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Terror and the election: What does it mean?

In an election year that has already passed the abnormal and entered the zone of the surreal, the June 12 terror attack in Orlando, Fla., throws even more uncertainty into the mix.

Trump: Obama treats Muslims ‘far better’ than Israel

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Tuesday accused President Barack Obama of treating Muslim nations far better than he treats Israel, repeating a claim he made in the aftermath of the Orlando nightclub attack.

Pulse and Pride

OK, I’ll start with the good news. While the extent of the Orlando tragedy was being revealed back East, in Los Angeles, tragedy was averted.

How to tragedy

This is what you do when it all goes to hell again.

Gunman kills 50 at Florida gay club in worst U.S. mass shooting

A man armed with an assault rifle and pledging loyalty to Islamic State militants killed 50 people during a gay pride celebration at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, early on Sunday in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, a rampage President Barack Obama denounced as an act of terror and hate.

Arab and Jew – activist friends in Israel

Zouheir Bahloul, an Israeli-Arab (and well-known sports announcer and recently, Knesset member) and Moshe Chertoff (a technical writer, and long-ago immigrant from Los Angeles) are friends and almost neighbors.

Obama endorses Clinton after meeting Sanders

President Barack Obama took the first major step to unify the Democratic Party on Thursday, meeting with Senator Bernie Sanders in the Oval Office and issuing a video endorsement of Hillary Clinton right afterwards.

Israeli reporter calls Tel Aviv attacks ‘gruesome’

Israel Channel 2 news reporter Gilad Shalmor told the Journal that Wednesday’s terrorist attack by two Palestinians that left four dead in an upscale Tel Aviv marketplace “was one of the most gruesome ones I’ve ever covered.”

Donald Trump’s anti-Semitic troll army

At least in my world, it seemed the hackneyed Jewish conspiracy theories of yesteryear had finally died an undignified and well-deserved death.

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