By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — The Jewish vote no doubt contributed to the Democratic sweeps in the series of election upsets last week. Sizeable Jewish populations were either long established or steadily evolved in many of the states and towns where Democrats flipped not only statewide offices but also local posts. Both Nassau and […]
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USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — I always used to associate the number ‘13’ with the bat mitzvah ceremony of my elder daughter Sari. I of course relived the joy three years later when my younger daughter Debra also handled the life-event with the effervescence and gifts they both manifest. Both my daughters love
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USAA 20-year-old undocumented immigrant with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status and only one leg has been detained by federal immigration agents and held without charges for over a month, treated inhumanely and mocked for his prosthetic leg, an immigrant advocacy group says. Felipe Abonza-Lopez of San Marcos, Texas–detained by Customs and Border Protection agents
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USAIndependent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has called on President Donald Trump to put aside his hardline politics and offer assistance to Iran after the country was hit Sunday by what’s become the deadliest earthquake of the year. With casualties having reached at least 452 people dead and thousands more injured, mostly in Iran, according
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Middle East, USAThe Trump administration is hiring a small army of attorneys to fight landowners so the government can seize the property needed to build the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border that President Donald Trump promised his supporters. It is not clear how many Americans will have their land seized, how long the process will take, or
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USAWilmot Collins thought he was running for mayor of a small city with challenges he had a plan to address. What he didn’t realize is that by actually winning the election he would also become an overnight symbol of what refugees can achieve in America. Collins, who arrived in the US with his wife as
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USAAshley Judd Appointed As The UN Population Fund’s (UNFPA) Goodwill Ambassador There was a time when people believed most celebrities lived perfect lives. But if 2017 has taught us anything, it’s that some of the most beautiful people in the world have the saddest of skeletons in their closets. And many are not remaining silent
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USAThis story is being co-published with MapLight. Republican state law enforcement chiefs dined with their top donors at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort last weekend, according to an agenda obtained by MapLight through a public records request. An agenda for the Republican Attorneys General Association’s fall meeting in Palm Beach, Fla., lists a dinner on
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USAA senior official in charge of a federal loan guarantee program resigned after ProPublica reported his prior role in obtaining a guarantee under the same program as part of a deal that failed. The official, Gavin Clarkson, stepped down Monday as deputy assistant secretary for policy and economic development in the Interior Department’s Bureau of
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USAPresident Donald Trump was treated to a state dinner in Vietnam prominently featuring fish dishes, including a seafood soup containing shark fin—an expensive local delicacy responsible for driving sharks to extinction. The Vietnamese seafood soup, the fifth dish served in the seven-course menu on Saturday, contained another controversial ingredient. Demand for fish maw, also known
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International, USABy Eric Cortellessa WASHINGTON — The billionaire casino magnate and GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson said on Monday that he will not support Steve Bannon’s attempts to buck Republican leadership and try to unseat the party’s incumbents from Congress in 2018. “The Adelsons will not be supporting Steve Bannon’s efforts,” Andy Abboud, a family spokesman, told
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USARutgers Hillel calls Syrian apologist on faculty a ‘national embarrassment’ Mazen Adi, adjunct professor at Rutgers, served in Syrian Pres. Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Suddenly, two New Jersey college campuses have become battlegrounds for two very different fights facing Jewish students when it comes to the fraught issue of Israel. One battle, at Princeton, is being
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAPresident Reuven Rivlin met on Monday with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. During the meeting, the two discussed the strong ties between Israel and the United States and the courageous connection between cities in Israel and Los Angeles. The president invited the mayor to visit Israel in order to better get to know Israeli society.
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Middle East, USADonald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon is urging American Jews to join his war against the Republican establishment — and he’s bringing along a host of white supremacists and alt-right conspiracy theorists with him. “We’re leading an insurgency movement against the Republican establishment,” Bannon told the crowd at the Zionist Organization of America’s annual
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