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Daily Archives: September 27, 2019

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Credit: Flickr.

In Britain, Boris is opening the door for Jeremy

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Jeremy Corbyn’s prospects of becoming Britain’s next leader received an important boost last Friday, when the head of the Scottish National Party, Nicola Sturgeon, intimated that her party would back him as prime minister...

Delving into Moroccan multiculturalism

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There is no doubt that Morocco occupies a strategic position in its region. As a matter of fact, it sits on the crossroad of many cultures, religions and civilizations, and has through centuries become...

Things Fall Apart; The Centre Cannot Hold….

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Core  legal arguments to preserve, protect and defend the United States from the presidency of Donald J. Trump Whatever the still-expanding bill of particulars, Donald Trump’s principles of governance remain crudely defiling  in their entirety.Most...
U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Nov. 14, 2018. Credit: Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian.

On pre-holiday call, Trump highlights exiting Iran deal, backing Holocaust education, battling anti-Semitism

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In the annual call on Friday ahead of the Rosh Hashanah holiday between Jewish communal leaders and the president of the United States, U.S. President Donald Trump recalled a friend telling him that neither...
A woman giving the OK hand gesture. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

ADL: OK hand gesture now considered a hate symbol

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The OK hand gesture is now a hate symbol, declared the Anti-Defamation League on Thursday. This development was part of the ADL expanding and updating its list of hateful symbols. The gesture has been adopted by the far-right,...
Steps outside of the San Diego Jewish Academy. Credit: Courtesy.

If you lower it, will they come? The high costs of Jewish day school

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When students returned to the San Diego Jewish Academy just a few weeks ago, they were greeted not only by new teachers, but new classmates as well. “For the coming school year, we have a...
Worshippers gather for the ritual of Tisha B'Av at the Wall Western in the Old City of Jerusalem early morning Aug. 9, 2011. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Jewish population worldwide hits 14.8 million ahead of Rosh Hashanah

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The global Jewish population hovers around 14.8 million ahead of Rosh Hashanah, which marks the start of the Jewish new year 5780, according to estimates published by Professor Sergio Della Pergola of the Hebrew...
Rabbi Avraham Laber, co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Southern Rensselaer County in New York, uses smoke to calm honey bees before opening a hive. Photo by Carin M. Smilk.

A bee-keeping rabbi explains what the buzz is all about

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Human instinct may be to swat, run away or do a frantic little dance to avoid contact with bees, but like most small living creatures, they have more to fear from us than we...
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. Credit: Kremlin.ru

Pro-Israel Columbia student questions Malaysian premier about Holocaust denial

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A member of the college campus group Students Supporting Israel confronted Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad during his controversial Columbia University speech on Wednesday about the leader questioning the number of Jews killed in...
Italian winemaker Vina Lunardelli's controversial wine bottles, part of a “Historical Series,” features pictures of Hitler, Nazi slogans and pictures of notorious SS members, such as Heinrich Himmler. Source: Twitter.

Jewish groups demand Italy take action against wine bottles saluting Nazis

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Italy is facing renewed backlash for allowing the continued sale of wine bottles that feature Adolf Hitler’s face and Nazi slogans on its labels. The controversial wine bottles, produced by Italian winemaker Vina Lunardelli as...