Officer suspended after video shows him pulling Beit Shemesh resident Mordechai Kreuzer by ritual curls; Interior Minister Aryeh Deri says incident 'bordered on anti-Semitism'

David Triesman, Leslie Arnold Turnberg, both Jewish, and Armenian Ara Darzi step down, saying movement 'very plainly institutionally anti-Semitic'

Randy Halprin, now 41, was sentenced to death in 2003 for murder of Texas cop, has demanded a retrial 'free of discrimination and bias'

Houston – H. Ross Perot, the feisty Texas technology billionaire who rattled U.S. politics with two independent presidential campaigns in the 1990s that struck a chord with disgruntled voters, died on Tuesday at the age of 89, his family said. “Ross Perot, the ground-breaking businessman and loving husband, brother, father and grandfather, passed away early [...]

New York – President Donald Trump can’t ban critics from his Twitter account, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, saying the First Amendment calls for more speech, rather than less, on matters of public concern. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan upheld a lower court judge who said Trump violates the Constitution [...]

Jakarta – Indonesia is sending dozens of containers of waste back to wealthy nations after finding it was contaminated with used diapers, plastic and other materials, adding to a growing backlash in Southeast Asia against being a dumping ground for the developed world’s rubbish. The Directorate General of Customs said Tuesday that 49 containers at [...]

Jerusalem – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cautioned Iran on Tuesday that it is within range of Israeli air strikes, citing what he described as Iranian threats to destroy Israel. “Iran recently has been threatening Israel’s destruction,” Netanyahu said at an Israeli air force base, where he viewed a squadron of advanced U.S.-built F-35 warplanes. “It [...]

Washington – Tom Steyer, the billionaire investor and activist, said Tuesday he’s joining the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, reversing course after deciding earlier this year that he would forgo a run. Steyer, 62, is one of the most visible and deep-pocketed liberals advocating for President Donald Trump’s impeachment. He surprised many Democrats in [...]

Melbourne – A Jewish-owned café in a suburb of Melbourne, Australia was hit with anti-Semitic graffiti twice in one week. On Saturday, the back fence of Aliza’s Place Café was painted with “The Holocaust didn’t happen but it should have,” and a large blue swastika. It came two days after the same fence was painted [...]

Hong Kong – Hong Kong protest leaders opposed to the administration of Chief Executive Carrie Lam said Tuesday that they will continue their demonstrations, even after Lam declared the effort to amend a highly contentious extradition bill “dead.” Protesters are persisting in their demands for the bill to be formally withdrawn and an investigation opened [...]

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The principal of a high school in the heavily Jewish-populated Florida city of Boca Raton has been facing calls to resign after declining to recognize that the Holocaust occurred.
The Palm Beach Post first reported on Friday, citing email records obtained through a public-records request, that Spanish River Community High School principal William Latson told a mother of a student in April 2018 who sought to ensure that Holocaust education was “a priority” that “not everyone believes the Holocaust happened.”
“And you have your thoughts, but we are a public school, and not all of our parents have the same beliefs,” he continued.
A petition calling for Latson to resign has almost 6,300 signatures.

The Al-Qaeda media arm Al-Sahab released a statement on Saturday regarding the June “Peace to Prosperity” conference in Bahrain, describing it as “treasonous” and calling on Muslims to be prepared to wage jihad and target American and “Zionist” interests.
In the statement, Al-Qaeda urged all Muslims to support the Palestinian cause by waging jihad physically and by contributing funds, joining jihadi fronts, and “making the targeting of U.S. and Zionist interests a primary objective until the nose of the Zio-crusaders mixes with the dirt.”

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Weeks have passed since the tragic fires which destroyed the Israeli town of Moshav Mevo Modi’im. Many of the survivors, through family connections, or successful GoFundMe-style campaigns, have been able to successfully relocate their families. Some, however, have not been so fortunate.

One such family is the Sorias clan, a young mother and father and their 6 children, who are still living in the temporary school dormitories. The fire was a particularly harsh blow to their extended family, who had lived on the moshav for three generations.

At a northern Israel college, students will soon be able to major in cannabis. Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, located near the town of Nazareth, announced its new program Monday.
it will launch a new medical cannabis major in the upcoming school year, under the department of behavioral sciences. The medical cannabis program will focus on three main disciplines: the growing and production of medical cannabis, medicine and pharmacology, and the economics and legal issues surrounding medical cannabis.

 
A slew of top US and Israeli officials addressed the Christians United for Israel (CUFI) summit in Washington, DC, on Monday.
Speaking to a crowd of thousands at the annual gathering, Vice President Mike Pence hailed the US-Israel relationship, saying that the alliance between the two countries had “never been stronger” than during the past two and a half years.
Pence vowed that his boss, President Donald Trump, would “never compromise the safety and security of the Jewish State of Israel.”
On Iran, Pence said the Tehran regime “should not confuse American restraint with a lack of American resolve.”

Ross Perot, Self-Made Billionaire, Patriot, Twice Ran For President, Philanthropist, Dies At 89H. Ross Perot, the colorful, self-made Texas billionaire who rose from a childhood of Depression-era poverty and twice ran for president as a third-party candidate, has died. He was 89.

 This Is What A School Bus Driver In The Catskills Wrote About Driving Jewish CampersThe following (unedited text) was posted on a local Facebook page in Sullivan County:
I’m a school bus driver in Sullivan County. I did my first Jewish camp trip today.
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 Pence Blasts AOC’s ‘Concentration Camp’ Remarks To Pro-Israel GroupVice President Mike Pence blasted remarks made by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., when she declared that the U.S. was running “concentration camps” along the Mexico border.

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