Republicans: No outside investigation into Russian meddling needed

WASHINGTON — Key Republicans on Wednesday flatly rejected growing calls for an independent investigator or a special panel to probe possible ties between Russia and President Donald Trump’s campaign in the wake of Trump’s abrupt firing of FBI Director James Comey. While Democrats escalated their investigative demands — and threatened to stall Senate business as […]

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USA

Calls grow for an independent special prosecutor to investigate Trump campaign ties to Russia

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

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USA

Tom Price commends West Virginia officers who arrested journalist asking questions

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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USA

Hitler’s Reich and Trump’s America

By 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, USA

Gospel choir to perform May 13 at Tifereth Israel

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 Calendar

Why is New York City honoring a Nazi collaborator?

American 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, USA

Palestinians sue Israeli government for arson attack by extremists

Tel 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 East

Comey firing leaves Russia probes adrift; FBI findings key to Congress

WASHINGTON — 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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USA

Jimmy Kimmel responds to critics of his health care plea

Last 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, USA

Four challenges for Moon Jae-in, South Korea’s new president

By 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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International