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		<title>Gaza outcome worthy of Thanksgiving</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2012 18:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ By Bruce Kesler &#160; ENCINITAS, California &#8212; There are apparently sharp differences among commentators on the Gaza ceasefire. Regardless, the Gaza thanksgiving lesson is that Israel and its supporters have far more to be thankful for, and hopeful for, than does Israel&#8217;s enemies. On the one hand are those who say that Israel accomplished its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letters from Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2012 18:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note:  San Diegans are receiving notes from their family members and friends who are in Israel at this time of grave crisis.  As we receive permission from the authors to reprint these letters, we will bring to you&#8211;from many perspectives&#8211;a running commentary. From Rabbi Bill Berk (In response to a letter from a friend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UCSD&#8217;s pro-Palestinian faculty: a case study</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 22:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California &#8212; A recent study entitled Israel and the Campus counted a disproportionate number of anti-Israel incidents occurring on University of California and other elite campuses. It said “the most serious problem faced on campus is not from student activities, but from faculty” who “habitually abuse their academic freedom and have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leftists take another look at Hamas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler &#160; ENCINITAS, California &#8212; It is a signal event when even some from the political left who has long sided with pro-Palestinian assertions wakes up and recognizes the horror that is Hamas. In 2005, Israel unilaterally removed its military and residents from Gaza, leaving behind the infrastructure and commercial ventures Israel and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rabbi warns of Iran, campus intolerance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California &#8211;In a typically politically liberal Reform synagogue in America, this one in a suburb of San Diego, the typically politically liberal rabbi’s Rosh Hashanah sermonshould be a wake-up call to other Jews who are typically liberal. The Jewish Federations of North America sent out an email calling on all rabbis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SDJW columnist, defending his bubbe&#8217;s honor, challenges his editor&#8217;s wife to a juried mandelbread tasting contest</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California &#8212; San Diego Jewish World&#8216;s Editor/ Publisher Don Harrison is proud (or else must go on a diet, which Don’s supporters know he is incapable of) of his wife Nancy’s mandelbread, but ensured a favorable verdict by using his family – under the eye of Nancy – to taste Papa Ben&#8217;s Kitchen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UC reports clarify, cloud campus controversies over Middle East</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California &#8212; When students return to University of California classes in the Fall, those who are involved in or interested in the debates about Israel or Palestinians will have two new reports to chew on. Similarly, faculty who may be affected by the reports will have to face tensions between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Historian traces anti-Semitism from antiquity to the present</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 01:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California &#8212; Edward Alexander’s latest book, The State of the Jews: A Critical Appraisal, would better have been titled &#8220;The State of the Anti-Jews.&#8221; Edward Alexander is a professor emeritus of English as well as one of the better informed writers on matters Jewish, who brings this broad knowledge to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Judaic Studies departments are shielded from criticism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 06:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sdjewishworld.com/?p=29159</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California &#8212; I’ve yet to see, among the criticisms of college ethnic and gender studies departments, a similar criticism of Judaic Studies departments. Is this because, as some charge, Jews have a privileged place in our universities? The pervasiveness of anti-Israel sentiment on campuses, usually with carte blanche or often support [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some facts about Israel&#8217;s illegal immigration problems</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 00:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sdjewishworld.com/?p=28787</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California &#8212;  international media usually seeks out and features negative news about Israel or exaggerates it or treats it in a biased manner. So, too, on the issue of African immigrants to Israel.  There is a natural, and commendable, empathy for peoples in dire straits or whose experience, by large stretches [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WorldBeat Cultural Center joins in propaganda attack on Israel</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/05/25/worldbeat-cultural-center-joins-in-propaganda-attack-on-israel/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=worldbeat-cultural-center-joins-in-propaganda-attack-on-israel</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 15:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler Bruce Kesler SAN DIEGO &#8212; For those of you who, like me, enjoy “world music” it is saddening that a major venue in San Diego which largely targets children is sponsoring pro-Palestinian propaganda from a virulent anti-Israel, anti-US group operating under the misleading name Middle East Children’s Alliance. The WorldBeat Cultural Center sits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Constitution&#8217;s 9th Amendment may become bulwark against an expanding federal government</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/05/10/u-s-constitutions-9th-amendment-may-become-bulwark-against-an-expanding-federal-government/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=u-s-constitutions-9th-amendment-may-become-bulwark-against-an-expanding-federal-government</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 16:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California &#8212; 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   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SJP seeks to turn logic on its ear at UCSD</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/04/28/sjp-seeks-to-turn-logic-on-its-ear-at-ucsd/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=sjp-seeks-to-turn-logic-on-its-ear-at-ucsd</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 01:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California&#8211;South of here on the Interstae 5, a group of students at the University of California San Diego claim exclusive rights to wear clown costumes, and accuse anyone else wearing one to be clownaphobic. Ridiculous, right? Then, keep reading. After the anti-Israel Students for Justice in Palestine at UCSD lost the vote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new campus tactic: accusing pro-Israel professors of intimidation</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/03/12/a-new-campus-tactic-accusing-pro-israel-professors-of-intimidation/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=a-new-campus-tactic-accusing-pro-israel-professors-of-intimidation</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler SAN DIEGO &#8212; In a blatant act of chutzpah, if the pro-Palestinians at UCSD will allow a Yiddish term, they have launched a specious campaign to claim they were harassed and insulted by their opponents. This false claim is in order to step up their own campaign of fear, slander and harassment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary: Filner chooses lives of pigs over those of Marines</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/02/25/commentary-filner-chooses-lives-of-pigs-over-those-of-marines/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=commentary-filner-chooses-lives-of-pigs-over-those-of-marines</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California &#8211;Congressman Bob Filner, together with PETA, wants to replace with simulators military Corpsmen’s “live tissue trauma training” on pigs. Filner’s proposal is a “pig in a poke”, experience and science does not support his drastic change in military training. But, Filner is running for mayor of San Diego and this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An open letter to Cal State University about anti-Semitism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Dear President Welty, President Armstrong, President Hellenbrand, and Chancellor Reed: We are co-founders of the AMCHA Initiative, a grassroots organization representing thousands of members and supporters of the California Jewish community, who are united in their concern for the safety and well-being of Jewish students on college and university campuses across the state. We would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mandatory contraception provision may upend national health care law</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler &#160; ENCINITAS &#8212; The mandate by the Obama administration that contraception must be provided by religious hospitals even if contrary to their religious doctrine may influence the Supreme Court’s decisions on ObamaCare. On a fundamental level, the mandate exhibits the intrusiveness of Obamacare into aspects of private belief, its practice, and freedom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Israel professor misuses CSUN website</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2011/12/06/23049/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=23049</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California &#8212; Does David Klein, a math professor at California State University, have the bright to use the university’s web server, the  url (http://www.csun.edu/~vcmth00m/boycott.html )  being  the university’s, to post a hate page against Israel and Jews? The webpage says, “Israel is the most racist state in the world  at this  time,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pro-Israel groups organize to combat Palestinians, leftists on campus</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2011/12/02/22952/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=22952</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California &#8211;The old “gentlemen’s agreement” worked sub rosa to discriminate against Jews and preserve the homogeneity of neighborhoods or work places. General indifference permitted this. The new “gentlemen’s agreement” works similarly on many campuses to preserve the homogeneity of leftist and pro-Palestinian thought, again permitted by indifferent administrators. As many of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.C. President Yudof not so vigilant when violence is against pro-Israel Jews</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2011/11/21/u-c-president-yudoff-not-so-vigilant-when-violence-is-against-pro-israel-jews/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=u-c-president-yudoff-not-so-vigilant-when-violence-is-against-pro-israel-jews</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Bruce Kesler &#160; ENCINITAS, California &#8212; University of California President Mark Yudof on Sunday issued a press release that “ I am appalled by images of University of California students being doused with pepper spray and jabbed with police batons on our campuses.” President Yudof went on:  &#8220;I intend to convene all 10 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Middle East analyst predicts a crumbling Iran</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2011/11/09/middle-east-analyst-predicts-a-crumbling-iran/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=middle-east-analyst-predicts-a-crumbling-iran</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California &#8212; I recently had lunch and a stroll along the ocean with a new friend, Jonathan Spyer. We struck it off immediately when he said the only organization he ever joined which he promised to obey was the Israel Defense Force. This mirrored my experience in joining the US Marine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How CUNY stopped being a temple of learning</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2011/05/17/how-cuny-stopped-being-a-temple-of-learning/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=how-cuny-stopped-being-a-temple-of-learning</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 17:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California&#8211;My tailor grandfather taught me the difference between being a Jew and being honored. When I was a little boy, holding my grandfather’s hand as we exited the synagogue, all the well-dressed people were walking around a disheveled, crying man at the bottom of the steps.  My grandfather immediately went up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The off-stage furor over Tony Kushner</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 15:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California &#8212; Were Martin Heidegger alive today, would he be granted an honorary degree from the City University of New York (CUNY)? We might consider that question in the matter of whether playwright Tony Kushner should be granted an honorary degree from CUNY. Perhaps so. Honorary degrees are granted for many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not an academic, but an &#8216;acridemic&#8217; persists in attacking Israel</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2011/05/02/not-an-academic-but-an-acridemic-persists-in-attacking-israel/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=not-an-academic-but-an-acridemic-persists-in-attacking-israel</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 21:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California &#8211;The appointment at my alma mater,  Brooklyn College, of an adjunct, Kristofer Petersen, to teach Middle East politics in the Political Science department was defended as academic freedom. This was despite his involvement in touting Gazans as virtual lambs and Israel as a beast, and his heavily slanted reading list. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UCSD faculty members rebut Arab demonization of Israel</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2011/04/04/ucsd-faculty-members-rebut-arab-demonization-of-israel/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ucsd-faculty-members-rebut-arab-demonization-of-israel</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 05:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler LA JOLLA, California &#8211;At college campuses across the US, student organizations that attack Israel have become more and more active, and obnoxious, over the past decade. The members are drawn from some of the Moslem students and their far leftist companions. Most students are there to get an education, or at least [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Condemning Gaza rocket storage not the same as condemning attacks on Israel</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2011/03/31/condemning-gaza-rocket-storage-not-the-same-as-condemning-attacks-on-israel/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=condemning-gaza-rocket-storage-not-the-same-as-condemning-attacks-on-israel</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California &#8212; The New York Times reports that the Palestinian Center for Human Rights “took the unusual step this week of condemning the building and storage of anti-Israel rockets in densely populated areas, a practice that has led to injuries and deaths of civilians.” “Unusual” isn’t quite the word for it. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary: Brooklyn College reinstates pro-Gaza professor as Mideast seminar leader</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2011/02/01/commentary-brooklyn-college-reinstates-pro-gaza-professor-as-mideast-seminar-leader/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=commentary-brooklyn-college-reinstates-pro-gaza-professor-as-mideast-seminar-leader</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California &#8211;Brooklyn College President Karen Gould today announced the re-hire of Kristofer Petersen. His appointment to teach a graduate course on the Politics of the Middle East had been rescinded last week, after a furor over his avid pro-Gaza writings, activism and slanted syllabus was brought to light. In her patently ridiculous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Academic Freedom or Academic License at Brooklyn College</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2011/01/28/academic-freedom-or-academic-license-at-brooklyn-college/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=academic-freedom-or-academic-license-at-brooklyn-college</link>
		<comments>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2011/01/28/academic-freedom-or-academic-license-at-brooklyn-college/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 23:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California &#8212; Those of you spending tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars for your children’s college education, and paying taxes to support colleges, may be interested in a current brouhaha at my alma mater, Brooklyn College. A doctoral student, Kristofer Petersen, 1 ½ years into his studies, was hired [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pro-Palestinian cleric hijacks statement from Middle East bishops</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California&#8211; “Is ‘Palestinian-killer’ the new ‘Christ-killer’?” was the first question that occurred to me as I read news reports that a meeting of Catholic Bishops from the Middle East condemned Israel, called for withdrawal to 1967 borders, and asserted that Jews have no Biblical right to Israel. I just read the actual statement of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Middle East columnist ponders two &#8216;day after&#8217; scenarios</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2010/10/17/middle-east-columnist-ponders-two-day-after-scenarios/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=middle-east-columnist-ponders-two-day-after-scenarios</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 02:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Middle East analyst, author and columnist Barry Rubin, a former U.S. Senate aide who founded an international affairs research institute in Herzliya, sometimes engages in “what happens the day after” speculation. What happens the day after Iran gets a nuclear bomb? he pondered during his visit to San Diego County [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Criticism of Israel is fine, delegitimization is not</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2010/10/04/criticism-of-israel-is-fine-delegitimization-is-not/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=criticism-of-israel-is-fine-delegitimization-is-not</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 22:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler and Rabbi David Frank ENCINITAS, California &#8212; Sometimes we&#8217;re lucky to have friends with whom we can have civil conversations, even when we disagree. Fewer times, we&#8217;re even more fortunate to have a friend whose learning and temperance wakens new thinking in ourself. Such a friend earns the right to be listened [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Decision to cut Brooklyn College out of will causes a stir</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California &#8212; Since last Friday, when I wrote Why I Just Disinherited My Alma Mater,  the post has had “legs” about what I and others say is politicized indoctrination as official college policy. Brooklyn College requires incoming freshmen and transfer students to read an absurdly slanted book that Arab-Americans are routinely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I just disinherited my alma mater</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California&#8211;I just updated my will and trust and, with heavy heart, cut out what was a significant bequest to my alma mater, Brooklyn College. What caused the disinheritance is that all incoming freshmen and transfer students are given a copy of a book to read, and no other, to create their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who among us really stands for freedom?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 14:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California&#8211;Most Americans, and many abroad, can’t help but choke up as they see our flag floating by in a patriotic parade. But, the 4th of July isn’t Flag Day, June 14. How many hung out their flag then? Most Americans, and many abroad, are thankful for the men and women of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is New York Times reporter a propagandist for Turkey?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California-The New York Times’ headline could have been “Turkey’s Islamist Government Is Just Doing the U.S. A Favor, Wink, Wink” instead of “For Turkey, an Embrace of Iran Is a Matter of Building Bridges,” by Sabrina Tavernise. With the imprimatur “News Analysis”, the NYTs bureau chief in Istanbul, Sabrina Tavernise, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andrew Hoffman, helper of military families, up for &#039;All Star&#039; award</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2010/06/08/andrew-hoffman-helper-of-military-families-up-for-all-star-award/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=andrew-hoffman-helper-of-military-families-up-for-all-star-award</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California&#8211;Andrew Hoffman is a congregant at my synagogue, Temple Solel.  Andrew Hoffman is a finalist in Major League Baseball and People magazine’s 2010 “All-Stars Among Us” national campaign, in conjunction with the MLB All-Star Game. The campaign is to recognize individuals who are serving their communities in extraordinary ways. Andrew Hoffman works [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three big truths need to be understood in &#039;flotilla&#039; affair</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2010/06/05/three-big-truths-need-to-be-understood-in-flotilla-affair/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=three-big-truths-need-to-be-understood-in-flotilla-affair</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dhharrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California&#8211;Better appreciation of the facts about the Gaza flotilla (a flatuated term for that motley group of ships) are emerging, after the jumping to jaundiced judgment to jeer Israel.  The key one: Turkey hid behind its radical IHH front to instigate violence and got what it wanted. Why? The obvious answer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gaza flotilla was an intentional provocation, not a peace convoy</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2010/05/31/gaza-flotilla-was-an-intentional-provocation-not-a-peace-convoy/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=gaza-flotilla-was-an-intentional-provocation-not-a-peace-convoy</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 20:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dhharrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California &#8211; Let’s cut out the crap from the international sob-sisters and abetters of Gazan Hamas thugs. Let the UN Security Council show this video upon its big screen, and then choke on the hasty lies swallowed by puerile politicians of pusillanimity pontificating from far away, and the media that vomited the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Root Causes In Middle East: What if there wasn’t an Israel?</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2010/04/20/root-causes-in-middle-east-what-if-there-wasn%e2%80%99t-an-israel/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=root-causes-in-middle-east-what-if-there-wasn%25e2%2580%2599t-an-israel</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dhharrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, April 20&#8211;Today, modern Israel’s 62nd birthday, is a good time to ask the question, “What if there wasn’t an Israel, would things be different in the Middle East?” The world would still be dealing with and suffering from MidEast extremists: First of the Soviet proxies, but without Israeli intelligence penetrating them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Those tugs of loyalties reemerge under Obama administration</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dhharrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California&#8211;I came into this world a few months before Israel; we’re both 62. I’ve had a life thankful to the security in the United States for my and my immediate family who escaped Europe’s persecutions and murders, and the opportunities in the US.  I’ve relied upon my exertions to give back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why some are tired of hearing about the Holocaust</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 04:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dhharrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California&#8211;“I’m tired of hearing about the Holocaust.”  Be close enough to most people for them to be honest, even Jews, and you’ll often hear that said. What they most usually mean is they are tired of hearing hypocrisy. Sunday is Holocaust Day, Yom Ha-Shoah, Day of Remembering the Catastrophe, sadly commemorated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schmooze and News for all us Jews</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dhharrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO &#8212; Okoronkwo Umeham and his wife, Gail Feurzeig Umeham, have heard rumors that the Mexican government may apologize for his wrongful incarceration in a Tijuana Federal Detention Center earlier this month, but so far that is all that the reports have turned out to be – rumors.   To my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Havya heard of the Hurva?</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2010/03/16/havya-heard-of-the-hurva/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=havya-heard-of-the-hurva</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California &#8211;What the heck is the Hurva, and what is its current role in Israel-Palestinian and Israel-US tensions?  The Hurva (“ruin” or “wreck” in Hebrew) has become a target for the Palestinian campaign to denigrate Israel’s Jewish heritage, and the Obama administration is cooperating. Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu is trying to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Links to recommended viewing and reading #4</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judy Lash Balint provides us with a link to her story about a Jewish bride and a father who were arrested for seemingly praying on the Temple Mount. Ulla Hadar, our Shaar Hanegev bureau chief, spotted this piece on Yahoo.com about how peaceful life has become in the wake of Operation Cast Lead on  Nahal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to the Editor: Don&#039;t confuse military &#039;decorations&#039; with &#039;awards&#039;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dhharrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor: I enjoyed Bruce Kesler&#8217;s  article, &#8220;Are service medals so unimportant that Pentagon can&#8217;t be bothered to remember the awardees?&#8221; of September 29 very much.  I found that the article was informative, well researched and scholarly. I do have a slight correction please. I am a US Army veteran (MOS; 96B; USAICS, 66th MID, 3d [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#039;Start Up Nation&#039; &#8212; A book review</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2009/11/10/start-up-nation-a-book-review/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=start-up-nation-a-book-review</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dhharrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California &#8212; Every once in a while a book comes along that reveals a startling gap in our understanding of the world, our passions and desires, and ourselves.  Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle is such a book. One of Start-Up Nation’s authors will discuss it at the San [...]]]></description>
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