Juan Thompson, the former journalist whom authorities believe is behind several of the recent bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers (JCCs) and other Jewish sites, has pleaded not guilty. On March 3, police in Missouri arrested Thompson, 32, for allegedly making the threats as a way of harassing an ex-girlfriend. He allegedly made some of […]
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USANew York will became the first state in the nation to guarantee free tuition for the middle class at public four-year college Sunday. The budget put aside $163 million dollars to pay for tuition at the state’s public universities for all families earning less than $125,000 a year. “New York is well-positioned to benefit from
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USASAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — A teacher and an 8-year-old boy were shot and killed Monday morning at an elementary school in San Bernardino after the teacher’s husband opened fire inside a special needs classroom before turning the gun on himself, police said. Cedric Anderson, 53, of Riverside, entered a classroom at North Park Elementary School
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USAThe Trump administration will continue the tradition set by President Barack Obama of hosting a Seder at the White House on Monday night, the Jewish Insider website reported. A White House staffer told the website the Seder will be an opportunity for observant White House staff who cannot be with their families to celebrate the
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Jewish Religion, USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has signed off on the departure of a top White House national security official, part of a slow-rolling shakeup that consolidates the influence of Trump’s new national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, said a White House official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss her departure. K.T. McFarland, the
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Dylann Roof, a white supremacist from the Columbia area, pleaded guilty on Monday to nine murder charges in state court for the slayings of nine victims at an African-American church in Charleston. Under the plea agreement, he was sentenced to nine sentences of life in prison, to be spent in a federal
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USAWASHINGTON — The swearing-in of Justice Neil M. Gorsuch on Monday restores the Supreme Court to full strength for the first time in nearly 14 months and sets the stage for further conservative victories that could start accumulating quickly. A Second Amendment challenge out of California, a religious liberty test from Missouri and a voter
Rachel Miller is grating horseradish in preparation for her Seder — the Passover meal — as Mizgin, her husband Adris, and their three children — ages 12, 9 and 5 — watch her work. The family are refugees from Syria and they’re spending the year living with Rachel and her husband in a Boston suburb.
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Middle East, USABOSTON (Press Release) – The American Jewish Committee-New England was dismayed to learn that the night before the Passover holiday, the Tufts Community Union Senate (Tufts Senate) approved a resolution calling for divestment from four companies doing business with Israel. The resolution was proposed only this past Thursday and brought to a vote at the
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USASen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said Sunday that the Trump’s administration is “partially to blame” for Syria’s chemical attack last week, which killed about 80 civilians and was apparently orchestrated by President Bashar al-Assad. “I think it probably was partially to blame,” McCain said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday. “And Secretary [of State Rex] Tillerson
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Middle East, USASpanish police have arrested a Russian hacker accused of interfering in the 2016 presidential election at the request of U.S. authorities. Pyotr Levashov was arrested in Barcelona on 7 April on a U.S. computer crimes warrant, according to a spokeswoman for Spain’s National Court who wished to remain anonymous, the Associated Press reported. Levashov’s wife,
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International, USALOS ANGELES — In a long-anticipated report released Monday, Wells Fargo & Co. pinned the blame for its unauthorized-accounts scandal on weak corporate oversight, an unwatchful former CEO and the executive who led the bank’s community banking division. The San Francisco bank also said it would take back more than $47 million in pay from
Marvel artist Ardian Syaf will face “disciplinary action” after it was revealed over the weekend that he promoted an anti-Christian and anti-Semitic verse from the Koran in one of its books. Superhero fans know the X-Men as a team of “mutants” that fights against intolerance. The newest issue of “X-Men Gold,” however, included a reference
Honoring a campaign pledge to place conservative justices on the Supreme Court, President Trump called on new Justice Neil Gorsuch Monday to defend the Constitution instead of engaging in judicial activism. At a sunny swearing-in ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, Mr. Trump praised Justice Gorsuch as a conservative in the mold of the
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