The Jewish comedians: David Brenner
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AJC wishes Tsipras success as Greece’s new P.M.
NEW YORK (Press Release)–The American Jewish Committee (AJC) congratulated Alexis Tsipras, head of the Syriza political party, which convincingly won Greece’s national elections on Sunday, Jan. 25. Tsipras will serve as prime minister in the next government, succeeding Prime Minister Antonis Samaras. “Greece continues to face enormous economic and social challenges that will engage the incoming
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International, Middle East, USAWhy Mr. Netanyahu goes to Washington
By Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — The New York Times editorialized that the recently scheduled, third speech by Prime Minister Netanyahu to Congress will harm US-Israel ties. The Times of Israel quoted a White House spokesman that “Netanyahu spat in our face.” What’s the furor about? After all, Netanyahu is not the first foreign statesman
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USAHumoring the headlines: January 26, 2015
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu will tell Congress that Israel faces an imminent nuclear attack if Iran is allowed to manufacture an atom bomb. At the end of his speech, he will urge American Jews to make Aliyah to Israel because it is the only place Jews can be safe. *
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireSome spiritual advice for Super Bowl
By Rabbi Rafi Andrusier LA MESA, California — The big Super Bowl game day is coming up and everyone has a favorite team to root for. So here is the question one may suggest: I’ve been praying all season long, and my team didn’t even get close to the playoffs. So how can I have faith in
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Jewish Religion, Sports & Competitions, USAJewish interest license plate: BASHIRT
SAN DIEGO — Charles Burton sent this photo in, and if it seems a little blurry, well perhaps it was so destined!
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Trivia, Humor & SatireSunday news shows examine Bibi- Barack flap
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—The flap over House Speaker John Boehner’s invitation to Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu to speak before a Joint Session of Congress, and the latter’s acceptance, without either man checking with President Barack Obama first, was a point of discussions on the Sunday morning television news shows. On CBS’s Face
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USAJewish interest license plates: ‘EEMAH’
SAN DIEGO–Melanie Rubin, our license plate maven and spotter-in-chief, describes this one, appropriately, as “the mother of all license plates.”
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & SatireNetanyahu tells Cabinet why he’ll address Congress
JERUSALEM (Press Release)–Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, at the start of his weekly Cabinet meeting, explained why he has accepted the invitation from the Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner, to address a joint session of Congress. Here is the text of his remarks: “In the coming weeks, the major powers are liable
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Middle East, USAAmanda Rothschild and the state of the restaurant
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—A video of U.S. President Barack Obama eating lunch at Charmington’s Restaurant in Baltimore with several women including the restaurant’s managing partner, Amanda Rothschild, was distributed by the White House during the week leading up to the President’s State of the Union Address on January 20 in which he called
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Donald H. Harrison, USAViolent racism practiced by some Israeli Jews
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–In the post-World II Poland of my childhood it was dangerous for Jews – as it had been before the Holocaust – to walk in the streets lest thugs attacked them. That’s why I wasn’t sent to a local school when we returned from the Soviet Union in 1946 but had
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Middle EastFemale freedom fighter’s story unfinished
By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — Hanna Armoni’s Are You Waiting for Eliahu?: The Story of a Woman Freedom Fighter, 1942-1948 (Yair Publishing, 2007) is a book with a difficult autobiographical story to tell. As a youngster living in pre-Israel Palestine, she joined the Lehi, one of several underground insurgency groups determined to oust the British
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Travel and FoodU.N has done little good since Korea
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The UN may do good somewhere, but the case would take some convincing. Its people are spread throughout the Third World. All told, they are probably not worse than the governments they are meant to help. We often see UN vehicles and personnel in our neighborhood. They are here to help the
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