What Mattered Today: December 11, 2019The House Judiciary Committee convened on Wednesday night to formally debate the impeachment charges against President Trump before they are sent to the floor for a final vote. Plus, in a Senate hearing on the FBI's Russia probe, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz testified that he is "deeply concerned that so many basic and fundamental errors were made," and the House passed a controversial defense bill that would establish Trump's Space Force and provide 12 weeks of paid parental leave to federal workers. Read up on these and more of today’s top headlines.
Politics Trump signs order against boycotts on college campuses directed against Israel pbs.org - Kevin Freking, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday targeting what his administration describes as a growing problem with …
Jewish Culture Judaism is not a Nationality timesofisrael.com - Michael Dickson This week, news outlets around the world reported that President Donald Trump will be signing an executive order that would interpret Judaism as a …
LS Brickerflipped into To Read Later While DrivingJersey City, NJ Who are the Black Hebrews, the group linked to Jersey City shooter? timesofisrael.com - By Ron Kampeas JTA — Police have identified one of the dead suspects in a shootout at a kosher market in Jersey City as David Anderson, who reportedly was once a …
Forbesflipped into BusinessBusiness The Truth About Trump’s Order On Campus Anti-Semitism Forbes - Evan GerstmannThis morning, The New York Times reported that President Trump “plans to sign an executive order on Wednesday targeting what he sees as anti-Semitism on college campuses by threatening to withhold federal
MarketWatchBenjamin Netanyahu Israel facing third election in less than a year after lawmakers miss key deadline MarketWatch - By Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s parliament on Wednesday approved a preliminary vote to dissolve itself, putting the country on the verge of an …
Tudd Russellflipped into The Machine Is Bleeding To Death.Military Why Israel and Russia Have Built Special Urban Warfare Tanks nationalinterest.org - Michael Peck How do they work?Key point: These two tanks are a step towards improving each country's street fighting capabilities.Just weeks after Russia deployed …
U.S. News & World ReportBenjamin Netanyahu With Netanyahu's Fate in Question, Israel Poised for New Election U.S. News & World Report - Reuters JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel headed on Wednesday toward a third national election in less than a year with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu facing …
Williamflipped into Better KnownOpinion Book review: America’s abandonment of Jews during the Holocaust - Jerusalem Post jpost.com - By JANET LEVY America abandoned European Jews during the Holocaust mainly because of two men: Franklin D. Roosevelt, US president during the Great Depression and …
Middle East What Does the Israeli Flag Really Represent? honestreporting.com - Emanuel Miller “Do you know what the meaning of the Israeli flag is? …. It is white with two blue lines. The two lines represent two rivers, and in between is …
Conservative View Bernie Sanders Tweets His Concern About Jew-Hatred. Look At His Record. dailywire.com - Hank Berrien On Wednesday, apparently in response to the shooting at a kosher supermarket in Jersey City in which Jews were murdered, Senator Bernie Sanders …
The Washington Postflipped into OpinionsOpinion Executive order controversy shows why it’s impossible to trust Trump on anti-Semitism The Washington Post - Paul WaldmanThat’s the proper context to understand an executive order Trump planned to sign Wednesday, one that turned out to be not quite as controversial as it first appeared but still raises a host of questions.
Algemeinerflipped into IsraelMiddle East Israeli Researchers Develop Universal Flu Vaccine algemeiner.com - Lilach Baumer / CTech CTech – Winter is coming and with it comes that unwelcome but persistent visitor, influenza, also known as the flu. Some of us will heed the medical …
creativisionkcflipped into Read ThisOpinion The executive order Trump says will help out Jews is actually worryingly antisemitic independent.co.uk - Andrew Feinberg With all the impeachment news, you may not have noticed that President Trump stumbled into some antisemitic tropes again. While speaking to the …
Reuters Indiaflipped into WorldRights & Freedoms Amid criticism, Trump signs order targeting anti-Semitism at universities Reuters India - by Jeff Mason and Steve HollandWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to prohibit federal funding for colleges and universities that allow anti-Semitism, but the move drew some criticism
Teen VogueMiddle East Reports of Donald Trump's Anti-Semitism Executive Order Worries Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Advocates Teen Vogue - Condé Nast"He has never cared about stopping antisemitism – this Executive Order is about silencing Palestinians and the people who speak up with them.” President Donald Trump announced a new policy seemingly targeting
The New York Timesflipped into OpinionOpinion Trump’s Executive Order and the Rise of Anti-Semitism The New York TimesLast year, anti-Semitic attacks killed more Jews around the globe than in any year in decades. Worshipers were gunned down during Saturday services at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue. Attackers took
The Forward Opinion Opinion | Leftist Jews Were More Angry About Trump Than The Slain Jews in New Jersey forward.com - Ari Hoffman Two things happened to Jewish Americans on Tuesday. Only one of them was real. A Jewish grocery store in Jersey City really was attacked in a …
BBC NewsBenny Gantz Israel will hold unprecedented third election in a year BBC NewsIsrael will hold its third general election in less than a year after a deadline was missed for any lawmaker to form a majority coalition. MPs are now expected to set the election date for 2 March. Ahead
Politics Trump Is Not Really Pro-Israel—He’s Pro-Trump foreignpolicy.com - Andrew Miller Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s announcement last month that the United States no longer considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank to be …
New York MagazineDonald Trump Trump’s Executive Order to Stifle Israel Critics Probably Violates the Constitution New York Magazine - Jesse Singal A BDS protest outside the Trump hotel in Washington, D.C., last year. For a long time, some pro-Israel activists and lawmakers have been pushing a …
Middle East Over 230 cross-party candidates sign pro-Israel pledges ahead of election timesofisrael.com - By Jewish News Reporter More than 230 cross-party candidates have signed a list of pro-Israel pledges ahead of tomorrow’s poll, marking a slight increase since the 2017 …
BE EBflipped into IranMiddle East Lebanon Rejects Iranian Threat to Attack Israel from its Territories aawsat.com Iran’s threat to attack Israel from Lebanese territories sparked outrage in Beirut that condemned Tehran for transforming the country into a “mailbox …
Donald Trump President Trump to Sign Executive Order Redefining Judaism as Ethnicity or Nationality slate.com - Elliot Hannon President Trump speaks to the Israeli American Council National Summit 2019 on Dec. 7, 2019. MANDEL NGAN/Getty ImagesPresident Trump is set to sign …
The Wall Street Journal.Benny Gantz Netanyahu Splits an Emblematic Israeli Town The Wall Street Journal. - Felicia SchwartzREHOVOT, Israel—This middle-class suburb near Tel Aviv has so closely tracked the country’s national politics that it has become known as the Ohio of Israel. Now, with Israel initiating the process to
The Times of Israelflipped into The Times of IsraelBenny Gantz PM said mulling announcement he’ll forgo immunity to show Gantz blocking unity timesofisrael.com - By TOI staff In a sign of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s growing anxiety over leading the country to an unprecedented third vote in 11 months, sources in his …
Bloombergflipped into BloombergOpinion Israel’s Security Chiefs Were Once Beyond Suspicion. No Longer. Bloomberg - Zev Chafets An investigation into Thyssenkrupp defense contracts has opened a sacred sector to public scrutiny. An investigation into Thyssenkrupp defense …
CNNflipped into Top StoriesRights & Freedoms Trump's anti-Semitism executive order, explained CNN - Analysis by Michael Warren(CNN) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday expanding his administration's interpretation of race and national origin to include Judaism -- a move that extends certain civil protections
Middle East Progressives Condemn Trump Anti-Semitism Executive Order as 'Terrifying' and 'Empty, Dishonest Manipulation' commondreams.org - www.commondreams.org Progressives responded with swift condemnation after The New York Times reported Tuesday that President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order …
Opinion Shooting his mouth off, Iranian official admits the truth about Lebanon washingtonexaminer.com - Tom Rogan With telling embarrassment, Iran is rowing back comments made by an adviser to the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The problem? …
