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Tunisia PM Chahed cites security reasons for the niqab ban following a double suicide bombing in Tunis last month.

ALJAZEERA Tunisia bans face veils in public institutions after bombing July 5, 2019 Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed has banned the wearing of the niqab – a full-face veil – in public institutions with immediate effect, citing security reasons. ” … Continue reading

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“EU’s Mogherini successor Josep Borrell last year denounced Netanyahu’s ‘warlike arrogance’ and advocated for unilateral recognition of Palestinian statehood”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Tough on Israel, fond of Iran: Jerusalem wary of incoming EU foreign policy czar by Raphael Ahren July 3, 2019 Israeli officials are warily following the changing of the guard at the European Union, where someone who … Continue reading

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“Was the principal of one of Palm Beach County’s largest public schools suggesting that the Holocaust was a belief rather than an actual event?”

PALM BEACH POST Spanish River High’s principal refused to call the Holocaust a fact by Andrew Marra July 5, 2019 She sent off the email with few expectations — a routine question seeking a routine answer. How, the mother wondered, … Continue reading

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Suheib Yousef, son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef and younger brother of Green Prince Mosab Yousef, flees organization and gives revealing interview to Israel TV

JNS Another son of Hamas founder flees, blasts terror organization’s corruption July 4, 2019 Suheib Yousef, son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef and younger brother of “Green Prince” Mosab Yousef, deserted his post in Turkey, flew to an undisclosed … Continue reading

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Famed “bad guy” Philistines like Delilah and Goliath, came from Europe, DNA shows

REUTERS Biblical bad guys the ancient Philistines came from Europe, DNA shows by Rinat Harash and Ari Rabinovitch July 3, 2019 The ancient Philistines, the Biblical villains whose origins have puzzled scholars for decades, came to the Middle East from … Continue reading

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Yishai Fleisher asks “Who’s hurting the Palestinian people?”

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“A parade of diverse people—poets and politicians, generals and physicians, God-fearing and disbelievers—turned to the Lubavitcher Rebbe for guidance. Why?”

TABLET MAG Me Among the Believers by Liel Leibovitz July 2, 2019 …Those of us who spend too much time on social media, who shout at the TV news, who are quick to ascribe disagreements to malice and end friendships … Continue reading

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And this, from a Joe Biden supporter: “Liberals repelled by both a blatant idiot and a bankrupting socialist could simply stay home”

SPECTATOR USA Where is the Democrat who can take on Trump? by Lionel Shriver July 3, 2019 I have plenty of shamefaced company in having rashly predicted, as pundits are warned never to do, that Donald Trump wouldn’t win the … Continue reading

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“Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan acknowledges the “great sorrow and suffering” of the Israeli-Ethiopian community, but says police will be forced to use “all means” to disperse demonstrations if violence continues”

JNS 136 arrested, 111 police wounded during riots over police shooting of young Israeli-Ethiopian man July 3, 2019 According to the Israel Police, more than 100 people have been arrested across the country in connection with the wave of protests … Continue reading

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“Two hundred forty-three years ago, a new nation was inspired by the Old Testament”

WALL STREET JOURNAL A Kosher Fourth of July by William McGurn July 1, 2019 Since that fateful July 4 when the Second Continental Congress invoked the unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to declare independence from … Continue reading

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