By Gabriel Max Scheinmann WASHINGTON, D.C– After initially omitting funding for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system from its budget request, the Obama administration is now backing Congressional efforts to vastly increase funding for the successful system. The House Armed Services Strategic Forces subcommittee has voted to allocate $680 million, which would allow Israel to [...]
-SDJW staff report- SAN DIEGO — The decision by President Barack Obama to throw his support behind same-sex marriages in the United States has prompted comment pro and con from various Jewish groups. The Orthodox Union pronounced itself “disappointed by (Wednesday, May 9)’s statement by President Obama endorsing legal recognition of same sex marriage. Jewish law is [...]
By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California — With the enlargement of federal powers and intrusions into individual’s lives, the 9th Amendment to the US Constitution, part of our Bill Of Rights, may well gain more judicial attention. The 9th Amendment should be elevated to central prominence, as it was intended, in applying judgment of all federal [...]
By Isaac Yetiv, PhD LA JOLLA, California — There are different kinds of “leaks.” There are inadvertent leaks such as the US President’s “microphone malfunctions” in Paris with former President Sarkozy, and in Moscow with former President Medvedev, and there are deliberate leaks intended to achieve a political result, which sometimes backfire. In military intelligence parlance, [...]
By Adi Mahler BARCELONA, Spain — This is a city rich with Jewish history dating back over 1,700 years. When exactly the first Jews arrived in Spain is hard to say. There are some legends about two sons of the Queen of Sheba (King Solomon’s wife) having founded two cities in Spain. Also, there’s [...]
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rarely do politics in a democratic country wrap up as neatly as they did for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week. Having scheduled new parliamentary elections that he was assuredly going to win, today he announced that the coalition was expanded and reconstituted, and will last until September [...]
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The affiliation of Kadima to the Likud-led coalition came in the middle of the night, at the 11th hour before a Knesset vote to dissolve and begin the onset of an election campaign. It triggered not only the surprise and wonder of commentators, but shrill criticism of Shaul Mofaz for [...]
By David Amos SAN DIEGO — Together with Sharlene and David Berman, my wife Lee and I occasionally schedule visits to a different part of the Americas, and look for points of exploration, leisure, entertainment, edification, and encounters with distant friends. This was the case two weeks ago, when we flew to New York City, [...]
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Israelis went to bed expecting the Knesset to finalize arrangements to dissolve itself and declare a national election for September 4th. We woke to the news that Benyamin Netanyahu and Shaul Mofaz (who recently defeated Tzipi Livni in a party election to be the leader of Kadima) had agreed [...]
By Ankie Spitzer WEST NYACK, N.Y. — At the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, eleven members of the Israeli team were murdered. For forty years their families have asked the International Olympic Committee to observe a minute of silence, in their memory. Please help us by signing our petition. I am the wife of Andrei [...]
