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Daily Archives: June 25, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un at the Capella Hotel in Singapore on June 12, 2018. Photo courtesy of White House/Wikimedia Commons.

Wanted: A Plan for Nuclear Diplomacy

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Trump will have no remaining choice but to “live with” a nuclear North Korea, and the United States will finally have to focus on meaningfully tangible and authentically realistic goals. It’s time to talk substance...

Countering the Islamic Republic’s Divisive Tactics: Freedom For Iran Rally in Paris As An...

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One of the penchants of the Islamic Republic has been its widespread success in exploiting divisions between various ethnic, social, and political groups inside Iran (as well as their activists outside the country) to...
A poster of “When the Smoke Clears,” a new film produced and recently released by Jerusalem U.

Documentary on wounded Israeli vets screens for PTSD Awareness Day, Tisha B’Av

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The latest film produced by Jerusalem U, “When the Smoke Clears: A Story of Brotherhood, Resilience and Hope,” has screened in 50 Jewish communities around the United States this month, culminating in PTSD Awareness Day...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Turkey’s President Erdoğan wins re-election, cementing his firm grip on power

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) emerged victorious in the country’s first-ever dual presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday, giving the Turkish leader sweeping executive powers and further...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen eating soup during late-night votes at the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament on November 18, 2015, during the state budget vote for 2015-16. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Bill to exempt Israeli prime ministers from certain taxes passes its first reading

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A bill that would exempt Israeli prime ministers from paying taxes on various personal assets passed its first plenum reading in the Knesset Finance Committee on Monday. The legislation advanced as Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu...

Egyptian cleric: ‘Armenian genocide is a lie; Muslims never perpetrated a racial massacre’

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Egyptian cleric Sheikh Sharif Abadi said that throughout history, the Muslims never fought peoples, never conquered in order to collect the jizya poll tax, never forced people to convert to Islam and never perpetrated a racial...
Steven Munchin, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, and Ivanka Trump, daughter of U.S. President Donald Trump, reveal a dedication plaque at the official opening ceremony of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Trump on US embassy move: ‘I receive more praise from evangelicals than from Jews’

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U.S. President Donald Trump has received tremendous support from Jews for his decision to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, but even more so from evangelical Christians, according to an interview...
P.S. 132, the Juan Pablo Duarte School, located at 185 Wadsworth Avenue between West 182nd and 183rd Streets in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

New York City schools to provide kosher food as part of new pilot program

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A $1 million pilot program has been included in New York City’s new budget to provide kosher and halal lunches in public schools for the upcoming academic year. U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens, N.Y.) hailed...
British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn Credit: Garry Knight via Wikimedia Commons.

UK opposition leader Corbyn, says his government would recognize Palestinian state

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The leader of the British government’s opposition Labour Party said a government under his control would recognize a Palestinian state. Posting to Twitter during a visit to Jordanian refugee camps on the border with Syria,...
Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces during a raid of the Israeli army in the West Bank village of al-Am’ari near Ramallah on May 28, 2018. Photo by Flash90.

May terror attacks against Israelis highest in 2.5 years

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May logged the highest number of terror attacks against Israelis in nearly three years, with an almost 40 percent hike in April, according to a monthly report by the Israel Security Agency. Of the 365...