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Life Those Times Golda Meir Passed Out — It Didn’t Make Her a Weak Leader
Despite the media-inspired doom and gloom over Hillary Clinton’s stumble at the 9/11 memorial ceremony in New York on Sunday, passing out is not necessarily an obstacle to a woman becoming a national leader. The historical record shows that Golda Meir, Israel’s first and only woman prime minister, passed out at least twice before taking…
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Breaking News Israeli Leaders Call for Referendum as 50th Anniversary of Occupation Looms
A group of former government ministers and members of Knesset launched a broad public campaign on Monday, calling for a referendum on the future of the territories as the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Six-Day War approaches. Several civic organizations, along with intellectual figures and cultural and academic leaders have also joined the initiative. Those…
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Breaking News Trump Campaign CEO Bannon Didn’t Want Daughters in School With Jews, Ex-Wife Says
An ex-wife of Donald Trump’s new campaign CEO, Stephen Bannon, said he made anti-Semitic remarks during a fight over the education of their two daughters. According to court papers dated to 2007, ex-wife Mary Louise Piccard said Bannon didn’t want their daughters to go to an elite Los Angeles school because he “didn’t want the…
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The Schmooze Mel Gibson Tells Glenn Beck: Jews Stole My Jesus Film in Smear Campaign
Is Mel Gibson still blaming his problems on the Jews? That seems to be what Glenn Beck said last week on his radio show — and what a staffer wrote in a post on the conservative talk radio host’s website. Beck said Gibson told him the “Jewish People” had stolen his movie “The Passion of…
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Breaking News Jerusalem Day March Passes Through Muslim Quarter With Less Violence and Racism Than Past Years
The Jerusalem Day flag march in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City took off in relative calm on Sunday evening, following earlier concerns of friction between Jewish revelers and local Arab residents. No altercations were reported, and a few Muslim-owned shops on Hagai Street, a main thoroughfare in the Old City, remained opened….
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Breaking News Israeli Woman Admits Concocting Palestinian Rape Story That Benjamin Netanyahu Called ‘Horrific Crime’
A Jewish Israeli woman who claimed to have been raped by a Palestinian minor while another man filmed the incident in Tel Aviv has told the police that she lied about the allegations. The woman, who is mentally challenged, said that she was in a consensual relationship with the minor, and that her family fabricated…
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Breaking News Donald Trump’s Son Claims Anger Over Iran Deal Spurred Dad’s White House Run
The Iranian nuclear deal was one of the main factors that influenced Donald Trump’s decision to run for president in 2016, his son, Eric Trump, said on Sunday. “I think, honestly, the Iran nuclear deal was one of the things that made him jump into the race,” Eric Trump told John Catsimatidis on the “Cats…
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Breaking News WATCH: Israeli Police Caught on Tape Brutally Beating Arab Supermarket Worker
Israeli police officers in civilian clothes savagely assaulted an Arab supermarket worker in central Tel Aviv on Sunday after he refused to identify himself because he didn’t know who they were, according to eyewitnesses. The incident occurred on Sunday afternoon at the Super Yuda supermarket on Ibn Gabirol Street, opposite the Tel Aviv municipality. The…
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