WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has fired FBI Director James B. Comey, who has been criticized by Democrats and Republicans since the presidential election. “The president has accepted the recommendation of the attorney general and the deputy attorney general regarding the dismissal of the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” press secretary Sean Spicer […]
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USAActress urges US president’s daughter to ‘tell your dad about real people who are suffering’ By Gabe Friedman JTA – Tell us how you really feel, Debra Messing. Accepting an award from GLAAD, an LGBT advocacy group, on Saturday night, the Jewish actress implored Ivanka Trump to stand up to her father, US President Donald
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USASEATTLE — Seattle Mayor Ed Murray ended his campaign for re-election Tuesday — bowing out of a race that weeks ago he had been expected to win easily, shutting the door on a second term in Seattle’s highest office and aborting a political career that’s spanned decades. Murray’s decision comes a month after he was
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USAIllegal immigration across the southwest border dropped yet again in April, with the number of illegal immigrant children fallen below 1,000 for the first time in recent records, Homeland Security announced Tuesday. The numbers are part of a stunning drop since the beginning of the Trump administration. Border Patrol apprehensions alone are down a shocking
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Forbidden Night by Joanne Lewis, Soul Attitude Press, (c) 2016; 282 pages; ISBN 9781939-181755. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — At first, I was a bit bewildered by this novel; it alternated several stories in different time periods and I wondered how they would all come together. But they did! One story dealt with
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By Pamela Pollack-Fremd SPOKANE, Washington — Immigration has never been easy–moving to a new country, learning a new language, and adapting to new cultural norms can be the most difficult thing a person ever does. Immigrating is not easy today nor has it been easy in the past. About the Dybbuks, a collection of short stories
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish History, USAWINCHESTER, California (Press Release)–The story of the Jewish calendar, which begins with the Exodus from Egypt, is more than 3,500 years old. Over the millennia, the twelve individual Jewish tribes coalesced into the nation of Israel, adopting, adapting, and ultimately developing their own religious calendar, which has withstood the vagaries of the ages. At one
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish History, Jewish ReligionBy Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — Since he wrote it in 1984, Larry Shue’s play The Foreigner has been produced and revived by amateurs, students, and professional companies almost continually. It’s a two-act, two-and-a-half-hour absurdist comedy that taxes the abilities of the lead actor, who has to speak in gibberish the entire time. Fortunately, Mike Niedzwiecki is up
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Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAAbbas says he is ready to meet with Netanyahu ‘to make peace’ (JNS.org) Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday he is ready to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of President Donald Trump’s renewed peace efforts. “We affirmed to [Trump] that we are ready to cooperate with him and meet
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Middle EastFormer U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke suggested Sunday an income tax cut to get the economy moving is unnecessary, and the country would be better off with infrastructure spending and tax reform. “I think that it is important, as I mentioned, even though the recovery is proceeding, the underlying growth path is not very
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USALOS ANGELES — Actor Antonio Sabato Jr. is running for Congress, challenging Rep. Julia Brownley, a Democrat who represents the southern central coast of California and most of Ventura County, according to documents filed Monday with the Federal Election Commission. Attempts to reach the Republican candidate were unsuccessful Monday, but GOP strategist Charles Moran, who
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAA brain to pick, a shoulder to cry on, and a kick in the pants By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — We all have friends or family members we can talk to, colleagues we use as sounding boards—all of whom may be helpful—but we seldom think in terms of the specific functions these
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Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and FoodIstanbul (dpa) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday compared Israeli policies towards Palestinians as equivalent to the racist measures implemented under the apartheid regime in South Africa. He also cautioned the United States not to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Such a move is “extremely wrong” and such talk should
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Middle EastAUSTIN, Texas — Broadcasting on Facebook Live from the state Capitol, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday evening signed the bill to ban so-called sanctuary cities, the common term for local jurisdictions that decline in some way to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. “We all support legal immigration. It helped build America and Texas,” Abbott
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