German defense minister pledged to take on radicalism in the country’s armed forces, known as Bundeswehr, after reports emerged Sunday that a member of elite unit was to be suspended over suspected far-right radicalization.
According to Bild am Sonntag, the army was secretly investigating an officer with the elite KSK force and two other soldiers.
The latter two had allegedly made the banned Hitler salute during a private party hosted by the suspect who is to be suspended next week, according to the newspaper.
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Watching events unfold in Israel is an experience in split-screen living. On the right side of the screen is the chaos outside our gates, in neighboring lands. And on the left side of the screen is the chaos inside.
On the left side of the screen on Tuesday, 15,000 Israelis gathered Tuesday evening outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art to demand legal justice for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the face of what they view as an anti-democratic usurpation of political power by Israel’s legal fraternity. They were condemned by the left, by the legal fraternity and its court reporters as enemies of the “rule of law.”

President Donald Trump spoke on Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Iran and other issues, the White House said in a brief statement.
“The leaders discussed the threat from Iran, as well as other critical bilateral and regional issues,” the White House said in an email statement.
Relations between Washington and Tehran have worsened since last year when Trump pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions on Iran.
Reuters and Algemeiner Staff
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Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, who pitched himself to Democratic voters as a campaign finance reformer who could win in red states, is ending his bid for the party’s presidential nomination.
“While there were many obstacles we could not have anticipated when entering this race, it has become clear that in this moment, I won’t be able to break through to the top tier of this still-crowded field,” Bullock said in a statement. “I leave this race filled with gratitude and optimism, inspired and energized by the good people I’ve had the privilege of meeting over the course of the campaign.”

As the impeachment inquiry moves into a critical week, President Donald Trump and his Republican allies are debating the degree to which the president should participate in a process they have spent more than two months attacking.
On Sunday evening, White House counsel Pat Cipollone told the House Judiciary Committee in a five-page letter that Trump would not participate in its first impeachment hearing, scheduled for Wednesday. The invitation from Chairman Jerrold Nadler “does not begin to provide the President with any semblance of a fair process,” Cipollone wrote.

New York Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic member of the House Judiciary Committee, joins Chris Wallace on ‘Fox News Sunday.’
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A Jewish man davening At Rebbe Nachman’s Tziyon In Uman was stabbed over Shabbos.
Emergency first responders from United Hatzalah were quickly called to the scene, and treated the victim, who was on the verge of losing consciousness. The victim was then evacuated to a local hospital.
Local Jewish officials say this is not the first time the assailant has attacked visitors in Uman. After this weekend’s attack, however, local Jewish officials “have lost their patience, and this time they will put an end to this.”
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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The Agudah’s annual convention has long been the key venue for members of the Jewish community to convene together with Torah leaders and community askanim to discuss and address the critical issues facing the klal today. A direct descendent of the First Knessia Gedolah in 1923, 95 years later the Agudah Convention’s content may have changed, but its mission has remained the same: To gather under the banner of our Gedolei Yisroel to advance the interests of the Jewish community.
Stories of greatness are not reserved for history books or biographies of Torah giants.
They are written every day by simple Yidden everywhere, as they have been for millennia.

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