International

House Speaker Paul Ryan: Health care bill is on track for passage this week

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said Sunday he feels “very good” about his Obamacare replacement’s prospects for passage this week, saying President Trump is a “great closer” who will bring enough Republicans on board with the plan. Yet Mr. Ryan confirmed that negotiators are looking at ways to offer additional help to older Americans whose […]

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

PLO blasts UN for removing ‘apartheid’ report

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi on Saturday blasted the UN for removing the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) report that accused Israel of imposing an apartheid regime on Palestinian Arabs. “Instead of succumbing to political blackmail or allowing itself to be censured or intimidated by external parties, the

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International, Middle East

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

Rosh Yeshiva’s wife donates kidney – after her son did the same

Rabbanit Naomi Shapira, mother of 11 and well-known in the religious-Zionist community for her classes on Jewish marriage and sanctity, donated a kidney last week to a mother of three, Ilanit. The latter had been waiting three years for a donor. Mrs. Shapira, wife of Yeshivat Ramat Gan dean Rabbi Yehoshua Shapira, said she became

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Jewish charter flight forced to make emergency landing

A charter flight for Jews taking part in the annual pilgrimage to an 18th century Hasidic rebbe”s grave in Eastern Europe was forced to make an emergency landing Sunday in Amsterdam. The Boeing 767, carrying some 200 passengers, was forced down after the cabin suddenly depressurized. Witnesses say passengers were forced to breathe through masks

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International

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

Coalition spat over new Israeli broadcaster threatens early elections

Tel Aviv (dpa) – Threats to call new elections swirled Sunday in Israel amid coalition infighting, with the long-delayed establishment of a new public broadcaster at the centre, according to local media. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly threatened to call fresh elections if Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon insists on going through with the

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Middle East