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Polish MP Claims Pogroms Helped Jews by Winnowing the Herd

“Jews are powerful because they had pogroms,” said MP Janusz Korwin-Mikke. By: Aaron Sull A Polish member of parliament praised the positive impact the pogroms had for Jews, asserting that the pogroms made Jews powerful through natural selection. “The most gifted survived,” MP Janusz Korwin-Mikke said last week during an interview on Poland’s Polsat TV […]

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Purim and the Holocaust

By: Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg My motto is never again, never forget, and never forgive. While some have criticized me for never forgiving the Nazis for what they did to my family, it is precisely this hatred that makes me the fighting Rabbi I am. I refuse to forgive. This is what motivates me to […]

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Warren Ends Presidential Campaign, Centering Race on 2 Men

By: Will Weissert Elizabeth Warren ended her once-promising presidential campaign on Thursday after failing to finish higher than third place in any of the 18 states that have voted so far. While the Massachusetts senator said she was proud of her bid, she was also candid in expressing disappointment that a formerly diverse field is […]

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Russian & Turkish Presidents Reach Cease-Fire Deal in Northwestern Syria

Edited by: TJVNews.com Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Thursday agreed to a cease-fire in northwestern Syria, following talks in Moscow on easing tensions in the region. The two leaders said the cease-fire would take effect at midnight local time in the area of Idlib, where a Syrian and Russian offensive […]

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Harvey Weinstein Moved to Infirmary at Rikers Island After Undergoing Heart Surgery

By: Tom Hays & Michael R. Sisak Harvey Weinstein was moved Thursday to an infirmary unit at New York City’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex after undergoing a heart procedure at the hospital where he’d been held since his conviction last month on rape and sexual assault charges. Weinstein’s spokesman, Juda Engelmayer, said that the […]

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Final Election Results Leave Netanyahu Short of Parliamentary Majority

The final tally appears to have left Netanyahu with a three-seat deficit in the quest to form a parliamentary majority. By: AP With the Israeli election results finalized on Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has again fallen short of a parliamentary majority, extending the country’s year-old political deadlock. Netanyahu had been looking for a […]

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Bloomberg Out, Biden Resurgent After Super Tuesday Victories

The former mayor of New York City ended his presidential bid on Wednesday, as Elizabeth Warren watched her prospects fade after a win-less Super Tuesday. By: AP New York billionaire Mike Bloomberg suspended his presidential campaign and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren was reassessing her candidacy Wednesday as the winnowing process in the Democrats’ 2020 nomination […]

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Israeli Celebrity Sparks Firestorm with ‘Netanyahu, King of the Apes’ Post

Yonatan Geffen posted the insult on his Instagram account but erased it hours later. By: Batya Jerenberg Outspoken veteran composer, singer and journalist Yonatan Geffen reacted with intense dislike to the triumph of the right-wing bloc Tuesday night, insulting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his constituents by calling them monkeys. Over a picture of Netanyahu […]

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