Istanbul (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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International, USAFormer President Barack Obama gave a sweet tribute to his wife and former first lady, Michelle Obama, during a speech Sunday while accepting the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage award. “I also want to thank Michelle Obama for, after the presidency, sticking with me, because I think she felt an obligation to the country
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By Rabbi David Kornberg SAN DIEGO — Early on Shabbat morning, our Carmel Valley community was rocked with a tragedy of unprecedented scope. A 15 year old student at Torrey Pines High School called police officers to himself in the early hours of the morning. When they arrived he drew an airsoft gun and aimed
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Somewhere There Is Still a Sun by Michael Gruenbaum with Todd Hasak-Lowy; Aladdin Books of Simon & Schuster Publishing; (c) 2015; ISBN 9781442-484870; 356 pages plus afterword and appendices; $8.99 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — This is a Holocaust memoir written for children of perhaps middle school age. It is narrated in present
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SAN DIEGO — Our license plate maven, Melanie Rubin, caught a glimpse of this plate on a Prius, which is a hybrid car, while riding through neighboring Orange County. GR8R Tov, or “greater good” may well refer to using less gasoline, and thus causing less pollution, than a standard automobile.
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & SatirePalestinian terrorist prisoner Barghouti caught secretly eating during hunger strike (JNS.org) Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan revealed Sunday that convicted Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti, who has led a hunger strike in Israeli prisons, has been caught secretly eating. A video released by the Israel Prison Service (IPS) shows security camera recordings of Barghouti
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Middle EastBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−President Trump invited House Republicans to the Rose Garden to celebrate their passage of the American Health Care Act. This is like a Major League Baseball team holding a ticker tape parade after winning one game of the World Series. * Despite its promises to combat opioid addition and drug
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — The important distinction made by the late Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, the most significant contemporary exponent of modern Orthodox Judaism, between the covenant of fate and the covenant of destiny has important ramifications beyond Jewish theology. The covenant of fate is rooted in the paradigmatic experience of Egyptian bondage and
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Jewish ReligionWithout naming Breaking the Silence, Frank-Walter Steinmeier says democracy can take a critical look at itself, autocrats cannot By Raphael Ahren German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier speaking in Jerusalem on May 7, 2017. (Dov Smith/Hebrew University) German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Sunday delivered a subtle but harsh rebuke to Prime Minister Netanyahu over the latter’s refusal
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International, Middle EastBerlin (dpa) – Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party is projected to win elections in Germany’s northern-most state, a boost ahead of her campaign for national elections that also deals a second consecutive blow to her centre-left rivals. According to a projection on Sunday from public broadcaster ZDF, Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) won 33.8 per cent in
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InternationalEmmanuel Macron graduated from one of the world’s most prestigous public administration universities. He later worked as an investment banker at Rothschild. Aged 29, he married a French high school teacher twenty-four years his senior. Her eldest daughter had been Macron’s classmate. In 2014, Emmanuel Macron was appointed France’s economy minister under François Hollande. Macron
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InternationalBy electing Ismail Haniyeh to head its political bureau, the terror group wants to show it is moderating – without, of course, accepting Israel By Avi Issacharoff Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh gestures to the crowd at a rally marking the 28th anniversary of Hamas’s founding, in Gaza City, December 14, 2015. (Emad Nassar/Flash90) Saturday’s
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