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Driver Arrested After Car Plows Into Manhattan Protesters

Driver Arrested After Car Plows Into Manhattan Protesters

  NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who plowed her car into protesters Friday in New York City, injuring six of them, has been arrested… Read More ›

Analysis: Trump schemes next political moves after effort to overthrow democracy dead ends at Supreme Court

Analysis: Trump schemes next political moves after effort to overthrow democracy dead ends at Supreme Court

President Donald Trump’s effort to unravel democracy hit a dead end at the Supreme Court Friday night, capping five weeks in which he dragged the… Read More ›

Darrell Blocker, the Black, Jewish ‘spy whisperer,’ who could lead Biden’s CIA

Darrell Blocker, the Black, Jewish ‘spy whisperer,’ who could lead Biden’s CIA

The 28-year agency veteran, who converted to Judaism in 2017, is one of several candidates said under consideration and would be first Black, and 3rd… Read More ›

The center-left’s continued infighting risks its very existance

The center-left’s continued infighting risks its very existance

There is no lack of candidates willing to lead the camp, in fact there is suffocating overabundance of them but ego’s do not sway voters… Read More ›

‘I am Anne Frank’ demystifies hero to make Holocaust accessible to young readers

‘I am Anne Frank’ demystifies hero to make Holocaust accessible to young readers

Author Brad Meltzer says he wrote the delicate, hope-filled intro to genocide’s horrors with his own children in mind, as part of the ‘Ordinary People… Read More ›

Israel and Iran’s atomic two-step

Israel and Iran’s atomic two-step

Analysis: While Tehran probably does not want to start Mideast war before Biden takes office, the tendency of some Israeli officials to brag about even… Read More ›

Experts: Virus Numbers Could Be Erratic After Thanksgiving

Experts: Virus Numbers Could Be Erratic After Thanksgiving

  MILWAUKEE (AP) — The coronavirus testing numbers that have guided much of the nation’s response to the pandemic are likely to be erratic over… Read More ›

Why Oxford’s Covid-19 vaccine could do more for the world than other shots

Why Oxford’s Covid-19 vaccine could do more for the world than other shots

London- In the days since Oxford University and AstraZeneca unveiled the results of the partnership’s Phase 3 Covid-19 vaccine trials, a growing number of questions… Read More ›

Trump directs team to begin aiding Biden transition, but vows to keep up fight

Trump directs team to begin aiding Biden transition, but vows to keep up fight

President’s tweet comes as General Services Administration finally determines Biden is ‘apparent winner’ and will start giving him access to federal resources for transition  … Read More ›

Biden, the Mideast and future U.S challenges

Biden, the Mideast and future U.S challenges

Opinion: Many significant changes in the region will demand attention of new president; perhaps most important is Iran, and new administration will have to decide… Read More ›

Israeli jets strike Hamas targets in Gaza after rocket fire at Ashkelon

Israeli jets strike Hamas targets in Gaza after rocket fire at Ashkelon

IDF says predawn raids hit terror group’s training facility, rocket manufacturing sites, underground infrastructure   Israeli jets and helicopters carried out airstrikes in the Gaza… Read More ›

US coronavirus deaths pass 250,000 as hospitals overwhelmed with cases

US coronavirus deaths pass 250,000 as hospitals overwhelmed with cases

Amid surge, number of hospitalized has doubled in past month, many hospitals converting chapels, cafeterias into patient treatment areas, warning patients will be turned away… Read More ›

Israel demands Amanpour apologize for comparing Kristallnacht and Trump

Israel demands Amanpour apologize for comparing Kristallnacht and Trump

On November 13 CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour compared Kristallnacht to President Trump’s term.   CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour’s comparison of US President Donald Trump to… Read More ›

The Department of Homeland Security breaks from Trump and his baseless claims of election fraud, calling this year’s presidential race ‘the most secure in American history’

The Department of Homeland Security breaks from Trump and his baseless claims of election fraud, calling this year’s presidential race ‘the most secure in American history’

  The Department of Homeland Security said the 2020 presidential election was “the most secure in American history.” The statement contradicts President Donald Trump’s baseless… Read More ›

Can Jews on the Right, Left find common ground? – opinion

Can Jews on the Right, Left find common ground? – opinion

Every Jew should commit: for each antisemite I denounce who seems to come from a group I truly hate, let me also denounce a Jew-hater… Read More ›

Joe Biden defeats Donald Trump, elected 46th president of the USA

Joe Biden defeats Donald Trump, elected 46th president of the USA

Kamala Harris will make history and become the first woman to serve as the Vice President of the United States.   WASHINGTON – Joe Biden… Read More ›

In Israel, Biden could differ with Netanyahu on Iran and settlements

In Israel, Biden could differ with Netanyahu on Iran and settlements

While president-elect describes himself as a Zionist and friend to nine Israeli prime ministers, friction could arise between a Biden White House and Netanyahu, who… Read More ›

Republicans Retain Power In States Despite Democratic Push

Republicans Retain Power In States Despite Democratic Push

  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — After a costly and intense political battle for control of state capitols, the composition of state legislatures and governors’… Read More ›

Biden moves closer to the presidency as Trump launches legal challenges

Biden moves closer to the presidency as Trump launches legal challenges

Former Vice President Joe Biden has moved to within 17 electoral votes of claiming the presidency by winning the state of Michigan, CNN projects, in… Read More ›

Israeli Hasidic Rabbi Denounces ‘Those Jews Who Snitch’ On Jews Who Flout Pandemic Guidelines

Israeli Hasidic Rabbi Denounces ‘Those Jews Who Snitch’ On Jews Who Flout Pandemic Guidelines

  JERUSALEM (JTA) – The leader of a major Hasidic sect in Israel denounced those who inform on other Jews for violating school closure orders… Read More ›