Trump: I’m not ruling out visiting Western Wall with Netanyahu

President Donald Trump isn”t ruling out having Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu join him during his visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem, despite a statement by National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster on Tuesday that “no Israeli leaders” would be accompanying the president. In an interview with Israel Hayom published Friday morning, the president said […]

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Middle East, USA

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner fly to Saudi Arabia – on Shabbat

President Trump will leave Washington on Friday kicking off his nine-day trip with a flight to Saudi Arabia. On Monday, the president will fly to Israel for a two-day visit, followed by a visit in the Vatican on Tuesday. Joining the president for his trip are his Orthodox Jewish daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law Jared Kushner.

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Middle East, USA

Yale University Dean Suspended Over Yelp Reviews

The dean of Pierson College at Yale University, June Chu, was placed on leave Thursday, after some racist reviews she had written on Yelp in the past started circulating among students of the Ivy League college. The reviews in question were directed toward some restaurants located in New Haven, Connecticut, the Daily Meal reported. For

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International, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

‘Trust US promise of no hostility and stop provocation’: Tillerson speaks to N. Korea

The United States wants North Korea to trust its promise of no hostility and conduct no more nuclear or missile tests before Washington can consider opening talks with the communist nation, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was quoted as saying Thursday. The remarks, made in a meeting with South Korea’s special presidential envoy Hong Seok-hyun,

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International, USA

White House video shows Israel without Golan and West Bank

At the same time, clip lists Trump’s meeting in Bethlehem with PA President Mahmoud Abbas under section titled ‘Israel’ By Raphael Ahren A screen shot from a White House video promoting US President Trumps first visit overseas / whitehouse.gov A map of Israel on a video the White House produced on US President Donald Trump’s

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Former Rep. Anthony Weiner pleads guilty to sexting with teen

NEW YORK — Anthony Weiner, the former Democratic congressman who unwittingly helped Donald Trump win the presidential election, pleaded guilty Friday in New York to charges of sending obscene material to a minor. The charges arose from a months-long sexually charged flirtation Weiner carried out with a 15-year-old high school sophomore in North Carolina. But

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USA

Trump press coverage set ‘new standard for negativity’: Harvard study

President Trump has insisted that his press coverage has been historically negative, and a newly released Harvard journalism study backs him up. A major study released Thursday by the Harvard Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy found that the coverage of Mr. Trump during his first 100 days was “unsparing,” with negative reports

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USA

Trump-Russia probe now includes possible cover-up, Congress is told

WASHINGTON — Investigators into Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential elections are now also probing whether White House officials have engaged in a cover-up, according to members of Congress who were briefed Friday by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. That avenue of investigation was added in recent weeks after assertions by former FBI Director James

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International, USA

Detroit Jewish leader to lead San Diego brain storming

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) –Soille Hebrew Day School will host Gary Torgow in San Diego at 5 p.m., Sunday, June 4, at the New Children’s Museum, 200 WEst Island Avenue, to discuss with community leaders ‘Envisioning a Sustainable San Diego Jewish Community.’  This  session will be chaired by Selwyn Isakow. Torgow is the international Chairman of ‘Mosaic United’

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San Diego Calendar, USA

Memories of Mickey Marcus and the Exodus

By Jerry Klinger WEST POINT, New York —  American Veterans of Israel Legacy Corporation organized and commemorated on May 7 the life of Mickey Marcus. It is an annual event at West Point, the last number of years held at the Jewish Chapel overlooking the Hudson. This year was the 51st commemoration. The commemoration honors an extraordinary

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International, Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Middle East, USA