Published by Al-Araby Residents of a south Lebanon village caught members affiliated to Hezbollah on Friday morning and seized a rocket launcher the group used to fire into Israel. Videos shared online showed men in the Druze village of Shwayya, in the Hasbayya border district, capturing members of the Shia paramilitary group passing through the
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Middle East
Published by The Sacramento Bee SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When Jennifer Bullard arrived at Donner Memorial State Park this week for a few days of camping with her family, she expected to be roasting under the blazing sun in the heat of summer. But what she saw after pulling into her campsite made the Truckee local’s
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USA
Published by Al-Araby An American Muslim woman who sought legal guidance to wear the hijab as part of her military uniform has sparked a policy change on religious accommodation requests in the US Air Force, local media report. In 2018, Maysaa Ouza, 29, became the first Muslim officer in the legal arm of the Air
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Pro-Israel and establishment Democrats secured a major victory on Tuesday as their favored candidate, Cuyahoga County council member Shontel Brown, handily defeated former State Sen. Nina Turner on Tuesday to become the Democratic Party’s nominee in the special election to fill the vacant Ohio 11th Congressional District seat. Brown won by securing 50.2 percent of the vote against Turner’s 44.5 percent. [JNS.org]
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Middle East, USA
The Biden administration has chosen a former White House Jewish liaison to resume the position on Thursday after months of pleading from Jewish communal organizations to name someone to the post. Chanan Weissman, 37, who currently serves the administration as director of technology and democracy at the National Security Council, was first reported by The Washington Post to have gotten the tap from U.S. President Joe Biden. [JNS.org]
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Middle East, USA
Israeli fighter jets struck terror sites in Lebanon early on Thursday, renewing Israel’s retaliatory measures following a rocket strike against Israel’s north on Wednesday. The airstrikes were in response to three rockets that were fired into northern Israel from Lebanon on Wednesday afternoon. Two fell on the Israeli side of the border, with the third landing in Lebanese territory, according to the Israeli military. [JNS.org]
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Middle East
Published by PopCrush Who plays Monica Lewinsky inImpeachment: American Crime Story? The debut teaser for Impeachment: American Crime Story was released online Wednesday (Aug. 4). The upcoming season of the limited series will tell the story of the affair between Lewinsky, then 22, and former president Bill Clinton, then 49. (In December 1998, Clinton was
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USA
Published by Reuters By Fred Greaves GREENVILLE, California (Reuters) – The main thoroughfare in a historic California gold-rush town was in smoldering ruins, officials said on Thursday, hours after the state’s largest wildfire engulfed the hamlet in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Fire crews were still working on Thursday morning to extinguish fires in Greenville, 200
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I started reading academia novels in the 1960s with Edward Albee’s tempestuous boozy Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf, then the jocular Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis, a hoot, a romp, filled with junior faculty insecurities. [Oliver B. Pollak]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Lifestyles, Oliver Pollak
By Eliana Rudee (JNS) The Guatemalan president and regional Parliamentarians convened virtually on July 29 to display a united front against antisemitism and celebrate ties with the Jewish state. At the inaugural Central America Forum for Israel, the leaders issued a joint declaration calling for a united stance against surging global antisemitism, including support for
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Published by Reuters By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) -Hardline Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi took the oath of office before parliament on Thursday, with the Islamic Republic’s clerical rulers facing growing crises at home and abroad. The mid-ranking Shi’ite cleric formally started his four-year term on Tuesday when supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei endorsed his victory
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Middle East
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — “If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.” — Adlai Stevenson “During the 1948 war,” says letter-writer Bob Holden of Los Angeles, “the Israelis expelled more than half the Palestinian population (some 700,000) and seized their land and businesses
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Bruce Ticker, Middle East, USA
By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — Is your glass half empty, half filled, or as mine is, filled with 6 ounces of water and the rest, air? Yes, “the link is what you think,” and this week’s Torah reading underscores this idea with its words, “See, this day I set before you a
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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell
By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — What a sweet ride! San Diego Rep’s end-of-summer offering, 57 Chevy, provides not only a cruise down Memory Lane, but reveals the immigrant experience of one man’s family as they assimilated to life in the United States. Cris Franco and co-writer Valerie Dunlap’s story vrooms to life in this one-man
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast