A 19-year old man with dual US-Israeli citizenship was arrested for allegedly making a series of threats to Jewish institutions in the US and Europe. The suspect has a long record of criminal behavior, authorities in Israel said Thursday. The man, whose identity has not yet been released for publication, was suspected by police of […]
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Middle East, USAPolice in Queens, New York, are hunting for a woman who insulted and punched a Muslim woman on the street earlier this month. The woman, according to police, approached a 26-year-old woman and told her “you stink, you fucking Muslim,” before punching her in the side of her neck, according to New York’s Pix11 and
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USAPresident Trump didn’t give an inch on his claims about wiretapping and voter fraud in an interview published Thursday, and told the journalist, “I can’t be doing so badly, because I’m president and you’re not.” In the interview with Time magazine, Mr. Trump defended his tweets about former President Obama wiretapping his campaign headquarters, and
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USATheo Epstein was tabbed World’s Greatest Leader by Fortune magazine, which published its annual list on Thursday morning. The Chicago Cubs president of baseball operations found himself atop a list that included Alibaba founder Jack Ma (No. 2), Pope Francis (No. 3), Melinda Gates (No. 4) and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (No. 5). LeBron James
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Sports & Competitions, USAUri Ariel, of the Jewish Home party, warns that halting building outside of main blocs would ‘not leave us any choice’ By Sue Surkes Minister of Agriculture Uri Ariel attends the 14th annual Jerusalem Conference of the ‘Besheva’ group, on February 12, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) Jewish Home Minister Uri Ariel said on Thursday he would
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama marked the anniversary of the Affordable Care Act with a robust defense of the law Republicans sought to begin repealing Thursday. In a lengthy written statement, Obama made no explicit mention of the action pending in the House. But he clearly contrasted the grueling process that ended with his
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USASenate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Thursday that Democrats will attempt to filibuster Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination, saying he would tilt the Supreme Court too far away from what Democrats want to see. “After careful deliberation I have concluded that I cannot support Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court,” Mr. Schumer said,
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USASara Renee Miller Growing up in an evangelical home while toddling between three locations (Maui, Missouri, Maine), there was a surprising lack of ethnic diversity and outside information available. By this, what I really mean is that I didn’t meet my first Jewish person until just two years before grad school at Hebrew University, nor
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International, Middle East, USAPresident Donald Trump”s envoy Jason Greenblatt asked Israel to cease building in communities in Judea and Samaria located outside of the so-called “settlement blocs”, an Israeli source privy to Greenblatt”s talks with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told Haaretz on Wednesday. According to the source, during the talks, which took place in Israel last week, Greenblatt
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Middle East, USAThe Coalition for Jewish Values, an Orthodox Jewish advocacy group, today harshly condemned “specious accusations of anti-Semitism” coming from sectors of the Jewish community, directed at US government officials and the Trump Administration as a whole, dismissing these allegations as “unfounded, damaging and embarrassing.” CJV Senior Rabbinic Fellow Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer remarked, “these recriminations are
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USAMinister of Public Security Gilad Erdan (Likud) commented on the arrest by Israeli Police of a suspect believed to have been involved in the recent wave of threats against Jewish centers and other institutions: “I congratulate the Israeli Police on leading a complex international investigation, together with law enforcement agencies from around the world, which
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International, Middle East, USAThis story updates previous one Tel Aviv (dpa) – An Israeli teenager was arrested Thursday as part of a internationally coordinated investigation into a wave of bomb threats against US Jewish centres, according to Israeli police. Israeli authorities and foreign law enforcement, including the FBI, worked together over the last few months to track down
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International, Middle East, USAWashington (dpa) – Twitter users on Wednesday denounced Donald Trump Jr, the US president’s eldest son, after he criticized London mayor Sadiq Khan in the wake of a terrorist attack in the British capital which left three civilians and one police officer dead. “You have to be kidding me?!: Terror attacks are part of living
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International, USACHICAGO — A second teacher has been disciplined at Eisenhower High School in suburban Chicago over a student’s refusal to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Vince Ziebarth, who has worked in District 218 since 2009, and was a full-time driver’s education teacher at the Blue Island, Ill., school since January 2014, said he was
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