Rabbi says 'amazed' to receive call from US president; 'He was so comforting,' says Yisroel Goldstein, after call that lasted some 15 minutes

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Poway, CA – President Donald Trump placed a condolence call to the spiritual leader of the Poway, the California synagogue where a shooting Saturday killed one and injured three others. “He spoke about his love of peace and Judaism and Israel,” said Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, of Chabad of Poway, speaking Sunday to the press in [...]

The Likud Party opened coalition negotiations with Yahadut HaTorah on Sunday evening.
Minister Yariv Levin, who is heading the Likud team, congratulated Yahadut HaTorah for its growth following the recent election and noted, “In the previous coalition negotiations, they were the first to sign the agreement, and I hope that we will uphold this tradition. We see you as loyal partners. We worked very well for a long time in the previous government, and we also managed to overcome disputes. I am sure we will succeed in finding solutions that will also bring us to a stable government this time.”
 
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Ultra-nationalist Vox party gets just over 10% of the vote in a country that has had no far-right party to speak of since the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975

Trump, speaking to reporters at the White House on Friday, said that people “have to get their shots.”
He added that vaccinations “are so important.”
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For shoppers in Israel, kashrus is confusing at times and for consumers wishing to buy products manufactured after Pesach and not chametz that was sold, it requires knowing production codes.
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A major Jewish organization is refusing to accept the New York Times’ apology for the Times publishing a cartoon depicting the prime minister of Israel as a dog.
The cartoon, of Netanyahu’s face with dog ears and a dog body, with a blue Jewish star and a leash held by a yarmulke-wearing Donald Trump, was published in the New York Times International Edition on Thursday, April 25.

Indianapolis – Former Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, a Republican foreign policy sage known for leading efforts to help the former Soviet states dismantle and secure much of their nuclear arsenal, but whose reputation for working with Democrats cost him his final campaign, died Sunday. He was 87. The Lugar Center issued a statement saying Lugar [...]