President Barack Obama will nominate Jewish appellate court judge Merrick Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, the White House said, setting up a potentially ferocious political showdown with Senate Republicans who have vowed to block any Obama nominee. Garland, 63, who is currently chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…
TEL AVIV – Israelis can now use their smartphones to make live video distress calls to emergency responders, a first-of-its-kind service that, if successful, could set a new standard for countries around the world. Video chats, texting and location detection may be humdrum features for today’s smartphone user, but they remain a puzzle to most…
Britain’s Royal Mail has issued a commemorative stamp featuring Sir Nicholas Winton, known as the “British Schindler.” The first class stamp was issued on Tuesday, part of a set of six commemorative stamps honoring some of the United Kingdom’s greatest humanitarians and their achievements, the BBC reported. Winton, who helped rescue 669 children from Nazi-occupied…
JERUSALEM — The U.S. State Department criticized Israel for “expropriation” of West Bank land around Jericho and near the Dead Sea. The declaration turning the 580 acres of West Bank land into Israeli state land was signed by the Civil Administration’s Head of the Government Property on March 10 during a visit to Israel and…
Several hundred ultranationalists, including seven veterans of Nazi Germany’s Waffen SS, marched through Riga on the independence day of the Baltic nation of Latvia. The march Wednesday, a controversial affair which is Europe’s only annual event by Waffen SS veterans, drew a handful of counter-protesters from Latvia’s Jewish community and about 40 anti-fascist activists, including…
“American Pie” singer Don McLean has denied allegations from his “soon-to-be ex-wife” that he called her an anti-Semitic slur. “Among the many lies told about me by my soon to be ex-wife Patricia is the statement that 24 years ago I made an anti-semetic [sic] remark,” McLean wrote Monday on Twitter, misspelling his wife’s name,…
PALM BEACH, Fla. – U.S. Republican front-runner Donald Trump swept three states and drove rival Marco Rubio out of the White House race, but the New York billionaire’s loss in the crucial state of Ohio wrought more chaos for a party deeply fractured by his candidacy. While the Republican race remained in turmoil on Tuesday,…
President Barack Obama on Wednesday will nominate Merrick Garland, a veteran federal appeals court judge viewed as a moderate, to the U.S. Supreme Court, Democratic Senator Charles Schumer told Reuters. The nomination of Garland, 63, who currently serves as chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, would set up…
Jerry Springer compared the behavior of the presidential candidates in this election season to the atmosphere on his famously boisterous talk show. “When I first started watching the Republican debates, I said if they’re going to start doing my show, they should start paying me,” Springer said in an MSNBC interview on Tuesday. “It’s one…
Defense Secretary Ash Carter and his Israeli counterpart, Moshe Yaalon, agreed at a Pentagon meeting to increase cooperation in the cyber domain, but did not announce agreement on a 10-year military aid package. Carter “reaffirmed the United States’ unshakable commitment to the security of Israel and the importance of the U.S.-Israel defense relationship” during Monday’s…
The Labour Party in Britain has suspended a member for the second time for saying Jews have “big noses” and “slaughter the oppressed.” Vicki Kirby, a former parliamentary candidate, was suspended Monday. Her comments in old tweets resurfaced after she was made a local vice chair of the party last week. Other tweets claimed that…
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