By 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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Middle EastThe centrist Emmanuel Macron decisively won France’s presidential election on Sunday, beating the far-right into submission with a liberal, internationalist agenda. With more than 99 percent of local areas counted, Macron had taken 65 percent of the vote to his far-right rival Marine Le Pen’s 35 percent. Sunday brought a remarkable campaign to an end.
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InternationalWASHINGTON — The White House said Sunday it’s now up to the Senate to address any problems with the health care bill passed by the House last week. President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Reince Priebus, said on “Fox News Sunday that he is “excited where we’re at” on health care, adding that by pushing
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAManila (dpa) – Philippine police were on high alert Sunday, after twin bomb blasts killed two people near a mosque in Manila, amid fears that more attacks could take place. The Islamic State extremist group claimed responsibility for the Saturday night bombings, which took place near the largest mosque in the capital. But Oscar Albayalde,
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By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Harvey Paris is a Jewish chip carver who has carved out a place where he can put his hobby to good use. It all started in 2006 when Paris decided to find a suitable hobby to keep him busy and quiet at home while his wife began studying
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Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsThis new study reveals evidence that some corals are adapting to warming ocean waters – offering great hope following recent reports of coral die-offs due to rising temperatures. Researchers observed how reefs in two Kenyan marine national parks responded to extreme temperature exposure over time. They found that 11 of the 21 coral species that
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The World We SharePARIS — Political newcomer Emmanuel Macron will be France’s next president, pollsters projected Sunday night, delivering a resounding victory to an unabashedly pro-European former investment banker and strengthening France’s place as a central pillar of the European Union. A crowd outside the Louvre museum at a Macron victory party jubilantly waved red, white and blue
By David Anderson, J.D. NEW YORK — For his inaugural trip abroad our President has picked an unpredictable but thematically consistent itinerary. He’ll be stopping at the Vatican, presumably without the whole kerfuffle of a state visit in Italy, then on to Israel and Saudi Arabia. The commonality is that they are three of the very
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International, Middle East, USASteven Abraham The day I was ordained from rabbinical school was one of the proudest days of my life. I was thrilled to have completed my studies, knowing that my journey and learning as a rabbi was just beginning. As I entered the world of the rabbinate, I found fault with the education I had
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