WASHINGTON — Pressure mounted Wednesday for the Justice Department to name an independent special prosecutor to look into whether anyone close to President Donald Trump worked with Russia to sway the election in Trump’s favor. A day after Trump abruptly fired FBI Director James Comey, top Senate Democrats doubled down on their demand for an […]
CONCORD, N.H. – Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price on Wednesday commended police in West Virginia for “doing what they thought was appropriate” in arresting a journalist who shouted questions at him, but added that it wasn’t his call to say whether they took the proper measures. Price said the reporter confronted him
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USAWhite House press secretary and former Easter Bunny Sean Spicer has a real tough job sometimes. And on Tuesday night, when President Donald Trump fired FBI director James Comey, it apparently became too much to handle. RELATED: Sean Spicer’s best moments are also his worst Spicer had planned to email out a statement announcing Comey’s
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Choices: The True Story of One Family’s Daring Escape to Freedom by J.E. Laufer; Little Egg Publishing Co; (c) 2017; ISBN 9781881-669067; 102 pages plus 3 pages of photographs. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — The story may be true, but the book officially is classified as fiction because it imagines conversations that the
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VideosBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — In a review in a recent issue of The New York Review of Books of Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939 by Volker Ullrich – the book has recently appeared in English – the distinguished Holocaust historian Christopher Browning writes: “There are sufficient areas of similarity in some regards to make the book
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Back to my homeland? I’m no longer sure what is my homeland. I did not flee the US, in contrast to relatives of earlier generations who felt they had to leave Eastern Europe or Germany, but to take a job that looked interesting. Over time, I became more Israeli and
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — What’s that you say? A gospel choir will be performing at a Conservative Jewish synagogue? Yes, it’s true: immediately following Havdalah at 8:16 p.m. on Saturday, May 13, the 80-member, multiracial Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Choir San Diego (MLKCC) will perform in the sanctuary of Tifereth Israel
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David Ogul, Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego CalendarAmerican Jewish groups are up in arms over an official street marker in Manhattan honoring a Nazi collaborator responsible for the deportation of thousands of Jews to German concentration camps. The City of New York recently decided to honor historical figures welcomed in the city since 1886 with ticker-tape parades, transforming 13 blocks of Manhattan”s
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International, USATel Aviv (dpa) – Relatives of a Palestinian family killed in a 2015 West Bank arson attack have submitted a 3-million-dollar lawsuit against the Israeli government, which they say bears responsibility for the extremist attack. The suit, filed in the Israeli city of Nazareth on Monday, claims the state is responsible for the deaths of
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Middle EastWASHINGTON — The shock firing of FBI Director James Comey Tuesday casts a shadow over the future of congressional investigations into Russia’s attempts to interfere in the 2016 election on behalf of President Donald Trump. Comey, who has testified before the Senate and House intelligence committees on several occasions as well as before other committees
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USALast week, an emotional Jimmy Kimmel took the stage on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and opened up about the complications faced by his newborn son. Skipping the jokes, Kimmel’s tearful 15-minute monologue turned into a plea to politicians in Washington to protect and strengthen health care coverage for all Americans. “If your baby is going
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Markus Bell, Anthropologist and Lecturer in Korean and Japanese studies, University of Sheffield and Marco Milani, Postdoctoral Scholar, Korean Studies Institute, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. South Korea’s Moon Jae-in victorious on May 9, 2017. AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon Democrat Moon Jae-in is the new president of South
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InternationalMIAMI — Haitian President Jovenel Moise will personally ask President Donald Trump not to end a humanitarian program that has protected tens of thousands of Haitians from deportation. “He hopes that it will be prolonged,” Wilson Laleau, Haiti’s former finance minister and Moise’s chief of staff, told The Miami Herald Tuesday. “He will officially ask
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