By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — The horror felt in Israel over a group calling themselves Jewish Voice for Peace hosting a convicted Palestinian terrorist guilty of murdering Jews is palpable. No words can adequately express the shock in the Jewish state to learn that an American Jewish group went out of their way to […]
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Barry Shaw, USALOS ANGELES (Press Release) –The Simon Wiesenthal Center has denounced Swedish authorities for again failing to protect its Jewish citizens, this time in the northern town of Umea (pictured). The Jewish community association has announced it is closing following a series of Neo-Nazi threats, which included swastikas with messages like, “we know where you live.”
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International, USASANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release) – Anti-Semitism on campus increased 40% and genocidal expression doubled in 2016, according to AMCHA Initiative’s annual study, released Tuesday, that examines anti-Semitism at more than 100 public and private colleges and universities with the largest Jewish undergraduate populations. Main findings of the study include: 40% Spike: Anti-Semitism on campuses most popular for
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 49 years ago today, April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tenn. He was standing on the balcony just outside Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel. It was 6:01 PM and he had just leaned over the railing and was speaking to a gospel
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USAGLENDALE, Ariz. — The day before the NCAA championship game, North Carolina coach Roy Williams wasn’t buying the David-versus-Goliath theme being spun about the Tar Heels’ meeting with Gonzaga. “That may be the way it’s perceived,” Williams said Sunday. “But when you start watching them, it’s not that much difference (between the teams). I’m not
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Sports & Competitions, USAThe NHL announced Monday that it will not participate in the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, which are being held in PyeongChang, South Korea. The NHL had sent players to the past five Winter Olympics starting with the Nagano Games in 1998. The league is the only major professional sport to interrupt its schedule for the
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International, Sports & Competitions, USATom Price doesn’t appear to have suffered a financial hit when he fulfilled his pledge to sell off some assets as the new head of the Department of Health and Human Services. On one transaction alone, Price made a profit of more than $150,000 on shares he held in a tiny Australian biotech company, according
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USASEATTLE — On Monday, Kevin Johnson became the CEO of Starbucks — the first time in nine years Howard Schultz has not been at the helm of the coffee empire he began building 30 years ago. Tall and polished, with a ready smile and a hearty handshake, Johnson brings to the role a deep knowledge
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USAThe father of the Israeli teenager accused of sending the bulk of the bomb threats to Jewish institutions in the US and around the world apologized to US Jewry on Israeli television Monday night. More than 120 bomb threats had been sent to Jewish institutions across the US since January. The father of the suspect,
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Middle East, USAMelania Trump has had her photo taken hundreds of time as a model and the wife of a prominent real-estate magnate. Now the White House has released the most important picture ever of President Donald Trump’s wife—her first portrait as first lady of the United States. The photograph shows Melania Trump in an all black
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USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump held private meetings Monday with one of the United States’ most important Arab allies, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, kicking off a week of high-stakes international diplomacy. El-Sissi arrived at the White House just before noon EDT. Trump emerged from the West Wing to greet the Egyptian leader — the first
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — On the eve of his inauguration, President Donald Trump turned to his daughter Ivanka and joked that he “sort of stole” her husband, Jared Kushner. With a trip to Iraq, announced on Monday following his arrival in Baghdad, it became clear that Kushner’s role in the Trump administration has only grown bigger since
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, won approval Monday on a party-line vote from the Senate Judiciary Committee, setting the stage for a filibuster showdown on the Senate floor later this week. At the same meeting, Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware announced he would provide the crucial 41st vote
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USAFox News was hit with another sexual harassment claim Monday, as on-air contributor Julie Roginsky filed a lawsuit against the network’s former chief executive Roger Ailes and its current co-president Bill Shine. The suit filed Monday in New York State Supreme Court is the latest legal salvo in what has become a spiraling crisis for