By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –This past weekend, Detroit pastor Bishop Wayne Jackson draped a tallit around Donald Trump’s shoulders at service. What was the Jewish reaction? Well, that takes us to the rest of the story that I am about to tell you. Most Jews I know are probably confused about […]
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USAThis story originally appeared on Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. More than a year after troubling allegations of sexual harassment at an Environmental Protection Agency office were exposed in a congressional hearing, the agency’s watchdog says it will conduct an audit of how this office handles sexual-harassment
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USAHugh O’Brian, the star of TV’s “The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp,” died Monday. He was 91. O’Brian died in Beverly Hills, Calif., according to a statement on the Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership Foundation website. Handsome, square-jawed and athletically fit, the dark-haired O’Brian appeared in a string of movies and TV anthology series in
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABarack Obama becomes the first US president to visit Laos this week, half a century after America’s “secret war” left this long-isolated nation with the unfortunate distinction of being the most heavily bombed country in history. The US president arrives in the landlocked Southeast Asian nation on Monday to attend a regional summit, marking the
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International, USACLEVELAND — Hillary Clinton opened her sprint to Election Day with a lancing denunciation of Donald Trump, her Republican opponent, who was also campaigning in the key state of Ohio. In a speech in Cleveland that was interrupted by a coughing fit that left her voice raw, Clinton spent the majority of her time castigating
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USAPresident Obama defended 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s protest against the national anthem Monday, saying he has a constitutional right not to show respect for “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the start of games. “My understanding is he’s exercising his constitutional right to make a statement,” Mr. Obama said at a press conference in Hangzhou, China, in
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International, Sports & Competitions, USADespite evidence of Russia hacking into U.S. election systems, President Obama said Monday that he doesn’t want to escalate into a “wild, wild West” cyberwar with Moscow. Emerging from a 90-minute meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in China, Mr. Obama acknowledged that the Russians have been attacking U.S. institutions on the Internet. “We’ve had
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International, USALANSDALE, Pa. — Marie Jeffries has a very firm view of Donald Trump, and she says it won’t change in the nine weeks before Election Day. “He’s a wild man. I think he might put us into a war,” said Jeffries, who was among hundreds sauntering down Main Street in this southeastern Pennsylvania town on
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USAHANGZHOU, China – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was silent Monday after reports that Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan used the G20 to pointedly criticize U.S. president Barack Obama over his support for Kurdish troops fighting ISIL in Syria. Trudeau didn’t respond to a question about whether similar concerns had been raised in his “pull aside”
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International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — An Internet friend sent me a YouTube showing a scene from the TV drama, The Newsroom. It has characters claiming that America is the greatest country on earth. Then the star of the show sets them straight with comparative data that reveal something much different. Among the items he cites
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International, Middle East, USANEW YORK (WJC)–The World Jewish Congress-United States (WJC-US) on Thursday expressed its deep dismay concerning the decision by the Second US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York to dismiss a $655.5 million terrorism judgement against the Palestinian Authority (PA), calling it a strong setback to the efforts to hold the PA liable for attacks
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Middle East, USAA high school in upstate South Carolina will have extra security measures in place when students return after the Labor Day weekend, after Jewish and Muslim students were threatened on social media, JTA reported Sunday. A student reported the “extremely vulgar” threats to the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office on Friday night, according to local media.
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USAHANGZHAO, China — President Barack Obama’s emissaries spent much of Sunday talking with Russian officials here about how to quell the violence in Syria, but the president all but shrugged his shoulders when asked about the prospects of a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Given the previous failures of cessations of hostilities to hold,
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International, Middle East, USADemocratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has come under fire for going 274 days without a press conference, but her running mate insists that’s not true: She’s done one. Tim Kaine, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, said Sunday that he wanted to “push back on the notion that she hasn’t done a press conference.” “She gave a
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