NEW YORK (Press Release) – EL AL Israel Airlines and JetBlue Airways (Nasdaq: JBLU) on Monday, Sept. 29 filed with the United States Department of Transportation seeking approval to codeshare. Subject to government approval, EL AL plans to place its “LY” code on select JetBlue-operated flights to/from New York (JFK/Newark), expanding options for EL AL customers throughout the […]
El Al and Jet Blue seek to codeshare Read More »
Travel and FoodBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Thirteen years ago this October, we started bombing Muslims in the Middle East. We’re still bombing them. Does any sane person think that 13 years from now, we’re not going to still be bombing them?” Democratic operative James Carville answered his own question. “Of course we will. And… maybe
Wars must have clear goals Read More »
Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABiden’s new national security advisor scrutinized over policy on Israel, Iran (JNS.org) Dr. Colin Kahl, Vice President Joe Biden’s newly appointed national security advisor, has come under the microscope for his positions on Israel and Iran’s nuclear program. Kahl previously served as the top civilian Pentagon Middle East advisor for former defense secretaries Robert Gates
JNS news brief: September 29, 2014 Read More »
Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — What do the 1861 attack on Fort Sumter, Germany’s 1941 attack on Russia, Pearl Harbor, and 9-11 have in common? They represent an adversary’s error that brought upon it a greater power, and–in the case of the first three–eventual destruction. We’re still seeing the playing out of 9-11, principally now
Abbas wounded by ‘shrapnel’ from his verbal bombs Read More »
Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Anyone who has taken piano lessons for any length of time has put his hands to Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer”. It takes hours of dedicated practice to master. But once you get the feel of it, it’s a lot of fun to play. Spawned in the honky tonks
Play about Scott Joplin is electrifying Read More »
Travel and FoodJudaism in Transition: How Economic Choices Shape Religious Tradition by Carmel U. Chiswick, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA; ISBN 978-0-8047-7605-9 ©2014, $22.95, p. 201, plus Reference material By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — Words to an old folksong read, “If religion were a thing that money could buy, then the rich would live and the poor
Affiliation choices often depend on time and $$$ Read More »
Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish ReligionBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – I have been a journalist, believe it or not, for over a half century, having received my start as a cub reporter in 1962 on the UCLA Daily Bruin, working for the Associated Press for five years after graduation, and then serving for another eight years as the
‘Schlepping Through the American West’ launches Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — One of Israel’s recent headline grabbing political event was the decision of the Supreme Court, against the government policy to place, without individual trials, illegal immigrants in something between a prison and an open facility deep in the desert for a period of up to three years. Insofar as the
Israel’s high court weighs in on illegal migrants Read More »
Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — When I first heard on the radio that President Obama had decided to dispatch 3,000 troops to Africa to fight Ebola, I thought I was mistaken; I couldn’t believe my ears. But later the same day, it was clearly confirmed. This is another unilateral executive decision that
Mistake to send troops to fight Ebola Read More »
International, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-San Diego) praised the Obama Administration for its new regulations to boost financial protections for military families – an issue that Davis has championed in Congress. “These added protections will help end the vicious cycle of high interest rates, high debt, and allow servicemembers to get their
Davis praises new regs on service personnel finances Read More »
USANEW YORK (Press Release)– AJC called Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s address to the UN General Assembly a rhetorical cocktail of hatred, deceit and distortion. Once again, as in his previous UN speeches, Abbas undermined prospects for advancing peace. “President Abbas today offered no fresh ideas, indeed no hope for peace,” said AJC Executive Director
AJC: Abbas speech ‘work of verbal arsonist’ Read More »
Travel and Food
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)- Israel Hechter, the owner of San Diego-based mortgage investment firms Ocean 18, LLC, and Note Tracker Corporation, admitted in federal court on Friday, Sept. 26, that he paid $1 million in bribes to bank insiders at J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, GMAC Mortgage, LLC, and National City Bank. According to his plea
Hechter family pleads guilty in bank bribery Read More »
San Diego CountyBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ The first female pilot from the United Arab Emirates participated in the bombing sorties against ISIS in Syria. The UAE news agency refers to her as the country’s veiled threat. * Dick Cheney criticized President Obama for mentioning the racial tension in Ferguson during his UN speech this week. According
Humoring the Headlines: September 26, 2014 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireAnd Give Up Showbiz: How Fred Levin Beat Big Tobacco, Avoided Two Murder Prosecutions, Became a Chief of Ghana, Earned Boxing Manager of the Year & Transformed American Law’ by Josh Young By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –You might not know who Fred Levin is but after you finish reading And Give Up Showbiz you will.
Tales of a trial lawyer who never gives up Read More »
USA