Pressure is mounting inside Washington on President Donald Trump not to follow through on his campaign pledge to relocate the US Embassy in Israel to the Israeli capital of Jerusalem and recognize the city as the united capital of the Jewish state. Just days before his planned May 22nd visit to Israel, conflicting reports have […]
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Middle East, USAStockholm (dpa) – A Danish court Tuesday found a teenage girl guilty of terrorism over planning to attack two schools, one of them a Jewish school in the capital, Copenhagen. The teen, now aged 17, has been in custody since January 2016. She converted to Islam a few years ago and was believed to be
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InternationalUS Ambassador to Israel David Friedman met with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin Tuesday morning, a day after Friedman arrived in Israel to begin his service as ambassador. President Rivlin received Friedman”s credentials, marking the formal beginning of Friedman”s ambassadorship to the Jewish state. Two other new ambassadors, representing Spain and Thailand, were also received by
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Middle East, USALOS ANGELES, May 15, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — On Friday, May 12, U.S. District Court judge André Birotte, Jr. granted a legal victory to the Chabad of Irvine, a small Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Irvine. The judge dismissed a lawsuit brought against the synagogue by animal rights activists, who sought to end a 1200-year-old Orthodox Jewish
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Jewish Religion, USAAn Israeli-Arab teenager seeking to convert to Judaism and enlist in the IDF was freed recently from captivity, after police received a tip that the youth had been locked up by his family. According to NRG, police found a 19-year old Israeli-Arab man being held against his will in his family”s home in the Arab-Israeli
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Middle EastAdmitting immigrants and refugees from the Middle East has become a huge flashpoint in US policy with the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict their entry to the US. So it’s interesting to note that back in the 19th century, one of the first Arab Muslim immigrants to the US — potentially the first-ever Syrian immigrant
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Middle East, USAHouse Minority Whip Steny Hoyer on Tuesday accused President Trump of eroding confidence in the U.S. government both at home and abroad but stopped well short of calling for impeachment. Mr. Hoyer, Maryland Democrat, joined House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in saying that Democrats mulling Mr. Trump’s ouster must justify it with evidence. “We need
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International, USAArthur Sulzberger Jr. sends personal letter to subscribers who canceled over new hire By JTA Bret Stephens at alumni weekend at the University of Chicago, June 7, 2014. (Jason Smith via JTA) The publisher of The New York Times sent a personal letter to subscribers who canceled over the newspaper’s hiring of conservative columnist Bret
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Middle East, USAU.S. intelligence officials reportedly warned their Israeli counterparts to exert caution in sharing top secret information with Donald Trump’s administration for fear of it being passed to Russia and then to Moscow’s ally and Israel’s arch-enemy, Iran. Discussions between U.S. and Israeli security services prior to Trump’s inauguration on January 20 gave rise to concerns
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International, Middle East, USAYou can add “wrecking the schedule of our favorite birds” to the list of negative effects of climate change. A new study has shown that the onset of spring is being significantly shifted due to global warming, and this is having a negative effect on migratory birds. The Blue-winged warbler is one of the North-American
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The World We ShareHarry S. Truman was perhaps one of the most influential presidents of the 20th century. He oversaw the end of World War I and rose to the challenge of the Cold War. He was crucial to the creation of international organizations like the United Nations and NATO. But for many people, Truman is remembered for
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International, USAWASHINGTON — In tweets Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump said he had shared “facts pertaining to terrorism and airline flight safety” with Russian diplomats in an Oval Office meeting last week, confirming a key part of a news report his aides had denied the night before. Trump said he had shared the information in the
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International, USAA class action lawsuit alleging the Democratic National Committee worked in junction with Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign to keep Bernie Sanders out of the White House has been raging on in the courtrooms for months on end–and yet, most people have no idea of its existence, in large part thanks to the mainstream media’s total
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USABy Cynthia Citron NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California — Cruelty is usually the weapon of choice in dysfunctional families. In the Lyons family this toxic behavior has engendered alienation, isolation, and loneliness in an unhappy foursome in New York. In Nicky Silver’s play, The Lyons, however, the mitigating factor is that the unfolding drama is bursting with
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