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Biden aide on UAE F-35 sale: Only Israel was meant to have those jets in region

Tony Blinken says peace deal, while positive, seems to be quid pro quo; says Jerusalem, Ramallah too far apart for peace talks so Biden would work to prevent unilateral steps

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‘Nobody here is crazy’: Top rabbi’s grandson defends continuing study amid COVID

Yaakov Kanievsky pushes back on criticism of Chaim Kanievsky’s order to keep schools open despite lockdown, as he ‘believes that the Jewish people have no existence without Torah’

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ADL slams conservative PAC for calling Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum an ‘anti-Semite’

Jewish leader is known for her advocacy on behalf of LGBTQ and human rights; American Liberty Fund ad accompanies accusation with footage from Holocaust

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Four dead and nearly 350,000 evacuated as world’s strongest storm of 2020 hits Philippines

At least four people have died and nearly 350,000 are in evacuation centres as a super typhoon hits the Philippines.

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Soccer commentator suspended for saying Black player ‘should go eat bananas’

Shlomo Scharf denies comment about Maccabi Petah Tikva’s Abdiel Arroyo was racist: ‘If I sent you home to eat cholent is that racism?’

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2 dead, 5 injured in stabbing attack by man in ‘medieval clothes’ in Quebec City

Suspect arrested; police say man in his mid-20s carried ‘bladed weapon’ in Halloween attack

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Man in ‘medieval clothing’ kills two and injures five in Halloween stabbings

Two people have been killed in Quebec City after a man dressed in medieval clothing and armed with a bladed weapon carried out a stabbing spree on Halloween.

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70-year-old pulled out alive as Turkey quake death toll hits 46

Over 900 people now reported injured in Friday temblor; search and rescue teams continue operations in hard-hit Izmir

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Charlie Hebdo trial suspended after primary suspect tests positive for virus

Ali Riza Polat also accused of helping killers of a police officer and 4 hostages at kosher supermarket; resumption of trial dependent on test results of other suspects

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