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Washington – Stepping Up Feud, Trump Assails Cummings As ‘racist’

Washington – Stepping Up Feud, Trump Assails Cummings As ‘racist’

Washington – Upping a feud with an influential black lawmaker, President Donald Trump on Sunday assailed Rep. Elijah Cummings as a “racist” over the “rodent-infested… Read More ›

Trump announces John Ratcliffe will be new Director of National Intelligence following reports

Trump announces John Ratcliffe will be new Director of National Intelligence following reports

President Donald Trump announced Sunday that Rep. John Ratcliffe will be replacing Dan Coats as Trump’s Director of National Intelligence. The New York Times reported… Read More ›

London – 5 Jewish Things To Know About Boris Johnson

London – 5 Jewish Things To Know About Boris Johnson

  London – No matter their political affiliation, all sides can agree that Boris Johnson, who has secured his Conservative Party’s vote to become the… Read More ›

Diaspora Affairs: The Reality of Antisemitism in France

Diaspora Affairs: The Reality of Antisemitism in France

‘The Jerusalem Post’ visits Paris with the Jewish Agency and takes an in-depth look at the state of the Jews in France   Antisemitism in… Read More ›

Palestinians seeking to disengage economically from Israel

Palestinians seeking to disengage economically from Israel

Aiming to end the reliance on Israel and counter the U.S. plan for the region, the Palestinian prime minister is looking for trading partners and… Read More ›

Kyoto Animation studio: suspected arson attack in Japan leaves 23 feared dead

Kyoto Animation studio: suspected arson attack in Japan leaves 23 feared dead

  Tokyo – At least 23 people are feared dead and 36 injured in a suspected arson attack at a renowned animation studio in the… Read More ›

Charlottesville, VA – Neo-Nazi Gets Second Life Sentence In Murder Of Protester In Virginia

Charlottesville, VA – Neo-Nazi Gets Second Life Sentence In Murder Of Protester In Virginia

  Charlottesville, VA -An avowed white supremacist was sentenced to life in prison plus 419 years Monday for deliberately driving his car into a crowd… Read More ›

Man confesses to murdering US scientist Suzanne Eaton in Crete

Man confesses to murdering US scientist Suzanne Eaton in Crete

Athens – A 27-year-old man has confessed to killing US scientist Suzanne Eaton on the Greek island of Crete, a police spokesperson told CNN Monday.… Read More ›

What’s Kamala Harris’s Record on Israel?

What’s Kamala Harris’s Record on Israel?

Washington Affairs: Opposes BDS, supports rejoining the nuclear deal   WASHINGTON – Just three weeks ago, no one gave Senator Kamala Harris of California a… Read More ›

Residents of the border give visiting MKs an earful on hardships

Residents of the border give visiting MKs an earful on hardships

Local business people and community leaders stressed the difficulties are both financial and emotional while the government does not respond to their needs The Knesset… Read More ›

New York – Biden Says He Would Keep US-Israel Relationship ‘ironclad’ And Rejoin The Iran Deal As President

New York – Biden Says He Would Keep US-Israel Relationship ‘ironclad’ And Rejoin The Iran Deal As President

  New York –  In a talk laying out the foreign policy principles he would hew to as president, Joe Biden said the United States’… Read More ›

Trump blasts Bitcoin and says cryptocurrencies, including Facebook’s Libra, should be ‘subject to all banking regulations’

Trump blasts Bitcoin and says cryptocurrencies, including Facebook’s Libra, should be ‘subject to all banking regulations’

  President Donald Trump railed against cryptocurrencies and specifically called out Bitcoin and Libra, Facebook’s new cryptocurrency that is backed by companies like Uber and… Read More ›

Boris Johnson refuses to rule out firing ambassador who criticized Trump

Boris Johnson refuses to rule out firing ambassador who criticized Trump

London – Boris Johnson, the favorite to succeed Theresa May as British Prime Minister, has refused to rule out firing the UK ambassador to Washington… Read More ›

If you build it who will come?

If you build it who will come?

An Olympic village on the ruins of the abandoned Israeli settlement of Netzarim is an ambitious, some might say fantastical project while Gazan homes have… Read More ›

Longtime director of Chicago’s Jewish federation hands empire over to his son

Longtime director of Chicago’s Jewish federation hands empire over to his son

As 40-year head of the Jewish United Fund, Steve Nasatir helped bring in $8 billion from the city’s 300,000 Jews   JTA — Before he stepped… Read More ›

Silent protests get you nowhere in Israel

Silent protests get you nowhere in Israel

Opinion: We saw how the protests of the disabled community slipped from the public agenda the minute they stopped blocking main roads, how the quiet… Read More ›

Chinese government loads surveillance app onto phones of visitors to Xinjiang: report

Chinese government loads surveillance app onto phones of visitors to Xinjiang: report

Hong Kong – China’s far-reaching security network is targeting tourists, with border guards secretly installing a surveillance app onto the phones of visitors to Xinjiang,… Read More ›

Our extortion arrangement with Hamas

Our extortion arrangement with Hamas

Opinion: Israel might think its strong, but Gaza Strip leaders know we’re as squeezable as ever, especially as elections near yet again; a strong country… Read More ›

Many sticks, few carrots: Trump’s Palestinian policy

Many sticks, few carrots: Trump’s Palestinian policy

Since taking office on the U.S. president has been consistent in his views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, adopting Netanyahu’s positions and thereby ending the American… Read More ›

Gantz: Deal to end Gaza arson attacks shows Netanyahu ‘filling Hamas’s balloons’

Gantz: Deal to end Gaza arson attacks shows Netanyahu ‘filling Hamas’s balloons’

Former top defense officials under the PM assail him over the agreement; IDF nabs Gazan carrying knife who crossed the border   Blue and White… Read More ›