Tag Archive for "United States"

Jewish Groups Mourn Passing of Conservative Commentator Charles Krauthammer

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June 22, 2018 4:08 pm

Charles Krauthammer. Photo: Courtesy Fox News / Handout via Reuters. JNS.org – American Jewish groups mourned the passing of renowned...

Sources: Yemen’s Houthis Indicate Willingness to Hand Over Port to UN

Reuters and Algemeiner Staff
June 22, 2018 4:03 pm

Hodeidah port’s cranes are pictured from a nearby shantytown in Hodeidah, Yemen, June 16, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Abduljabbar Zeyad / F...

Jerusalem – Jerusalem Backlash Casts Shadow Over Eurovision Contest

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June 22, 2018 3:41 pm

Jerusalem – When the United States recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Israelis hoped other countries would follow suit. I...

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Geneve – After US, Israel Also Backs Away From UN Human Rights Body

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June 22, 2018 3:41 pm

Geneva – Diplomats said Friday that Israel has temporarily reduced its participation with the U.N.’s main human rights body, day...

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Syria’s Assad Defies US, Presses Southwest Offensive With Barrel Bomb Attacks

Reuters and Algemeiner Staff
June 22, 2018 1:08 pm

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad attends an interview with a Greek newspaper in Damascus, in this handout released May 10, 2018. Photo: SANA...

Pulitzer-Winning Conservative Jewish Commentator Charles Krauthammer Dies at 68

Reuters and Algemeiner Staff
June 22, 2018 1:03 am

Charles Krauthammer. Photo: Screenshot. Pulitzer Prize winner Charles Krauthammer, who gave up a psychiatric career to become one of the lea...

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South African Trade Group, BDS Activists Promote Palestinian Refugees With Photo of Jewish Refugees From Arab Lands

Shiri Moshe
June 22, 2018 1:02 am

Jewish refugees at an Israeli transit camp in 1950. Photo: Jewish Agency for Israel via Wikipedia commons. South African activists and the ...

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End the Palestinian Diplomatic Offensive Against Israel

Andrew E. Harrod
June 21, 2018 10:00 pm

Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy is premature until Palestinians accept the Jewish state,” Middle East Forum (MEF) President Daniel Pipes h...

YU Counterpoint Israel Program Celebrates Its Bar Mitzvah Year

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June 21, 2018 7:21 pm

Thirteenth Annual Service-Learning Initiative to Serve 200 Israeli Youth at Risk in Arad, Dimona and Kiryat Malachi For the 13th consecutive...

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No Endemic Bias Against Israel At UN, Russian Foreign Minister Claims

Ben Cohen
June 21, 2018 4:35 pm

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a press conference in Moscow. Photo: Reuters / Sergei Karpukhin. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei L...

US Identifies North Korea Missile Test Site It Says Kim Committed to Destroy

Reuters and Algemeiner Staff
June 21, 2018 4:35 pm

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Photo: Korean Central News Agency / via Reuters. The missile engine test site that President Donald Trump s...

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Israeli Company Wins First Prize of $100,000 in Counter-Terrorism Competition

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June 21, 2018 4:34 pm

Cardioscale portable arm cuff. Photo: JNS.org. JNS.org – An Israeli medical technology company won first prize in an international co...

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Assad Presses Assault in Southwest, Civilians Flee

Reuters and Algemeiner Staff
June 21, 2018 4:34 pm

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad attends an interview with a Greek newspaper in Damascus, in this handout released May 10, 2018. Photo: SANA...

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US Envoy Slams Palestinian Leadership for ‘Hypocrisy’

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June 21, 2018 4:34 pm

US Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt addresses the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) on Tu...

Kushner Meets With Egypt’s Sisi About Israeli-Palestinian Peace Plan

Reuters and Algemeiner Staff
June 21, 2018 4:34 pm

Jared Kushner. Photo: Reuters / Lucas Jackson. White House adviser Jared Kushner met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Thursda...

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Killings shouldn’t be necessary for world to hear Gaza voices

Pam Bailey
June 21, 2018 1:33 pm

Living conditions in the Gaza Strip are, to put it bluntly, what most civilized people would consider “unlivable.” But this state of aff...

Don’t Separate Families at the Border — But Don’t Expropriate the Holocaust Either

Abraham Cooper
June 21, 2018 1:32 pm

The entrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. As an Orthodox rabbi, it is not for me to comment on US Attorney Gen...

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Germany’s Merkel Calls for Solutions to Iran’s ‘Aggressive Tendencies’

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June 21, 2018 1:32 pm

German Chancellor Angela Merkel reviews an honor guard upon her arrival at the Royal Palace in Amman, Jordan, June 21, 2018. Photo: Reuters ...

WJC applauds United States’ UNHRC withdrawl

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June 21, 2018 7:45 am

The World Jewish Congress has applauded the United States’ decision to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council over its obse...

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US mulls plans to hold Congressional hearing on the Muslim Brotherhood

June 21, 2018 7:36 am

The United States is mulling plans to hold a Congressional hearing on the Muslim Brotherhood, sometime between July and early August before ...

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New York – US To Require More Screening Of Powders In Carry-on Baggage

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June 21, 2018 12:59 am

New York – U.S. security officials will require more screening of powdered substances in carry-on bags on international flights headed...

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Trump Backs Down, Signs Order to End Family Separations at US Border

Reuters and Algemeiner Staff
June 20, 2018 10:13 pm

A child detention facility built by the Trump administration near the Mexican border in Tornillo, Texas, June 19, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Mik...

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White House Adviser Kushner, Saudi Crown Prince Meet on Israeli-Palestinian Peace Effort

Reuters and Algemeiner Staff
June 20, 2018 10:13 pm

Jared Kushner. Photo: Reuters / Lucas Jackson. US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, met o...

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“Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story”

Rachael Stone, Kevin Pollack, Shayna Strum, and Sam Gottlieb, FELLOWS, CENTER FOR NEAR EAST POLICY RESEARCH
June 20, 2018 7:29 pm

“Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story” (2012), directed by Jonathan Gruber and Ari Daniel Pinchot, is a moving documentary about Operatio...

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US Jewish and Pro-Israel Groups Hail American Withdrawal From UN Human Rights Council

Algemeiner Staff
June 20, 2018 7:25 pm

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley delivers remarks to the press together with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, announcing th...

Trump’s Support of Israel Shouldn’t Excuse Child Separation Policy in Jewish Eyes, Former ADL Chief Says

Ben Cohen
June 20, 2018 7:25 pm

Salvadoran migrant Epigmenio Centeno holds the hand of his three-year old son Steven Atonay after being deported from the US to Mexico. Phot...

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The Latest: EU says it’s committed to Human Rights Council

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June 20, 2018 6:01 pm

This is a Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2008 file photo, showing a general view of the Human Rights Room at the European headquarters of the United Natio...

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US leaves UN Human Rights Council, a ‘cesspool’ of bias against Israel

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June 20, 2018 4:26 pm

Other news, opinion US withdraws from ‘cesspool’ UN rights body AFP 10 June — The United States withdrew from the United N...

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UK Jewish Students, Advocates Say Labour Encouraging Campus Antisemitism

Shiri Moshe
June 20, 2018 4:25 pm

British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Photo: Reuters / Pierre Albouy. Concerns over antisemitism affect the university selection proces...

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US quits UN Human Rights Council, as it faces criticism over detention of children at borders

June 20, 2018 2:01 pm

The United States withdrew from the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday accusing it of a “chronic bias against Israel,̶...

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Panmunjom, North Korea – On North Side Of DMZ, It’s Change In The Air

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June 20, 2018 1:12 pm

Panmunjom, North Korea – Lt. Col. Hwang Myong Jin has been a guide on the northern side of the Demilitarized Zone that divides the two...

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US withdraws from UN Human Rights Council

June 20, 2018 7:27 am

The United States withdrew from the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday accusing it of a “chronic bias against Israel,&rdqu...

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