By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–It’s happened again. Within a day of the Prime Minister Netanyahu talking about pursuing a temporary solution for Israel and Palestine, the leader of the Palestine Authority has rejected the idea. So much for negotiations. The history of rejection goes back a long way, with a prominent landmark being the Khartoum Declaration […]
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(Column 23, March 3, 2011) Compiled by Donald H. Harrison Jewish Organizations The Agency for Jewish Education sponsors UCSD Political Science Professor Emeritus Sanford Lakoff lecturing March 14 at 7:00 pm at the library at 1776 Dove Lane in Carlsbad. His lecture is titled, “Turmoil in the Middle East: Democracy
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By Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D LA JOLLA, California–In my previous articles, I wrote about the “structural endemic obstacles” that plague our system of government and lead to immobilism and, even, to paralysis. In this analysis I concentrate on a very disturbing flaw in our political discourse that makes the decision-making process a herculean task. I am
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USAMANCHESTER, England (WJC) — The Islamist Hamas has said it would stop the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) from teaching Palestinian children in Gaza about the Holocaust. The history of the Shah is set to become part of a human rights curriculum in Gaza schools run by the UNRWA. These schools are attended
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Travel and FoodLONDON (WJC)–The founder of the controversial internet platform ‘WikiLeaks’, Julian Assange, has accused British journalists of a “Jewish conspiracy” against him, to deprive him of funds by Jewish donors. The accusation came in remarks published in the British magazine ‘Private Eye’, which was reporting on a phone call Assange made to the magazine’s editor two
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By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — There is a very simple answer to an apparent contradiction about evaluating the current “Arab revolt.” If we look at the situation as a whole, there are reasons to think that many events of the last two months have been positive. Clearly, the resurgence of active opposition in Iran
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) welcomed as “an important and historic moment” the publication of a new book by Pope Benedict XVI that includes a sweeping exoneration of the Jewish people for the death of Jesus. Pope Benedict’s book, Jesus of Nazareth – Part II, excerpts of which were released on
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Jewish ReligionHAIFA (Press Release)–Immunological research at the University of Haifa, Israel, has made a new breakthrough, revealing a critical component in the “decision-making” process of white blood cells that play a role in the healing process from bacterial inflammation. “The process that we have discovered can assist in the development of drugs that are based on
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By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Is Jewish identity primarily national or religious? Though Judaism is, indeed, a combination of both (Jewish civilization, as Mordechai Kaplan called it), Zionism has put nationalism before religion. Being a Jew in Israel is much more being a member of the Jewish people than of the Jewish faith. The so-called conversion
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By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Last year the world marked the anniversary of Mahler’s birth and death, so that we were able to attend more performances of of his music than is usually the case. I was therefore not surprised to find that at the first concert of the season the Jerusalem
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Dorothea Shefer-VansonBET SHEMESH, Israel (Press Release)– ‘United with Israel’, a grass-roots pro-Israel organization started by American Jewish families living in Israel, has become the fastest-growing pro-Israel Facebook page on the web. In less than 3 months it has experienced explosive, viral growth, increasing its fan base by over 100,000 people. Israel supporters from all over the world have been joining
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said Tuesday that anti-Semitism was “front and center” at the Nation of Islam’s annual meeting near Chicago, and that the organization and its longtime leader, Louis Farrakhan, continue to engage in a targeted campaign against Jews. Minister Farrakhan’s February 27 keynote address featured a range of conspiratorial
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USASAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Rabbi Martin S. Lawson has announced his plans to retire as spiritual leader of Temple Emanu-El on June 30, 2012. “Although we are sad to see Rabbi Lawson leave in sixteen months, we will have been blessed with his spiritual leadership for 36 years,” said the congregation’s president Aaron Cohn. A
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Soille Hebrew Day School has announced that this summer Rabbi Meir Cohen will join its administrative team as the school’s Principal. “He is a brilliant, warm educator who is passionate about improving the lives of students, both academically and personally,” according to Rabbi Simcha Weiser, the headmaster. “Rabbi Cohen has succeeded in
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