Tel Aviv – Political circles in Israel are expecting Washington to take action on the resumption of negotiations on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Experts expect the Donald Trump administration to call for a regional peace conference which will launch new talks or lead to a summit bringing together the US president, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and […]
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Middle East, USACommentators on social media wondered why White House special envoy Jason Greenblat did not wear a kippah (a Jewish skullcap) during his meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Sunday. Orthodox Jewish men traditionally wear kippot. Greenblat studied at the Har Etzion yeshiva and attended Yeshiva University. He is a successful and respected lawyer and lives
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USABerlin (dpa) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel plans to warn Donald Trump about the dangers of protectionism and isolation under his “America First” trade stance when she holds her first face-to-face meeting with the US president in Washington on Tuesday. “The United States is a central trading partner not just for Germany but for the
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International, USAWASHINGTON — The number of Central American migrants stopped by Mexican officials at their southern border fell significantly in two recent months, likely foreshadowing a similar drop at the U.S. border. About 285 people a day were stopped entering Mexico from Guatemala in December and January, according statistics from the Mexican government, a 20 percent
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International, USAAs President Donald Trump prepared to enter the White House, reports began to circulate about what his first budget proposal would look like. The day before his inauguration, The Hill reported on plans of the incoming administration to make drastic cuts in government spending, including the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts and
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USAAs Americans, we often take our standing as an economic powerhouse for granted, though in boardrooms and on Capitol Hill, political and business leaders achieved this feat through forward thinking and hard-fought policymaking. For the most part over the course of the last 40 years, through Democratic and Republican presidents alike, our country embraced that
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USACHICAGO — Amy Krouse Rosenthal, a Chicago author who wrote a heart-wrenching column called “You May Want to Marry My Husband” while battling ovarian cancer, died Monday at 51. Rosenthal was a prolific creator described on her website as “a person who likes to make things.” That description includes children’s books and “grown-up books,” salads,
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Obituaries & memorials, USASaying Arab politicians should not have Israeli citizenship, defense minister predicts any land-for-peace deal will fail if Arab towns not made Palestinian By Jacob Magid Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman attends a meeting of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in Jerusalem on March 6, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman cautioned the US against
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Middle East, USASo it’s finally out. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released its much-anticipated cost estimate of the Republican health care plan that’s making its way through the House of Representatives. No wonder the White House and Republican leaders in Congress have been dissing the CBO recently. “Sometimes we ask them to do stuff they’re not
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAAUSTIN, Texas — Will Texas billionaire Mark Cuban run for president? During a talk at South by Southwest, the judge of the reality show “Shark Tank” didn’t rule out a 2020 race for the White House. “I’ve got a lot of time to decide, and we’ll see what happens,” he told the crowd. Cuban’s topic
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USAST. LOUIS — A federal judge Monday ordered that a St. Louis man accused of making at least eight bomb threats to Jewish organizations remain in jail until his possible indictment and trial. U.S. District Judge David Noce said that the allegations against Juan M. Thompson, 32, were “very serious,” and that allowing him out
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USATwenty-four million people will lose health insurance by 2026 if the healthcare plan put forward by House Republicans is enacted, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said in a report released Monday. The CBO estimated the American Health Care Act, the bill proposed by House Republicans to repeal and replace the American Care Act, also
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON — USC professor Raphael Bostic made history on Monday when he was named president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, becoming the first African-American to lead one of the Fed’s 12 regional banks. The choice of Bostic, 50, director of the Bedrosian Center on Governance at USC’s Sol Price School of Public Policy,
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USAOpposition to a congressional bill that would explicitly remove genetic privacy protections from workplace wellness programs grew on Monday, with one of the country’s leading wellness associations calling the proposed changes “punitive.” The bill, approved by a House committee last week, would eliminate longstanding genetic privacy protections from workplace wellness programs, which are allowed to
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