By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — I am gravely concerned that the Obama-Clinton team is involved in an ongoing subversion policy not only on a national scale but on a global one. Certainly, as far as Israel is concerned there is a grand deception going on. In his UN General Assembly speech, President Obama spoke […]
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Barry Shaw, Middle EastHaving failed to make progress during the past eight years with Israel toward a two-state solution, President Obama acknowledged Wednesday that he’s turning over the challenge to the next president as he met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seal a new U.S. military aid package. “Obviously, I’m only going to be president for
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Middle East, USACHARLOTTE, North Carolina, September 21, 2016 – On September 20, 1881, one day after President James A. Garfield finally succumbed to a gunshot wound, Chester A. Arthur was sworn in as the 21st president of the United States. Today’s trivia entry is a tribute to this little known president who still claims title as having
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USAWASHINGTON — As the first debate of the presidential campaign approaches, voters are in an increasingly frustrated and unhappy mood, driven to their choices more often by dislike of the opposing candidate than admiration for their own, new polling data find. Nearly 6 in 10 voters described themselves as frustrated by this year’s campaign, according
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USALA JOLLA, California (Press Release) — The Holocaust Living History Workshop has announced three upcoming presentations to be delivered at the Geisel Library on the UCSD campus. Here is a short synopsis of each: The Power of One: The Holocaust in Bulgaria – with Aaron Cohen On March 1, 1941, Bulgaria officially joined the Axis
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Jewish History, San Diego CalendarLA JOLLA, California (Press Release) — One theme of the upcoming San Diego Jewish Book Fair will be the world of entertainment. Here are some highlights: Saturday, October 29 at 7:00 pm Rich Cohen The Sun & the Moon & the Rolling Stones This book is the journey of the Rolling Stones from a guy
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Nine Essential Things I’ve Learned About Life by Harold S. Kushner; Anchor Books (c) 2015; IBSN 9780804-173452; 171 pages, $15. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Rabbi Harold Kushner, famous since he wrote When Bad Things Happen to Good People, has a personal ritual which I found fascinating. “Before I sit down to write,
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish ReligionWashington (dpa) – Former president George HW Bush will reportedly not vote for the presidential candidate of his Republican Party, according to reports from those who have spoken with the centre-right party’s senior statesman. Word of Bush’s decision first came after a member of another prominent political clan, the Kennedys, met with the senior Bush.
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USAYoav Elitzur resides in Ofrah, the first Jewish community in the Binyamin area of Judea and Samaria in the modern age (founded in 1975). He has produced a short video, in Hebrew, in which he explains succinctly how the myth of, “privately-owned Arab lands in Judea and Samaria,” came to be. His explanation, if disseminated
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Middle EastPresident Reuven Rivlin this morning (Tuesday) met in his office with Lana Carrer, daughter of the Lucas Carrer, who served as Mayor of the Greek island of Zakynthos during the Nazi occupation of the island. Mayor Carrer, together with the local bishop, were responsible for saving the nearly 300 Jews who lived on the island
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International, Middle EastUK Prime Minister Theresa May met with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday at the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. In what was their first meeting, they discussed rebuilding the relationship between the two countries in the wake of last year’s nuclear deal. According to Iran’s Tasnim news site, May
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InternationalAlmost half of Australians would support a proposal to ban Muslim immigration down under, according to new polling. The leader of the right-wing populist One Nation leader Pauline Hanson put forward the policy in a speech last week in which she warned of Australia becoming “swamped” with Muslims. And more Australians back that proposal than
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InternationalCOLUMBUS, Ohio — What do voters hear when Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, in interview after interview, praises his running mate Donald Trump’s “broad shoulders”? What do they hear when Trump repeatedly criticizes Hillary Clinton for not looking presidential — “and you need a presidential look”? Or when he time and again calls into question her
NEW YORK — “I get really nervous when I’m reading about refugees. The stories are usually on page 32 and they all remind me of the past,” said Manfred Lindenbaum, 84. “Whenever I hear news reports of people crossing the border, the horror of it all, what followed afterwards, comes right back.” Lindenbaum was just
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