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Washington – Never Mind Trump, GOP Uniting Under Banner: ‘Never Hillary’

Washington – Never Mind Trump, GOP Uniting Under Banner: ‘Never Hillary’

  Washington – Donald Trump’s best ally in winning over skeptical Republicans is turning out to be Hillary Clinton. Having overcome a multimillion-dollar “Never Trump”… Read More ›

Doctors: Postpone or move Olympics due to Zika

Doctors: Postpone or move Olympics due to Zika

The summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro should be postponed or moved “in the name of public health” due to the widening Zika outbreak… Read More ›

Pakistani men can beat wives ‘lightly,’ Islamic council says

Pakistani men can beat wives ‘lightly,’ Islamic council says

  The leader of a Pakistani Islamic council has proposed a bill that allows husbands to “lightly beat” their wives as a form of discipline.… Read More ›

Russian President Vladimir Putin warns he’ll retaliate against NATO missiles

Russian President Vladimir Putin warns he’ll retaliate against NATO missiles

  Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia will retaliate against the placement of U.S. missiles in nearby countries such as Romania, according to Russia’s state-run… Read More ›

On Syrian border, new IDF unit will work with Syrian civilians

On Syrian border, new IDF unit will work with Syrian civilians

New liaison unit will help coordinate medical aid, dialogue in war-torn areas where Syrian regime holds no sway   The IDF is establishing a special… Read More ›

Bennett says he won’t blink first in cabinet row with Netanyahu

Bennett says he won’t blink first in cabinet row with Netanyahu

Jewish Home demands reform of security cabinet as condition for supporting Liberman as defense minister; Likud pans move as ‘political suicide’   Jewish Home party… Read More ›

Spot the difference: US slams Liberman, silent on Iran’s America-hating power broker

Spot the difference: US slams Liberman, silent on Iran’s America-hating power broker

Op-Ed: The administration keeps mum as Tehran elevates a ‘Death to America’-spouting radical, but speaks out as peace-promising Liberman joins Israel’s coalition. Go figure  … Read More ›

Abbas wants time cap for any talks with Israel

Abbas wants time cap for any talks with Israel

Speaking in Cairo, the PA president said that upcoming Paris conference must establish time caps on resolutions; he stated that Palestinians will never recognize a… Read More ›

UNIFIL: Watchtowers on the border will be used by Lebanese military only

UNIFIL: Watchtowers on the border will be used by Lebanese military only

Maj. Gen. Luciano Portolano told Ynet that new towers, which were erected in Southern Lebanon in a short amount of time and have caused concern… Read More ›

Clalit required to account for money intended for Holocaust survivors

Clalit required to account for money intended for Holocaust survivors

The Knesset Finance Committee, in a special meeting, insisted on receiving details of how much money the HMO received from Germany and how it was… Read More ›

ANALYSIS: The plot to replace Netanyahu

ANALYSIS: The plot to replace Netanyahu

As the line from Catch-22 goes: Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.   If there’s one epithet the punditry repeatedly uses about… Read More ›

The forgotten casualties: Helping Israeli society mature in the way it deals with war

The forgotten casualties: Helping Israeli society mature in the way it deals with war

“A soldier is not a mythological hero – he is a human being with pains like the rest of us.”   When Israel mourns each… Read More ›

Authorities to drill massive rocket attack this week

Authorities to drill massive rocket attack this week

Current level of readiness in home front is ‘a little better than average,’ emergency organization head says.   The National Emergency Authority will this week… Read More ›

NY Times editor calls out Trump for ignoring supporters’ anti-Semitic tweets

NY Times editor calls out Trump for ignoring supporters’ anti-Semitic tweets

“I found myself staring down a social-media timeline filled with the raw hate and anti-Semitic tropes,” says NY Times editor   JTA – A New… Read More ›

Why scientists are fighting about the origins of Yiddish – and the Jews

Why scientists are fighting about the origins of Yiddish – and the Jews

Israeli author of study tracing Ashkenazi Jews — and Yiddish — to Turkey uses Yoda to explain linguistic findings   JTA — Science has finally… Read More ›

There’s only one way for China to escape a debt-deflation trap

There’s only one way for China to escape a debt-deflation trap

  Yu Yongding, a former adviser to the People’s Bank of China, thinks that the country is missing a trick. In an opinion piece on Project Syndicate,… Read More ›

HILLARY: Donald Trump is an ‘urgent threat to our rights’

HILLARY: Donald Trump is an ‘urgent threat to our rights’

  Hillary Clinton held back little on Thursday in attacking Donald Trump on the day he officially landed enough delegates to seal the Republican nomination.… Read More ›

Mark Zuckerberg should put his money where his mouth is and throw Peter Thiel off Facebook’s board

Mark Zuckerberg should put his money where his mouth is and throw Peter Thiel off Facebook’s board

  Mark Zuckerberg says that he believes in freedom of expression. To prove it, he should ask Peter Thiel, who funded a legal campaign designed… Read More ›

Washington – Clinton Says IG Report Won’t Affect Her Presidential Bid

Washington – Clinton Says IG Report Won’t Affect Her Presidential Bid

  Washington – Hillary Clinton contends a new government audit critical of her use of a private email server as secretary of state won’t affect… Read More ›

Highlands, NJ – Boat From 19th Century Found Under New Jersey Home

Highlands, NJ – Boat From 19th Century Found Under New Jersey Home

  Highlands, NJ – Workers raising a waterfront home in New Jersey made a nautical discovery: a 44-foot wooden boat from the 19th century. The… Read More ›