HARTFORD, Conn. — A 91-year-old gay veteran from Connecticut has won his legal quest to upgrade his discharge status to honorable. H. Edward Spires of Norwalk was notified Friday morning that his application to the Air Force Board for Correction of Military Records was approved, eliminating the undesirable discharge designation that has marked his service […]
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, the recently retired UC Santa Cruz Hebrew and Jewish Studies professor who heads the national AMCHA Initiative, said Monday that she fears that Jewish students across the country may bear the brunt of a lot of anger now that they are returning from winter break to
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USACHARLESTON, S.C. — Convicted killer Dylann Roof said Monday he will offer no witnesses to counter the prosecution’s case that he should die by execution. As the jury watched, Roof rose from his table in the front of the courtroom around noon Monday. “The defense rests,” Roof told U.S. Judge Richard Gergel, then sat back
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USAJERUSALEM (Press Release) – The Jewish Religious Equality Coalition (J-REC) is visiting Israel to advocate for religious pluralism. Created and led by AJC, J-REC is a broad-based coalition of American Jews and Israelis dedicated to the realization of full religious equality in the Jewish state, and is mobilizing support for the creation of alternatives to the
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USAPalestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Secretary General Saeb Erekat blasted the U.S. Congress for overwhelmingly voting to condemn United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, which condemned Israeli construction in Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem. The bipartisan House measure passed last week by a majority of 342-80. It said that Resolution 2334 “undermines the prospect of Israelis
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Middle East, USAPalestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmud Abbas has written to US President-elect Donald Trump urging him not to move the American embassy to Jerusalem, official PA media reported Monday Monday. The PA news agency Wafa did not say when the letter was sent but said it aimed to explain the “risks” of moving the embassy from
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Middle East, USASenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday he’s still hoping to confirm President-elect Donald Trump’s national security Cabinet picks on Jan. 20, just after the new president is sworn in. After meeting with Mr. Trump in New York, Mr. McConnell emerged to say Republicans will give all the nominees scrutiny, but he’s pushing to have
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USABy Dustin Hornbeck, Ph.D. Student in Educational Leadership and Policy, Miami University. Education Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos speaks in Grand Rapids, Michigan. AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File After President-elect Donald Trump tapped Betsy DeVos to become the head of the United States Department of Education, her name has spurred a great deal of conversation within the K-12
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USASeaWorld San Diego ended its long-running killer whale show on Sunday, following years of protests and falling attendance. SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. announced last year that it was ending its theatrical orca shows and breeding programme. The final performances, which featured whales cavorting with trainers and leaping high out of the Shamu Stadium pool, came only
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The World We Share, USAMore than half a dozen Jewish community centers in the U.S. and schools in London received bomb threats Monday. There were no known connection between the threats as of Monday afternoon. At least one police department in New Jersey was contacted by the FBI, said Tenafly Police Department Chief Robert Chamberlain. The FBI did not
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International, USAAustralian businessman James Packer reportedly paid for meals worth thousands of shekels sent to PM’s private home in Caesarea, split costs of cigars, champagne with Arnon Milchan By Raoul Wootliff and Times of Israel staff Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, tour Ramat Hanadiv, a nature park in northern Israel, April 25, 2016.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Esteban Santiago, handcuffed, shackled and wearing a red maximum-security jumpsuit, spoke in a monotone Monday as he answered questions from a federal magistrate during a hearing that lasted about 30 minutes. Santiago, 26, who is accused of killing five people and wounding six others at Fort Lauderdale’s airport, was flanked by
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USADuring her acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille award at Sunday night’s Golden Globe Awards, Meryl Streep took a rather large swipe at Donald Trump. “This instinct to humiliate, when it’s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody’s life, because it kind of gives permission for
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAPresident Obama on Sunday said he and his Twitter-loving successor, Donald Trump, are “sort of opposites in some ways,” though he acknowledged that neither of them suffers from a lack of confidence. “It’s probably a prerequisite for the job, or at least you have to have enough craziness to think that you can do the
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