USA

OU Israel Director: ‘Trump is not the cause of rising anti-Semitism’

US and Israeli media follow the proliferation of anti-Semitism in America the telephone threats to Jewish institutions, graffiti vandalism including Nazi symbols, and Jewish cemetery desecration are becoming a part of the routine in recent months. Arutz Sheva spoke about the phenomenon with Avi Berman, Executive Director of OU Israel, who stands in his capacity […]

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Middle East, USA

The talk show host who inspired Trump’s wiretap tweets

PHILADELPHIA — On Saturday morning, as reporters scrambled to find sources for President Donald Trump’s allegation that his predecessor had wiretapped Trump Tower during the election, it seemed all roads were leading to Mark Levin of Cheltenham. “It began,” The New York Times reported Sunday, “as a conspiratorial rant on conservative talk radio.” Levin, a

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USA

Lifting ban, Israel lets Human Rights Watch staffer in

Foreign Ministry says it reconsidered decision to bar Omar Shakir but still has misgivings about his alleged anti-Israel bias By Times of Israel staff Human Rights Watch Israel and Palestine director Omar Shakir (YouTube screenshot) An American employee of Human Rights Watch was granted entry into Israel Monday evening, after authorities blocked previous attempts to

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Middle East, USA

The WWII counterfeiter who forged ahead in the face of horror

Adolfo Kaminksy created fake documents that saved thousands of Jews in the Holocaust. Now his daughter tells his tale in a biography which opened a new page in their relationship By Anne Joseph Sarah Kaminsky can’t pinpoint the exact moment when she learned that her father Adolfo had been a forger during World War II.

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International, Jewish History, USA

Major anti-BDS summit to be convened at UN General Assembly

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon will convene a major summit at the UN focused on combating the anti-Israel boycott movement. More than 2,000 influential public figures, pro-Israel activists, students and representatives from organizations which oppose BDS are expected to take part in the event, constituting a remarkable show of support for the

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International, USA

Groups rally in support of Jewish communities across US

‘We have your back,‘ pledges Pennsylvania sheriff, as non-Jews slam countrywide anti-Semitism By Sue Surkes Signs, flowers and food delivered to the Asheville, North Carolina JCC by members of local churches on March 2, 2017, after the local community center received a bomb threat earlier in the week. (Courtesy/Tami Gross) Meetings, vigils and demonstrations were

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USA

White House pledges to work to stop anti-Semitic incidents

The White House condemned the latest wave of bomb threats against Jewish institutions in the US Tuesday. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer began the daily White House press briefing by speaking of the anti-Semitic threats. “There has been an additional wave of threats to Jewish community centers and Anti-Defamation League offices. According to some

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USA

Deputy attorney general nominee resists call for special prosecutor in Russia probe

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department official who would oversee the federal investigation into Russia’s meddling in the U.S. election sidestepped calls to appoint a special prosecutor, testifying Tuesday that he didn’t know enough about the probe to make such a pledge. Rod Rosenstein, a top federal prosecutor nominated by President Donald Trump to be deputy

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USA

Nominee to be No. 2 at Justice Department says he sees no reason to recuse himself from Russia probe

WASHINGTON — Rod Rosenstein, the nominee to be the second-in-command at the Justice Department, testified Tuesday that he was “not aware” of any reason he would be prohibited from overseeing investigations into Russia’s meddling in the U.S. presidential campaign. The 51-year-old federal prosecutor told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he may have met with Russian

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International, USA

Hollywood star demands Israel divide Jerusalem, end ‘occupation’

Hollywood A-lister Richard Gere, who portrayed King David in the eponymously titled 1985 film and is perhaps best remembered for his lead roles in An Officer and a Gentleman, Pretty Woman, and Runaway Bride, is set to land in Israel later on Tuesday. But while the actor”s past visits to the Jewish state received warm

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Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

4th Native Women in Film Festival Highlights Anti-Pipeline Cause

Winona at an informational meeting about the Enbridge pipelines Sandpiper and Line 3. (Photo: Keri Pickett)[dc]O[/dc]jibwe Nation tribal member Winona LaDuke – Ralph Nader’s vice presidential candidate on the Green Party ticket in 2000 – appeared Feb. 23 at the 4th Native Women in Film Festival, where an anti-pipeline documentary about…

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

UCF fraternity brother accused of putting gun barrel to pledge’s head

ORLANDO, Fla. — A University of Central Florida fraternity has been temporarily suspended after a member was accused of holding a gun barrel to the head of a blindfolded pledge, school documents released this week show. As pledges lay on the floor blindfolded, an Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity brother leading them “took out a rifle

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA