USA

Mel Gibson quietlly supporting Holocaust survivors

Mel Gibson, the Catholic actor/director who in the past struggled with an anti-Jewish image, has been discreetly supporting an organization that helps Holocaust survivors. Comedy director Zane Buzby, founder of the Survivor Mitzvah Project, recently told Extra that her organization helps “bring emergency aid to Holocaust survivors in Eastern Europe who are in desperate need […]

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Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

‘Are New York taxpayers funding rabid anti-Semite’s appearance?’

New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D – Brooklyn) reacted angrily to the news that the Brooklyn Public Library would host a lecture by anti-Israel activist and Hezbollah supporter Norman Finkelstein. Finkelstein’s “No Free Speech for Fascists” lecture series at the library may be funded by the municipality. “It”s no secret that Norman Finkelstein is a

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USA

Holocaust denial, anti-Semitism at University of Illinois

Just days after posters accusing Jews of benefiting from “Jewish Privilege” were discovered on the University of Illinois at Chicago campus, Jewish students say yet another wave of anti-Semitic materials has been found on school grounds. Last week, posters accusing Jews of economically dominating the United States were found plastered around campus. “ENDING WHITE PRIVILEGE…

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Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

In a first, former CIA captive appeals Guantanamo trial to Supreme Court

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Lawyers for the man accused of orchestrating the USS Cole bombing have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in the military tribunal at Guantanamo using accounts of the captive’s CIA torture drawn from declassified documents and an interrogator’s recent memoirs. The petition with hundreds of pages of supporting

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International, Middle East, USA

Vahe Gregorian: Former KU and Chicago Bears great Gale Sayers is battling dementia

WAKARUSA, Ind. — More than 50 years after Gale Sayers, the “Kansas Comet,” inspired awe as a Jayhawk, he was honored in January in Topeka, Kan., by the Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas as one of its Kansans of the Year. So this was overdue but due, nonetheless, which is why former Kansas Sen.

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Sports & Competitions, USA

Diapora Museum receives huge donation

The San Francisco-based Koret Foundation has granted the Diaspora Museum 10 million dollars, the largest donation the museum has received from an American foundation in its 40-year history. The donation will serve to expand the International School for Jewish Nation studies at the museum, to be named after the foundation. The expansion of the school

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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Nancy Pelosi, House minority leader: Trump ‘doesn’t know or doesn’t care’ what his health bill does

President Trump “either doesn’t know or doesn’t care” what his health care bill will do to his most ardent supporters, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Sunday. “He really doesn’t know what he’s talking about. It’s most unfortunate,” she told CBS’s “Face the Nation.” Mrs. Pelosi, California Democrat, said the Republican bill pushed by House

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

German defence minister slams Trump statement on NATO as incorrect

Berlin (dpa) – Germany’s defence minister on Sunday criticized as “incorrect” US President Donald Trump’s assertion that Berlin owes “vast sums of money” to NATO and Washington. Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen said that “there is no debt account at NATO.” She said Germany aimed to reach the benchmark 2 per cent of gross

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International, USA

UN chief against Trump’s cuts

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday spoke out against U.S. President Donald Trump”s plan to cut some U.S. funding for the world body. “Abrupt funding cuts can force the adoption of ad hoc measures that will undermine the impact of longer-term reform efforts,” Guterres”s spokesman Stephane Dujarric warned, according to Reuters. “The Secretary-General fully subscribes

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International, USA