he had been expected to win easily, shutting the door on a second term in Seattle’s highest office and aborting a political career that’s spanned decades. Murray’s decision comes a month after he was
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USAIllegal immigration across the southwest border dropped yet again in April, with the number of illegal immigrant children fallen below 1,000 for the first time in recent records, Homeland Security announced Tuesday. The numbers are part of a stunning drop since the beginning of the Trump administration. Border Patrol apprehensions alone are down a shocking
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By Pamela Pollack-Fremd SPOKANE, Washington — Immigration has never been easy–moving to a new country, learning a new language, and adapting to new cultural norms can be the most difficult thing a person ever does. Immigrating is not easy today nor has it been easy in the past. About the Dybbuks, a collection of short stories
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish History, USABy Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — Since he wrote it in 1984, Larry Shue’s play The Foreigner has been produced and revived by amateurs, students, and professional companies almost continually. It’s a two-act, two-and-a-half-hour absurdist comedy that taxes the abilities of the lead actor, who has to speak in gibberish the entire time. Fortunately, Mike Niedzwiecki is up
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