President Donald Trump on Friday is expected to sign an executive order that could open large parts of the Pacific, Arctic and Atlantic oceans to new oil and gas drilling, a prospect that elicited a fierce backlash in California and elsewhere even before details of the order were clear. The move, which is certain to […]
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USAWASHINGTON — The Senate voted to confirm Alexander Acosta as labor secretary Thursday, elevating the Florida law school dean and former U.S. attorney for Florida’s southern district to fill one of the last of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet-level vacancies. The 60-38vote largely fell along party lines, though eight Democrats — including Sens. Bill Nelson of
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USAIsabella Lövin also says UNRWA ‘quickly and reliably deals with alleged cases of violent extremism and anti-Semitism’ By Raphael Ahren Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation Isabella Lövin speaking in parliament at a debate about Stockholm’s assistance to Ramallah, March 4, 2016 (Screen grab YouTube) Sweden’s deputy prime minister this week equated Israeli and Palestinian
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International, Middle EastPresident Donald Trump is likely to use his upcoming trip to Israel to announce the relocation of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a senior Republican official said Thursday. On Wednesday it was reported that President Trump is planning a trip to Israel, his first ever to the Jewish state, and is in
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Middle East, USARepublicans fortified their growing bond with Israel by launching Thursday the Congressional Israel Victory Caucus, a coalition aimed at promoting widespread recognition of the Jewish state’s right to exist as a predicate to peace. “We founded this caucus primarily on one single irrefutable principle, and that is first and foremost, Israel has a fundamental right
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Middle East, USASecurity forces questioning suspect, who reportedly says he wanted to live in the Jewish state By Alexander Fulbright View of Lebanon as seen from the Israeli side of the border near Rosh Hanikra, in northwestern Israel, November 10, 2016 (Doron Horowitz/Flash90) A Lebanese man was arrested in northern Israel on Thursday after illegally crossing the
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Middle EastThe controversial president of the United Kingdom’s student union umbrella organization on Wednesday lost her bid to be reelected, Haaretz reported. Malia Bouattia, the outgoing president of the National Union of Students (NUS), was found guilty of misconduct after a 2015 internal investigation into anti-Semitic comments she made during a speech. In the past, Bouattia
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USAPresident Donald Trump is reportedly planning to visit Israel on May 22nd, his first trip to the Jewish state. According to a report Thursday afternoon by a Walla News correspondent, the president is planning a one-night stay in Israel, returning to the US on May 23rd. An Israeli source told Walla that President Trump would
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Middle East, USAEducation Minister Naftali Bennett on Thursday evening won the primaries of the leadership of the Jewish Home party, and will continue to head the party over the next several years. Bennett won 80.3% of the votes. 15,701 out of 30,734 (50.67%) of the members of the Jewish Home party exercised their right to vote in
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –David Amos, who is best known to the Jewish community as the conductor of the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra and as a music columnist for San Diego Jewish World, on Thursday evening received a plaque naming an orchestra pit at Patrick Henry High School in his honor, and
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Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego CountyLA JOLLA, California (Press Release) — The University of California San Diego will host His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama at a 9 a.m. public event June 16, where he will speak about “Embracing the Beauty of Diversity in our World” to an estimated 25,000 attendees on the campus’s RIMAC Field. On May 1 at 10
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International, San Diego CalendarLook at It, but Not at Him! Look at Him, but Not at It! By Rabbi Yaakov Marks SAN DIEGO — Tzoraas is a misunderstood phenomenon. The Torah describes it as various discolorations that can happen to clothing, houses, or a person’s body. A trained Cohen examined the object or person and depending on the
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Jewish ReligionFor background on this fanciful case, please see https://www.sdjewishworld.com/2017/04/19/just-kidding-he-wont-return-my-chametz/ By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — In sharply contested decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court has just ruled in the celebrated Moe v Donald case (“he won’t return my chametz”) and several related matters, dating back to Pesach a year ago. By a 5-4 vote, the
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & SatireWashington (dpa) – US President Donald Trump said Thursday that a “fair deal for all” was possible after he agreed with the leaders of Mexico and Canada to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). “I decided rather than terminating NAFTA, which would be a pretty big, you know, shock to the system, we
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