Having ambassador’s residence in Jerusalem is tantamount to moving the U.S. embassy By J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida — If a fraction of the women from Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Ohio who left their homes o participate in the massive Women’s March against President Donald Trump on Saturday, January 21st had voted in the November election, […]
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Middle East, USASAN FRANCISCO (Press Release)–At a time when hate and intolerance is rising at an alarming rate, AMCHA Initiative Director Tammi Rossman-Benjamin on Thursday, Jan. 26, delivered a letter from 47 education, Jewish and civil rights groups to the University of California Board of Regents calling on UC to implement the Regents’ Principles Against Intolerance as a “relevant,
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAOne day after the Senate confirmed South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President Donald Trump, her replacement, former Lieutenant Gov. Henry McMaster, came under renewed public scrutiny for his affiliation with a country club accused of racial segregation. At least 840 people have signed a petition demanding
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USAU.S. politician Madeleine Albright has announced she is “ready to register as Muslim” in response to Donald Trump’s impending immigration policies. Albright, the first woman to have become the U.S. Secretary of State in 1997, said she would stand in “solidarity” with followers of the Islamic faith if a registry was brought in by the
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USANow retired, Michael Shinagel reflects on his family’s flight from Vienna and how he, a boy who didn’t know English until age 7, earned a PhD in literature By Rich Tenorio CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — Seventy-five years ago, a young Austrian-Jewish refugee fled Nazi-occupied Europe with his parents and older brother. That 7-year-old boy named Michael
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Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAThe election of President Donald Trump is causing extreme reactions of support and dissent. The latter now includes a senior U.S. Secret Service agent who wrote in a Facebook post that she would not feel compelled to protect the nation’s new leader. Kerry O’Grady, the special agent in charge of the Secret Service’s Denver district,
U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis will visit South Korea next week on his first trip since taking office to underscore the U.S. commitment to the alliance between two countries, the Pentagon said Wednesday. The trip, which is set to begin on Feb. 1 and also includes a stop in Japan, comes as tensions are
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International, USALatin American and Caribbean leaders, meeting in the Dominican Republic, have slammed Donald Trump’s tough immigration policies and border wall project. Most of the roughly 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States are from Latin America. The CELAC summit heard calls for the US President to respect migrants’ human rights. “The solution to stopping
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International, USAVicente Fox is not holding back his words after Donald Trump signed an executive order to move forward with plans to build a wall on the border of México and the United States. The former President of México sent a tweet to Press Secretary Sean Spicer: “I’ve said this to Donald Trump and now I’ll
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International, USAA plan to temporarily suspend the U.S. refugee resettlement program has alarmed human rights activists, who argue that the new measures could separate families, further endanger those fleeing conflict and discredit America’s long legacy of providing safe harbor for the world’s most vulnerable people. Advocates for a more stringent immigration policy cheered the proposal being
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International, USAIn the history of flight pioneers, schoolchildren learn about the Wright brothers, Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart. But Thursday’s Google Doodle reminded the world of Bessie Coleman, a woman whose name may not be as well-known, but who is no less seminal in the history of aviation or civil rights. A black woman who was
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USAPresident Trump on Wednesday ordered the Homeland Security Department to begin releasing a name-and-shame list of sanctuary cities, listing the specific crimes such as murder or robbery committed by those who have been released back into their communities under the sanctuary policies. That was one of a number of less-noticed but potentially far-reaching moves tucked
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The world will be fluid for some time. Barack Obama downsized the weight of the US. We’re amidst an upsurge in Muslim violence, chaos in a number of Middle Eastern countries, plus the resurgence of Russian power in Ukraine, Syria, and Libya, all this against the milk toast approach of Obama
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — This past Saturday, millions of Americans marched in concert together in civil disobedience and out of the most fervent patriotism there is—love. I had the opportunity to participate in the Women’s March that filled the downtown streets, sidewalks, and storefronts of Los Angeles. It was gratifying, cleansing, and
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