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For many Jewish Americans, the question is not whether they will travel to Israel, but when. Each year, tens of thousands of young people from around the world make the trip — their expenses paid by Taglit-Birthright Israel, a nonprofit that aims to foster their Jewish identity and a connection to Israel by introducing them to the country’s everyday life, culture and history. Participants tour sites such as Israel’s Holocaust memorial and the Western Wall, and spend part of the trip in the company of Israeli soldiers their age. That ritual met with some controversy this year after a few participants walked off the program to protest what they considered Birthright's failure to adequately address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. About a dozen American Jews abandoned their summer tours and joined up with other organized trips focused on the conflict and meeting Palestinian families. Though small, the protest reverberated throughout Los Angeles’ Jewish community, with some exp...

Trump ignores stone-faced Hillary, greets Obamas as all sit awkwardly together at Bush 41’s funeral

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said that she will pay her congressional interns at least $15 an hour after slamming her future colleagues for offering unpaid internships and failing to pay staff a "living wage." "Time to walk the walk," the Democratic congresswoman-elect tweeted on Tuesday. "Very few members of Congress actually pay their interns. We will be one of them." She tweeted a link to an article in the Washington Post in which her campaign manager, Saikat Chakrabarti, confirmed that interns in her office would be paid "at least" $15 an hour. Ocasio-Cortez's pledge comes a day after she criticized her future colleagues in Congress, including Democrats, for not paying interns.

But Jeffrey Toobin told Anderson Cooper one uncensored line should worry the White House. The document said Flynn’s “record of military and public service distinguish him from every other person who has been charged” in the investigation, but added that “senior government leaders should be held to the highest standards.” Toobin said that line could be a big clue as to where Mueller is going, telling Cooper: “The fact that he is saying ‘senior government leaders should be held to the highest standards,’ I would be a little nervous if I were the people involved in the obstruction of justice investigation, starting, of course, with the president of the United States.” “I don’t think that is just filler material,” Toobin said. “I think that is a statement of how Mueller is going to approach the remainder of his investigation as he starts thinking about the people in the White House.”

Roger Stone: ‘Neo-McCarthyism’ to blame for claims of Russian collusion Trump ally Roger Stone rejected a request by Senate Democrats to provide documents and testify about WikiLeaks and “Russiagate”, invoking the Fifth Amendment constitutional protection against self-incrimination. The request was “far too overbroad, far too overreaching, far too wide ranging” in both the list of people with which Stone has communicated over the past three years and the imprecision of demanding “documents concerning” those communications, Stone’s attorney Grant J. Smith wrote to Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California), ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. “Mr. Stone respectfully declines to produce any documents and declines the invitation for an interview,” Smith wrote.Sen Dianne Feinstein. ✔ @SenFeinstein  Roger Stone’s attorney sent a letter this week stating Stone won’t provide documents or appear for an interview before the committee. http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/pu...

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