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Wednesday letters: Budget matters

They should have heeded the words of Houston’s own George H.W. Bush who had called Reagan’s economic policies “voodoo economics” during the 1980 GOP primary. Democrats retain their majority party stat... read more

Friday letters: Confronting the Saudis

Regarding “Khashoggi’s killers” (Editorial, Wednesday): It is urged that the United States ... Oddly enough, no such demand has been made regarding the actions of Israel despite the killing of hundred... read more

Anti-assimilation Ad Campaign in Central Israel Removed After Being Vandalized

MK Yousef Jabareen (Joint List) sent a letter to Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit ... but the Central Elections Committee reported that on Wednesday the Coalition Against Racism in Israel filed a c... read more

Israel defends actions against detained U.S. student as international criticism mounts

On Wednesday, The New York Times Times published an opinion piece by columnist Bret Stephens and editor Bari Weiss critical of Israel's handling of Alqasem's case. More than 300 academics also penned ... read more

Why liberal Jews in Israel and the US have made Lara Alqasem a cause celebre

Activists like Ms Alqasem, he argues, demonise Israel. Two lower courts have already ruled against the student. Israel's supreme court has postponed her deportation until Wednesday while ... Israeli u... read more

Gaza rocket hits home in Israel, military strikes back

JERUSALEM (AP) — A rocket fired from Gaza struck a residential home in southern Israel early Wednesday and the Israeli military began attacking militant sites in Gaza in response after days of rising ... read more

Israel defends actions against US student in detention

His remarks come after the Times published an opinion piece by columnist Bret Stephens and editor Bari Weiss critical of Israel's handling of Alqasem's case. More than 300 academics penned a letter in ... read more

UPDATE: Texas police say woman who dropped child on doorstep and left was at the wrong house

Authorities say the toddler's mother asked her friend to drop the boy at his father's house Wednesday night but it was the wrong ... Authorities near Houston are trying to identify a woman who abandon... read more

UM to evaluate faculty duties to students after Israel letter controversy

In the wake of controversies that have touched University of Michigan Jewish students, President Mark Schlissel published an open letter to the community on Wednesday ... for a student who wanted to s... read more

American student activist banned from entering Israel awaits results of appeal at airport detention facility

of permitting her to enter Israel,” wrote Tel Aviv University President Joseph Klafter on behalf of the organization. Alqasem’s contention that her political thinking has evolved was supported in lett... read more

Jewish Groups Call on Israel to Allow Detained U.S. Student Into Country

Also on Wednesday, J Street wrote a letter to Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan, protesting the decision to ban Alqasem and labeling it as, "counterproductive and anti-democratic." The pro-Israel ... read more

USC Visions and Voices to present Work and Ideas: An Evening with Enrique Martínez Celaya

USC Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative; USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences; USC Roski School of Art and Design; and El Centro Chicano are proud to present an eveni... read more