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June 17, 2016
Hungary honors NY klezmer luminary Frank London
Hungary’s government awarded a state honor to Frank London, a prominent American-Jewish musician and a founder of The Klezmatics klezmer band.
NYC cuts funding for Wiesenthal Center after trustee’s corruption indictment
The New York City Council discontinued its funding for the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance in the wake of the arrest of a museum trustee in a union kickback scheme.
Poll of Israelis: Hillary Leads Trump 45-31
Hillary Clinton remains the favorite U.S. presidential candidate in the eyes of the Israeli public, a poll conducted by Israel’s largest news website, Walla News, showed.
Clinton vetting Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti in initial stages of VP search
The vetting remains in its early stages.
Auschwitz ex-guard, 94, sentenced to 5 years in Germany
A former SS guard who is now 94 was sentenced to five years in prison for his role as an accessory in the murder of at least 170,000 people in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Poland.\n\n
Bernie Sanders tells supporters Trump’s ‘bigotry’ is the focus now, doesn’t mention Israel
Bernie Sanders told his followers that the priority now was defeating Donald Trump and the bigotry he said the presumptive Republican presidential nominee represented.
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