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On Oct. 13, just six days after Hamas terrorists infiltrated the Jewish state and slaughtered more than 1,000 Israelis, Stockton University professor Raz Segal penned an op-ed accusing Israel of genocide. Months later, the University of Minnesota tapped Segal to lead its Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, prompting resignations from members of the center's advisory board. On Friday, Minnesota's interim College of Liberal Arts dean, Ann Waltner, extended an offer to Segal to serve as the center's chair, according to an internal email obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The decision prompted immediate pushback from members of the center's...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is now in charge of Twitter, CNBC has learned. Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and finance chief Ned Segal have left the company’s San Francisco headquarters and will not be returning, sources said. Vijaya Gadde, the head of legal policy, trust, and safety was also fired, the Washington Post reported. Musk had until Friday to complete his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter or face a court battle with the company.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — George Segal, the banjo player turned actor who was nominated for an Oscar for 1966's “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” and starred in the ABC sitcom “The Goldbergs,” died Tuesday in Santa Rosa, California, his wife said. He was 87.

Two NYC Jews discuss their association and friendship with Rush Limbaugh which continued from1988. Discussion begins at 11:43 into the program and runs about a half hour.This is Nachum Segal and Meir Weingarten. Among other things they discuss how the friendship began and their trip with Rush to Israel.The program first aired live on Monday, February 22.ML/NJ

Nachum Segal is an Orthodox Jewish man who hosts a morning radio program (now Internet only), JM in the AM, which stands for Jewish Moments in the Morning. Nachum has been a long time friend of Rush who was instrumental in organizing Rush's first (only?) visit to Israel. Nachum reminisces about Rush for about ten minutes beginning at 41 minutes into the linked program.ML/NJ

JANUARY 15, 2009...22:58 "IDF Targets Senior Hamas Leader, Summary of Today’s Events, 15 Jan 2009, 22:10 IST" SNIPPET: "January 15th, 2009 IDF Targets Senior Hamas Leader Said Siam Summary of Today’s Aerial Attacks In a joint IDF and ISA operation in Gaza City early Thursday evening, the IAF targeted a building in which the following senior Hamas operatives were residing – Said Siam, Ia’ad Siam and Salah Abu-Sharah. The forces reported a direct hit."

(AP) LOS ANGELES Steven Seagal wants an apology from federal investigators he says wrongly implicated him in a plot to scare a journalist who was working on a story about the actor's possible ties to organized crime. The 56-year-old action star blames his slumping career on the negative publicity he says resulted from the FBI affidavit that accused him of hiring former private eye Anthony Pellicano to threaten a freelance reporter for the Los Angeles Times. "False FBI accusations fueled thousands of articles saying that I terrorize journalists and associate with the Mafia," Seagal told the Times in an interview...

January 20, 2006 "Foot-In-Mouth Disease" By: Oliver North WASHINGTON -- Pity the poor Democrats. Five years of George W. Bush in office have driven them to distraction. Their most audible advocates have developed "Mad Mule Malady." The symptoms are identical to "Foot-in-Mouth Disease," and those running for office under the Democrat Party banner this year are likely to find their colleagues' increasingly vicious verbal gaffes to be both memorable and damaging. The onset of their illness could not be more instructive. As leading Democrats are attacking Republicans, al Qaeda is planning to attack America. That is what we are told...

OK. I have not done a vanity in months, maybe longer. But I just had to get the word out on just how far Steven Segal has sunk. His latest movie, 'Submerged,' is some Euro production. And the US forces portrayed in the movie are a joke. But the biggest joke is the use of a carrier that is called the USS Clinton! Avoid this movie at all costs. Its garbage. Did I mention Segal has adopted a 'home boy' accent? Did anybody think Segal was a Clinton suck up, or is this the European production company gone wild with...