By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Buoyed by his power to override the judicial system when he pardoned Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Donald Trump is considering pardons and actions he can take to help people who merit his intervention. Here’s the list he has compiled. * Bernie Madoff: He was just doing his job maximizing profits. Investors must […]
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — I find it extremely hard to call you “President Trump” because sadly for America, you neither act like a president nor speak like one. You neither have the moral authority that a president needs to project, nor the courage of one. You have neither the vision of an enlightened
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JERUSALEM (Press Release) –the Israel Rescue Coalition (IRC) mobilized Wednesday to dispatch a team comprised of elite members of United Hatzalah’s Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit to Houston, Texas, in order to provide mental and emotional stabilization to people who need it. The team includes psychologists, psychiatrists, and therapists and will be arriving in
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Middle East, USAThe State Department will retain a special envoy to monitor anti-Semitism, but other roles dealing with high-profile topics such as climate change and the closure of Guantánamo Bay will be scrapped as standalone positions, as part of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s efforts to streamline department functions. Tillerson made his decisions public Monday in a
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International, The World We Share, USAIn TV interview, Mubarak Al-Fadil Al-Mahdi blames Palestinians for ‘holding back developmental progress in the Arab world’; Hamas denounces his comments By Times of Israel staff Mubarak Al-Fadil Al-Mahdi, Sudan’s minister for investment, is interviewed on Sudanese television. (Screen capture: YouTube) A Sudanese minister said any possible normalization of ties between Sudan and Israel would
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Middle EastTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday accused Israel of undermining the efforts to reach a two-state solution, calling on the Jewish state to end such actions. “To find a solution and provide peace is not only in Palestinians” favor but also that of Israel,” he said during a meeting in Ankara with Palestinian Authority
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Middle EastAmid a climate of ‘hate-baiting’ in the US, a bizarre choice of license plate numbers is driving one reporter up the walls By Marshall Weiss DAYTON, Ohio — A bizarre byproduct of the surge in hate activity and hate-baiting in the United States is debate about the nature and usage of the word “goy.” When
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Travel and Food, USAUN Secretary-General H.E. António Guterres arrived on Monday to the the Grove of Nations in Jerusalem, as a guest of KKL-JNF World Chairman, Mr. Daniel Atar. Together with Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon and Atar, Guterres planted a tree in a formal ceremony. This marks the first visit of Secretary General Guterres
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International, Middle EastSam Eskenasi On Friday, David J. Cape, Chair of the Board of Canada’s Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), published an article in the Canadian Jewish News advocating the need to find a balance between awareness and “outrage” when responding to anti-Semitism. Cape argues that the community should breakdown incidents into categories, differentiating between
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InternationalAyelet Shaked says she plans to amend ruling preventing state from indefinitely detaining asylum seekers who refuse deportation By Times of Israel staff Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked speaks at the Justice Conference of the Israeli Bar Association in Tel Aviv on August 29, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90) Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked accused the High Court of
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Middle EastDefense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Tuesday approved granting official status to the Jewish community of Hevron. The move will unite the Jewish residents from a municipal perspective so that they will not be reliant on the Palestinian Authority’s Hevron municipality, as as stipulated in the Hevron agreement of 1997. Among other things, it was decided
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Middle EastThe Coalition for Jewish Values, a public policy institute representing hundreds of Orthodox Rabbis, today rebuked Jewish clergy who publicly announced their refusal to participate in an annual conference call with the President preceding the Jewish High Holy Days. Rabbis from four non-Orthodox Jewish organizations said last Wednesday they would not hold the annual call
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Middle East, USAFrench President Emmanuel Macron completed a shake-up of his communications team on Tuesday by appointing prominent columnist Bruno Roger-Petit as his spokesman in an effort to stem an alarming hemorrhage in support. An outspoken political commentator, Roger-Petit, 54, is expected to give the Élysée Palace’s media strategy a more combative edge amid a slide in
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InternationalIsraeli security establishment split over whether restricting privileges of inmates from Gaza could spark a new round of violence By Avi Issacharoff Oron Shaul, Hadar Goldin and Avraham Mengistu. (Flash90/The Times of Israel) A senior Hamas official has denied a report that the terror group is demanding the release of thousands of prisoners held by
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