Day: August 22, 2021
Bahrain’s Jews celebrate first bar mitzvah in 16 years
Boys reads from Torah scroll donated by Jared Kushner after normalization accord with Israel
Read MoreBarbra Streisand makes history with another top 20 album
Jewish singer’s latest release, featuring archival recordings and duets with Willie Nelson and Kermit the Frog, debuts at 15 on the US Billboard charts
Read MoreEgypt to close Rafah crossing into Gaza after weekend of violence
Cairo tells Hamas crossing will be closed from Monday; move likely to express anger over border riot that set back Egyptian moderated ceasefire talks with Israel
Read MoreBiden nominates Rahm Emanuel to be ambassador to Japan
Emanuel, a former Chicago mayor, previously served as a congressman and Barack Obama’s White House chief of staff
Read MorePresident Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Approves New York Emergency Declaration – Whitehouse.gov
President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Approves New York Emergency Declaration Whitehouse.gov
Read MoreEntebbe in person: A new oral history challenges official account of 1976 rescue
Brimming with detail and at times looking to settle old scores, newly translated book ‘Entebbe Declassified’ brings voices of the commandos who took part in the legendary operation
Read More‘Imbecilic.’ Former U.K. Leader Tony Blair Slams the U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan
LONDON — Tony Blair, the British prime minister who deployed troops to Afghanistan 20 years ago after the 9/11 attacks, says the U.S. decision to withdraw from the country has “every Jihadist group round the world cheering.” In a lengthy
Read MoreCNN’s Pamela Brown slams Nikki Haley: ‘Former Trump administration officials are trying to rewrite history’
CNN host Pamela Brown fact-checked Nikki Haley’s attack on President Joe Biden, noting Haley’s previous attacks on former President Donald Trump for his mistakes over negotiations with the Taliban. Brown explained that Biden certainly isn’t innocent, and there is “plenty
Read MoreChaos Persists at Kabul Airport as Taliban Discuss New Government
The militants engage the former officials Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah, as well as Moscow, to seek help in building an “inclusive” government while cementing their rule.
Read MoreDon Everly of Early Rock ‘n’ Roll Icons the Everly Brothers Dies at 84
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Don Everly, one-half of the pioneering Everly Brothers whose harmonizing country rock hits impacted a generation of rock ‘n’ roll music, has died. He was 84. Everly died at his home in Nashville, Tennessee, on Saturday, according
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