By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Audience members at a town-hall event get a bit of a back-and-forth about past comments from Democratic nominee Gretchen Whitmer and her running mate, Garlin Gilchrist.
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From pro-Israel Christian, Salazar became a bona fide anti-Zionist Jewish activist.
Elections are currently scheduled for November 5, 2019, unless elections are held.
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The reported cost of each luxury 1,335 sq. ft., 5-room apartment, will be only one million shekel – $276,000.
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He referred specifically to an attack on the British Jewish community and a defense of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's dubious stance on anti-Semitism.
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Fooled us once, shame on us. There won't be a second fooling.
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The eldest of 14 children, Rashida Tlaib was born to working-class Palestinian immigrants in Detroit, Michigan.
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Everybody in the place was careful not to mention Israel or Jews.
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Theoretically, an Arab candidate for Mayor of Jerusalem should have a clear path to the job – should he be able to maximize the support of eligible Arab voters.
Minister Ze'ev Elkin emigrated to Israel from the Ukraine in 1990.
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Azaria, for her part, argued that she had been receiving calls from her Haredi supporters who were "shocked by the act and expressed their disgust."
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"You are a philosopher, you only know how to talk and leave the doing to the rest of us," Kahlon told Netanyahu bitterly.
Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo made history twice in Mexico City, today.
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Netanyahu told the three Haredi coalition leaders at the meeting, who insist they oppose the draft law in its present form: "I do not want new elections, but I'm not afraid of elections, and if there are elections, I'll do fine."
Azaria previously served as Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem in 2013.
Four leading candidates for Jerusalem mayor rejected a demand Monday by Health Minister Yaakov Litzman to close the city’s Shuk Mahane Yehuda open air market at night.
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The satisfaction with Netanyahu and Liberman is reflected in the survey's snapshot of the election results, if said elections had been held today.
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only 28 Israelis installed the application used to transfer their personal information -- dragging along their 47,014 friends.
By Alex Traiman
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton admitted his unsuccessful efforts to help Shimon Peres defeat Benjamin Netanyahu during Israel's 1996 general election.
Barkat announced he won't be running for a third term as Jerusalem's mayor.
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Voter turnout was particularly low at the computerized 130 polling stations throughout the country.
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Adina Bar-Shalom attacks Shas chairman Aryeh Deri: "He has changed since he entered prison, completely deteriorated."
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If the Gerrer Rebbe sticks to his guns about running the full vote on the bill to end before ever tending to the budget bill, it would effectively spell the end of Netanyahu's coalition government.
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Putin claimed Russia did not possess the tools nor the will to meddle in elections.
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Orly Levy-Abekasis, 45, is the daughter of former Likud Minister and kingmaker David Levy, who championed the downtrodden Jews from Arab countries.
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The clash over the bill is reaching the point where the gloves would be pulled off and the political fisticuffs could start.
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The Likud is projected to lose six seats, coming in second with only 24 and with a trail of corruption—alleged and proven, that would likely sentence it to a term on the opposition benches.
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With things being as bad as they are for President Trump, we should probably be looking forward to his speedy replacement by a tried and true friend of Israel, Vice President Mike Pence.
"In five separate polls published last week, we are gaining strength in every poll of right-wing voters.”
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The Joint Arab List would retain its power with 13 seats, followed by Habayit Hayehudi which would rise from 8 to 12 seats.
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Sheldon was in it for his love for Bibi, but Bibi was ready to cast him aside like yesterday's news.
Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party does not enjoy support from the PA's population, and they would be quickly replaced by the Islamists and other terror groups if given the chance.
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By 4 PM, voter turnout was at 274,152, or 35.3% of the 787,386 eligible registered voters.
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MK Oren Hazan invited MK Rosenthal to a chess match.
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A lot is expected to happen on Monday, May Day: union members and protesters are marching against Le Pen in Paris, and the Front National party is holding its annual gathering to honor Joan of Arc.
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The presumably lackluster pro-Bennett voters could be outnumbered by pro-Branski voters; the first group may not bother to show at the polls, the other will be charged up.
"Jewish landlords ... are at the forefront of pushing black and Latino people out of Upper Manhattan," he charged.
Supreme Leader Ali Khameini opposes the Ahmedinejad candidacy, but he plans to run anyway.
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Out of the 150,000 Jews living in France, 76,000 were murdered after French authorities shipped them away.
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'We made it clear that any approval of a freeze, including outside the blocks, is a red line for us and we would not continue to sit in the government in such a case.'
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'Jews remain the most targeted faith community, both numerically and proportionally, accounting for 11.4% of all hate crime and 53% of all religious hate crime.'
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Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, Trump's national security adviser, implored the president to stop using 'radical Islamic terrorism, because terrorists who call themselves Muslims aren't following the teachings of Islam.
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While in all of 2016 the municipality demolished 203 structures in eastern Jerusalem, about half of those were razed after the US elections.
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The purpose of the bill is to 'prevent an inappropriate intervention' of non-party entities in the elections to the Knesset.
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'France defines itself as secular,' Avital explained. 'It is agreed between all parties that they do not want any confusion between state and religion.'
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The PM noted that he got two-thirds of the Congress to support him, which 'I can't get in our country.'
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'I wish you and your administration much success, and take this opportunity to extend to you an invitation to visit the State of Israel and be our guest in Jerusalem.'
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'This ruthless regime continues to deny you your freedom. It prevents thousands of candidates from competing in elections. It steals money from your poor to fund a mass murderer like Assad.'
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The amendment has been dubbed the 'V15 Law' a leftwing movement that received $349,000 in funding from the US State Dept. to unseat PM Benjamin Netanyahu in 2015.
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Jared Kushner is a man who knows how to keep a grudge, and knows the secret of revenge being best served ice cold. Don't underestimate him, don't mess with him, don't take him for granted.
For the first time ever, a number of settlement leaders have been invited to a US presidential inauguration.
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For the record, we are NOT living in Nazi Germany, and next time the president wants to use the N word, he should call up Jonathan Greenblatt.
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In 1994 US envoy to the UN Madeleine Albright insisted on a paragraph-by-paragraph UNSC vote, to edit out language saying Jerusalem was occupied territory.
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'Simon Wiesenthal Center, take disciplinary action against Hier if he refuses to desist from this shameful action.'
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The group that's most underrepresented are the religiously unaffiliated, which accounts for 23% of the general public but is represented by only 0.2% of Congress.
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Trump's team wants to arrange a meeting of the two leaders even before the swearing in ceremony.
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'Had Australia been a member of the Security Council, it would not have supported last Friday's resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlements.'
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Donald Trump is about to become the very first US president who has halachically Jewish grandchildren (the Clintons' son-in-law is Jewish, too, but that's just not good enough for Jewish law).
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Although President-Elect Trump should not be taken for granted on any issue, his choices for Ambassador to Israel and for the Israel-PA peace negotiator are at least a positive opening signal to Israel's rightwing majority.
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Icahn, who believes the Environmental Protection Agency hurts business, has played a central role in selecting the next chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Like a baseball team after a losing season, J Street is making 2017 a rebuilding year, using US Jews' fear and loathing of President-Elect Trump to scare up (literally) the donations.
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How will the gang in Ramallah take the news from Washington? Not well, most likely.
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A pro-Trump protester yelled at Sharon Kleinbaum, clergywoman of LGBT Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, 'You would have been on the side of Antiochus rather than Judah the Maccabee.'
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During last month's test flights, symbols on the Elbit helmet display used by pilots in aim air-to-ground attacks were 'unusable and unsafe to complete the planned testing.'
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'If you or I gave money, weapons or support to al-Qaeda or ISIS, we would be thrown in jail. Why does our government get a free pass on this?'
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In August 1991, during the Crown Heights pogrom, Sharpton led a march of some 400 Blacks in front of the Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters.
If she joins Yesh Atid, it would be the fifth time Livni jumped from a sinking ship.
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'New information recently has come to light that raises serious concerns about whether Rep. Ellison faithfully could represent the Democratic Party’s traditional support for a strong and secure Israel.'
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A fight has ensued between the Obama and Clinton camps over the wisdom of the concession so early in the process, and of trying to force a recount of three Rust Belt states: Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
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Netanyahu's office issued a written directive at 4 PM Sunday asking cabinet ministers not to make contact with the president-elect or his staff.
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Some 50 years ago, real estate developer Fredrick Trump was among the main donors to the Beach Haven Jewish Center at 723 Ave. Z in Flatbush, NY.
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“He asked us to come, we never invited him," ZOA President Mort Klein stated, adding, "Of course, an important guy like him says he wants to come, I say yes.”
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Interestingly, Netanyahu’s most ardent foe these days, Ehud Barak, served the shortest term in office as Prime Minister: eight months and one day.
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Huckabee was one of the guests invited to a sit down with President Elect Donald Trump on Friday, after which a transition official said he would be "America's top diplomat in the Jewish state."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Some pro-Israel activists recall, with dismay, Ellison's efforts to unseat a pro-Israel New Jersey congressman, Steve Rothman, in 2012.
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"In 2012, Donald Trump tweeted, 'The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy,'" Boxer said in her statement. "I couldn't agree more. One person, one vote!"
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White supremacist Richard Spencer compared the move against his neo-Nazi movement as both "corporate Stalinism" and the Gestapo's 1934 "night of the long knives" purge of the SA’s leadership.
Years before alt-right was in the news, Bannon exposed his worldview. Are these the words of an anti-Semite?
The witch hunt against Bannon is animated by the impotent rage of the "anyone but Trumpers."
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According to Klein, ZOA's experience and analysis of Breitbart articles confirm Bannon’s and Breitbart’s "friendship and fair-mindedness towards Israel and the Jewish people. To accuse Mr. Bannon and Breitbart of anti-Semitism is Orwellian."
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"For 21 years, the Left has been trying to blame Netanyahu for the incitement. Over and over Netanyahu said we disagree, but there should be no incitement. And now you're trying to silence him."
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This week, Ingraham has been twitter-shaming Obama for not intervening to stop the violent protests against the November elections results. "Where is Pres Obama urging calm?" she tweeted on Saturday.
Obama can still push forward agenda items that Trump opposes.
Clinton supporters want the Electoral College Electors to vote for Clinton and not Trump.
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He served as the commander of a joint special operations task unit, commander of a Mark V Special Operations Craft detachment, and commander of an al Qaeda targeting cell.
Speculation is rising that these anti-Trump protests are not organic...
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Former US Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk said, with noted condescension, "If the Israeli right knows what Trump position regarding Israel is, I believe they know more than Trump does."
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If you had to find the one Hasidic Rebbe that would attract President Elect Donald Trump's attention, it would have to be Reb Israel Friedman of Ruzhin.
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None of the participants need be corrupt or sinister in any way, the website doesn't provide smarmy details about their sins, all they've done to be included here is be Jewish.
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German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier admitted that "we must adjust to the fact that American foreign policy will get less predictable in the near future."
"I am confident that you will continue to empower our city by reaffirming its sovereignty and moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem."
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Clinton, Bush and Obama all pledged on their campaign trails to move the embassy to the "eternal city."
Settlement leaders have begun congratulating President-Elect Donald Trump
The US Embassy has thrown a voting party in Tel Aviv