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Rod Rosenstein Faces Senate Grilling Over Russia In Justice Department Confirmation Hearing
A Maryland lawyer tapped to fill the No. 2 position at the U.S. Justice Department was expected to face tough questions from a Senate panel on Tuesday about how he would handle an investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Rod Rosenstein, nominated by President Donald Trump to be deputy attorney general, would…
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Wave Of Threats Spur Chicago JCC’s And Cemeteries To Beef Up Security
This city’s share of the national spike in anti-Semitic incidents has been notable: Two JCCs have been evacuated because of bomb threats, and both the Chicago Loop Synagogue and the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center have been vandalized and defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti, among other events. But after seeing the desecration of two Jewish…
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Jewish Groups Slam Trump’s New ‘Muslim Ban’ Executive Order
(JTA) — Jewish groups condemned an executive order issued by President Donald Trump banning new visas for citizens from six Muslim-majority countries. Trump on Monday signed an order blocking for 90 days new visas for citizens from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. Iraq, which was included in an earlier version of the order that was blocked by…
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Knesset Votes 46-28 To Bar Foreigners Calling For Boycott Of Israel
(JTA) — Israel enacted a law banning entry to foreigners who publicly call for boycotting the Jewish state or its settlements. The Knesset passed the law by a vote of 46-28 on Monday, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported. The ban applies to any foreigner “who knowingly issues a public call for boycotting Israel that, given the content of the…
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Trump Phone Call Interrupts Netanyahu During Corruption Interview With Police
A phone call from U.S. President Donald Trump interrupted a police inquiry into Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was on Monday being questioned for a fourth time over suspicions of corruption. Not long after sitting down with police investigators at his residence in Jerusalem, one aide said, Netanyahu briefly excused himself to speak with…
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Ukrainian Historian Who Praised Nazi Collaborator Invited To Holocaust Conference
(JTA) — Ukrainian Jews protested the attendance at an international symposium on the Holocaust by a state historian who praised a Nazi collaborator whose troops killed Jews. Eduard Dolinsky, director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, last week condemned the planned attendance of Volodymyr Vyatrovych, director of Ukrainian National Memory Institute, at a conference planned for Paris this…
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Avigdor Liberman Heads To Washington For Talks With Team Trump
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman will arrive in Washington D.C. for meetings with senior Trump administration officials. Liberman will leave Israel for the United States on Monday evening, his office said in a statement. He is scheduled to meet with Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, and Secretary of…
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Israel Defeats South Korea To Kick Off World Baseball Classic
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Team Israel defeated Korea in its first game of the finals of the World Baseball Classic. Israel on Monday in Seoul topped Korea 2-1 in the 10th inning. Team Israel had 8 hits to Korea’s 7 in the hard-fought game. The Israeli team is scheduled to play the team from Chinese Taipei…
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Netanyahu Quizzed Again In Corruption Case — Rivals Eye ‘Post-Bibi’ Era
Police are expected to question Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a fourth time on Monday in a corruption investigation that has prompted political rivals to start looking to a “post-Bibi” Israel. Israeli TV and newspapers, citing unnamed sources, said Netanyahu would be questioned later in the day. A police spokeswoman declined to confirm the reports,…
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No Sabra No Problem When It Comes To Israel’s Baseball Team
To players on Team Israel, it doesn’t matter that they don’t live in Israel and play ball in the United States, don’t speak Hebrew and haven’t visited the country until recently. For the World Baseball Classic, they are representing Jewish fans worldwide. “It’s more than just Israel,” Ty Kelly, who is on the New York…
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Lawmakers Visit Potential Sites For New U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A group of members of the U.S. House of Representatives visited Israel for one day, during which they were to visit possible sites in Jerusalem for the American Embassy. The delegation of lawmakers was from the House Subcommittee for National Security, part of the House Oversight Committee. The lawmakers reportedly met Sunday…
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