By Shoshana Bryen and Stephen Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The president is being asked by the Pentagon to provide U.S. ground troops to fight ISIS in Syria. If the president is wise, he will run as fast as he can the other way. There are four potential traps here: • The cost in American lives; […]
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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, Stephen D. Bryen, USAUS Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley blasted the UN for its obsession with Israel during an address to the Security Council. “I just put out to the members of the Security Council to help me understand: When we have so much going on in the world, why is it that every single month we”re
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International, Middle East, USAUS President Donald Trump on Tuesday decried anti-Semitic threats against Jewish community centers as “horrible” and “painful,” promising to work to bridge divisions in the country. “This tour was a meaningful reminder of why we have to fight bigotry, intolerance and hatred in all of its very ugly forms,” Trump said in remarks after visiting
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USAThe White House on Monday night denounced the recent bomb threats against Jewish community centers across the United States, saying such actions are “unacceptable”. “Hatred and hate-motivated violence of any kind have no place in a country founded on the promise of individual freedom,” White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said in a statement in
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USAFormer Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton condemned a string of anti-Semitic incidents and demanded President Donald Trump do the same when she took to Twitter Tuesday. In her tweet, Clinton referenced a series of bomb threats that targeted Jewish Community Centers throughout the country Monday. Jewish Community Centers in 10 states were evacuated in response
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USAAfter a weekend in which Jewish Community Centers and graveyards in many states were vandalized, Ivanka Trump spoke out. RELATED: Yet another major retailer has dropped Ivanka Trump’s line from its website The elder daughter of the President of the United States converted to Judaism after she married her husband, White House senior staffer Jared
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USARussian Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin addresses members of the U.N. Security Council during a meeting about the Ukraine situation, at the U.N. headquarters in New York, March 6, 2015. [FILE PHOTO/Agencies] Russia’s combative ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, died suddenly in New York on Monday after being taken ill at
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International, USAGuess what? It did get better for gay, lesbian and bisexual high schoolers when the states they were growing up in changed their laws to allow same-sex marriage, a new study finds. More specifically, in a 16-year period during which changes in state marriage laws were sweeping the nation, states that adopted laws allowing same-sex
Thousands descended on London’s Parliament Square on Monday evening to protest the government’s plans to give US President Donald Trump a lavish state visit this year. The demonstrators gathered just as MPs debated a petition signed by 1.85 million people saying a formal state visit “would cause embarrassment to Her Majesty the Queen”. An opposing
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International, USAOn a tour of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, President Trump said Tuesday the new museum is about love for the U.S. and equated it with his motivation for issuing orders to prevent dangerous people from entering the country. “This building is about love,” Mr. Trump said in an interview with
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USABy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — President Trump remained true to his customary flip-flopping on just about every issue when he stated during a joint press conference with Prime Minister Netanyahu that he is “looking at two-state and one-state, and I like the one that both parties like… I can live with either one.” By
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Alon Ben-Meir, Middle East, USAJERUSALEM (Press Release) – Fourteen U.S. Baptist leaders returned from Israel this week after learning about the Jewish state beyond the headlines and building Christian-Jewish bridges, in a mission, Feb. 13-20, organized by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (The Fellowship). The Baptist leaders toured Christian and Jewish holy sites including the Western (Wailing) Wall and
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — A fight between leaders at the Justice and Homeland Security departments could delay release of President Donald Trump’s revised executive order to limit to the United States by citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries, according to a person who was briefed on the dispute. The department leaders are debating whether to again revoke the
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International, Middle East, USAST. LOUIS, Missouri — The American Jewish Committee condemned the mass vandalism at the Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in University City. More than 100 headstones were reportedly damaged in the attack early Monday. “Destruction of Jewish headstones is a painful act of anti-Semitism,” said Nancy Lisker, director of AJC St. Louis. “We feel the pain of
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