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Reports in Israel raised serious concerns that Ethiopian Jewish women were given long-term birth control injections without full consent. The allegations centered on t...
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie visited Israel’s Western Wall in February 2011 during his first official overseas trip as governor. He was given a personal tour of ...
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Rabbi Saul Kassin, a senior religious leader associated with the Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced in June 2011 to two years of unsupervised...
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2010 sermon statements attributed to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef 2010 sermon statements attributed to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef on gentiles In 20...
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Gabriela Rico Jiménez’s Viral 2009 Incident and Disappearance On the evening of August 3, 2009, 21‑year‑old Gabriela Rico Jiménez was filmed in a distressed...
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In July 2009, federal authorities in New Jersey arrested 44 individuals, including five rabbis, in a large-scale corruption and money laundering investigation conducte...
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Michael Jackson, the “King of Pop,” died on June 25, 2009, at the age of 50 in Los Angeles, California, from acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication administere...
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On May 11, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem during a papal trip to the Holy Land. He touched the stones of the wall and offered prayers, f...
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Herman Rosenblat publicly acknowledged in December 2008 that key elements of his Holocaust survival story were fabricated. Rosenblat had claimed that while imprisoned ...
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Iraqi journalist throws shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush during Baghdad visit On December 14, 2008, Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi threw two shoe...
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Lebanon Arrests Ali And Youssef Jarrah On Espionage Charges On October 25, 2008, Lebanese security forces arrested two Lebanese brothers, Ali Dib El‑Jarrah ...
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Joel Engelman files civil suit alleging historical abuse in Brooklyn On August 27, 2008, Joel Engelman, then 23 years old and residing in Greenpoint, Brookl...
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Donald Trump’s wedding included Jeffrey Epstein as a guest Reports indicate that Jeffrey Epstein, the late financier later convicted of sex offenses, attended the wed...
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Media coverage and public recognition of serial homicide have been examined by criminologists and researchers studying race, victim demographics, offender characterist...
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On February 4, 2004, the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) canceled its LifeLog research program, which had been launched in 2003. The pr...
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Gilgamesh narratives resurface amid 2003 Iraq war and Euphrates region focus In April 2003, during the early phase of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, interna...
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Michael Jackson calls Sony executive Tommy Mottola “a devil” in public speech On June 15, 2002, American singer Michael Jackson spoke to a crowd at an event...
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Ashley Madison is an online dating and social networking service launched on January 21, 2002. It was founded by Darren J. Morgenstern and Noel Biderman, and later ope...
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On October 20, 2001, American musician Kid Rock appeared as a guest on the television show Saturday Night Live (SNL). During his appearance, Kid Rock made a remark reg...
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September 11 Attacks 2001 September 11 Attacks 2001 On September 11, 2001, nineteen militants associated with the Islamist extremist group al Qaeda hij...
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Netanyahu Comments On United States Influence In 2001 Recording In mid-2001, Benjamin Netanyahu was recorded speaking with a group of Israeli settlers in th...
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Palestinian children are regularly arrested and detained by Israeli authorities, primarily for security-related offenses, but there is no separate prison exclusively f...
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Diana Frances Spencer (7 1 1961 – 8 31 1997) was a British socialite and member of the aristocracy who became Princess of Wales upon her marriage to Charles, Prince of...
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Christine Maxwell’s Technology Work and Family Connections Christine Yvonne Malina‑Maxwell is a British technology entrepreneur and co‑founder of software companies s...
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23 July 1952 — Egyptian military officers overthrow King Farouk's government. The movement is driven by dissatisfaction with corruption, political inequality, British ...
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1914–1917 Allied purchasing and finance role — J.P. Morgan & Co. becomes a major financial and purchasing intermediary for Britain and France in the United States duri...
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28 November 1912 — Delegates meeting at Vlorë proclaim Albania independent from the Ottoman Empire during the First Balkan War. Ismail Qemali leads the provisional gov...
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641 CE — Muslim authorities establish Fustat near the old Roman fortress of Babylon on the Nile. The city becomes the administrative center of Islamic Egypt and develo...
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641–1000 CE — Arabic did not replace Coptic immediately after the conquest. Government, migration, urban life, taxation, religious conversion and social mobility gradu...
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7th–10th centuries — Arabic increasingly replaces Greek and Coptic in government and eventually becomes the dominant spoken language. Conversion to Islam occurs over g...
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639–642 CE — Forces commanded by Amr ibn al-As invade Byzantine Egypt during the early Islamic conquests. Byzantine resistance collapses gradually, and Alexandria even...
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c. 1070–664 BCE — Political power is divided among several dynasties and regional centers. Libyan-descended ruling families establish dynasties in northern Egypt, whil...
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c. 2181–2055 BCE — Egypt is politically divided among competing centers, especially Herakleopolis in the north and Thebes in the south. Provincial rulers exercise grea...
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6 August 1945 — An American B-29 drops the uranium bomb Little Boy on Hiroshima. The explosion and fire destroy much of the city and kill tens of thousands of people i...
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9 August 1945 — The United States drops the plutonium bomb Fat Man on Nagasaki. Tens of thousands are killed immediately or in the following months. The attack occurs ...
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28 July 1914 — Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia exactly one month after the Sarajevo assassination. Artillery soon targets Belgrade. What Vienna hopes to treat a...
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23 July 1914 — Austria-Hungary presents Serbia with a severe ultimatum designed to suppress anti-Habsburg activity and permit substantial Austro-Hungarian involvement ...
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23 August 1941 — German forces intensify operations that culminate in one of the largest encirclements in military history around Kyiv. Hitler diverts armored forces s...
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8 November 1923 — Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party attempt to seize power in Bavaria and march on Berlin. The putsch collapses after police confront the conspirators in...
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7 November 1917 — Bolshevik forces overthrow Russia's Provisional Government in Petrograd. Vladimir Lenin's movement has promised peace, land and political transfer to...
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28 May 1940 — During the military crisis in France, Britain's War Cabinet continues debating whether Italian mediation might open negotiations with Germany. Winston Ch...
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12 March 1938 — German troops enter Austria after intense political pressure on the Austrian government. Hitler announces the incorporation of Austria into the German ...
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1 September 1939 — German forces invade Poland from the west, north and south, beginning the European phase of the Second World War. The attack follows months of escal...
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13 August 1923 — Stresemann becomes German chancellor during the Ruhr and inflation crisis and later serves as foreign minister. He ends passive resistance in the Ruhr...
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24 November 1942 — Hitler orders the Sixth Army to remain inside the Stalingrad pocket rather than attempt an immediate breakout. He expects outside relief and air sup...
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7 May 1915 — German submarine U-20 torpedoes RMS Lusitania off the coast of Ireland. Nearly 1,200 people are killed, including more than one hundred Americans. The sin...
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23 August 1939 — Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression agreement. Secret protocols divide parts of Eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influe...
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23 August 1939 — Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression pact. Secret protocols divide parts of Eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influe...
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