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Some 1,000 people showed up to the event, organized by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum and UJA-Federation of New York.
The State Department said “hostilities have largely subsided” in the southern province of Suwayda, but the security situation remains “unpredictable.”
Moshe Hill, an Orthodox Jew, told JNS that he hopes to “stem the tide” of New York City politics spilling over into the county on Long Island.
Supporters of Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa “hold the 11% blocking Cuomo from winning the race,” the Suffolk University Political Research Center wrote Monday.
“Just because it’s ‘quiet’ out there, that doesn’t mean we’re actually safe,” the rabbi of a Conservative congregation in the city told JNS.
Rep. Randy Fine told JNS that he stands by his criticism of Doha despite a letter from the Qatari ambassador to the United States.
“ISIS relies on supporters, like the defendants, to sponsor its terrorist aims,” a U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York stated.
In a one-on-one interview in his office, the Israeli prime minister puts Hamas on notice, saying the Jewish state can do things the easy or hard way.
“I think it’s obviously highly offensive,” a law professor at Cornell University told the “New York Post.”
“They have the right if there’s an imminent threat to Israel, and all the mediators agree with that,” Washington’s top diplomat said.
The near doubling of his party’s seats in parliament will allow the unorthodox head of state to push through spending cuts and his pro-U.S. and Israel policies.
An initial inquiry found that the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon “deliberately fired at the drone and downed it,” the IDF said.
“Israel will determine which forces are unacceptable to us—that is how we act and we will continue to act,” said the Israeli premier.
