Earlier this week, Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner posed with their three children, Arabella, Joseph and Theodore to celebrate Chanukah. “Happy Chanukah from our family to yours! #HappyChanukah,” wrote the first daughter in an Instagram post. Trump is serving looks in a power business suit while Kushner is in a black sweater. The kids appear to be wearing pajamas […]
Mexico City (AFP) – Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Thursday inaugurated a monument in honor of nine Mormon women and children killed in a massacre last year in the country’s north. Lopez Obrador promised to punish those responsible for the murders as he unveiled a statue paying tribute to the victims in Bavispe
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International, USA
An influential government panel of scientists unanimously endorsed Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine candidate for emergency use on Thursday, paving the way for final approval from U.S. regulators as early as this week. The Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, which advises the Food and Drug Administration on drug and inoculation approvals, voted 20-0 that the
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USA
After he had met an array of high-ranking French and international politicians in recent days, President Emmanuel Macron tested positive for Covid-19, the presidential palace said on Thursday. Macron was tested after symptoms first appeared. He would go into isolation for seven days at the presidential residence La Lanterne in Versailles, the Elysee Palace said.
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International
ATLANTA — President-elect Joe Biden cut an ad for Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock that ties the twin runoff races for control of the U.S. Senate directly to the fate of his plan to contain the coronavirus pandemic and juice the economy. The minute-long ad released Thursday outlines Biden’s plan to boost the public
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USA
Washington (AFP) – US President-elect Joe Biden has chosen congresswoman Deb Haaland to serve as the first Native American interior secretary, US media reported Thursday, in a move that could recast the department’s often troubled ties with indigenous tribes. Haaland is a first-term Democrat from New Mexico in the US Congress and a member of
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Travel and Food
Two religious leaders, Jew and Catholic, each succeeded in breaching the wall separating church and state within two days of one another. [Bruce S. Ticker]
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Bruce Ticker, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, USA
As previously reported, I had been scheduled for brain surgery on Dec. 18, but on the recommendation of an anesthesiologist at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in San Diego, the surgery will be delayed for four to six weeks. The anesthesiologist was troubled by an X-Ray showing a spot on my lower lung that suggested the possibility of pneumonia. My neurosurgeon informed me today any problem in the lungs can cause serious difficulties during an estimated six-hour surgery in which it’s necessary to insert a breathing tube will be inserted. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish Religion, Lifestyles, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Nazifying ideological opponents is a tactic that campus anti-Israel groups and individuals have long used as part of the ongoing cognitive war against Israel, in which Zionism is racism, Israelis are the new Nazis, Gaza is equivalent to the Warsaw Ghetto, Israel is committing genocide against the guiltless Palestinians (a “Holocaust in the Holy Land,” as one student event called it), and the Star of David of the Israeli flag is regularly manipulated to incorporate a swastika. [Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D]
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Richard L. Cravatts
The Israeli conductor and composer, Yoav Talmi, recently had one of his greatest recording successes, Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9, with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, made available on YouTube, per above. This recording, on the Chandos label, won the prestigious Grand Prix du Disque in 1987. [Eileen Wingard]
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
With a new secular year coming upon us, perhaps it’s time to review just what prayer is all about, the value and benefit of prayer, and why the Talmud refers to prayer as standing “…at the pinnacle of the world…” Perhaps with this deeper understanding, this year may be a new year with a new commitment to prayer. [Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D]
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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell
Joe Biden and Vice President Mike Pence are locking in plans to get vaccinated for the coronavirus — but the most powerful man in the nation hasn’t followed suit yet. Donald Trump, who is only president for 35 more days, has yet to make arrangements to get inoculated for the vicious respiratory virus, even though
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USA
PHILADELPHIA —The seven Republican congressmen from Pennsylvania who supported a lawsuit that would have thrown out their own state’s votes in the presidential race had little to say about the final outcome after the U.S. Supreme Court flatly rejected their effort and the Electoral College certified President-elect Joe Biden as the winner this week. Three
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday called US sanctions against Ankara over its purchase of a Russian missile defence system an “open attack” on the NATO member state’s sovereignty. The United States made good on months of threats to punish Turkey for buying the S-400 system under a 2017 law known as CAATSA, which
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Middle East, USA