Israel’s new education minister has likened intermarriage among North American Jews to the Holocaust in a recent Cabinet meeting.
A spokesman for Education Minister Rafi Peretz confirmed Tuesday that Peretz said that “assimilation is like the Holocaust” in a July 1 session.

The House Judiciary Committee is moving to authorize subpoenas for several people tied to special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, including President Donald Trump’s son in law, Jared Kushner, and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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A lobster can bring down an entire government coalition – but only in Israel. That’s why embassies and ambassadors are under instruction never to publicly show non-kosher food.
We can now understand why the Israeli embassy in Brazil photo-shopped the picture of Israeli Ambassador, Yossi Shelly, dining with Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says his family’s history of slave ownership doesn’t change his opposition to reparations.
The Kentucky Republican said Tuesday that he and former President Barack Obama have opposed reparations, and “both are the descendent of slave owners.”

The start of a new school year can be hard on the budget. There are costs you might expect (replacing worn-out binders, outgrown clothes, an outdated laptop) and ones you don’t (a budding interest in a travel sport, say, or a fundraiser or birthday cupcakes).
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Despite the agreement of all, actualizing a merger of right-wing parties ahead of the Knesset election is another matter entirely. According to a Walla News report on Tuesday, Ayelet Shaked is working to advance such a union, of all the right-wing parties, those who she describes as being “right of Likud”, which would include the New Right (Naftali Bennet) and the Otzma Yehudit party.

Homeland Security officials said Tuesday there was a 28% drop in the number of migrants encountered by Customs and Border Protection last month, amid a crackdown on migrants by Mexico.
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Following the suspension of an Israeli police officer for dragging a Chareidi protester this past Friday by his peyos, new disturbing footage has surfaced showing the same behavior by Israeli Police.

Amy McGrath, a Marine combat aviator who narrowly lost a House race to an incumbent Republican in Kentucky, has set her sights on an even more formidable target: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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VERNON, N.Y. — An upstate New York town has denied a permit to stage the Woodstock 50 festival at a local horse track, saying the application is too late and incomplete.
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