Sen. Lindsey Graham: U.S.-Israel relations ‘aren’t the relationship of the leaders’ (JNS.org) Amid reports of bilateral tension following the Obama administration’s decision to delay a shipment of Hellfire missiles to Israel, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said the U.S.-Israel relationship is not defined by “the relationship of the leaders.” “Relations between Israel and the U.S. […]
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Travel and Food
LONDON (WJC) — Anti-Israel demonstrators in Britain attacked police and threw food products on the floor while calling on a local supermarket to stop selling Israeli goods. The protest occurred on Saturday at a Tesco supermarket in Birmingham, the newspaper ‘Daily Telegraph’ reported. A day later, a London outlet of the supermarket chain Sainsbury’s removed
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International, Middle East
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – For many people, longtime volunteer and former House of Israel President Seymour Teitelbaum, who died earlier last week, was synonymous with the House of Israel. His funeral services will be conducted at1 p.m.. Monday, August 18, at the Home of Peace Cemetery. Board member Sandy Golden, who met Teitelbaum when
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Obituaries & memorialsBy Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) – The current ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is to end Monday, Aug. 18, at midnight, and there is no clear indication whether the ceasefire will be extended again, whether an agreement will be reached or will Hamas renew its rocket attacks on Israeli civilian targets. As the Israeli delegation
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Middle EastShut up, I’m Talking….and Other Diplomacy Lessons I Learned in the Israeli Government by Gregory Levey. By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO–A young Jewish university student from Toronto finds himself, at the request of the Israeli Delegation, occupying a seat representing the State of Israel in the General Assembly of the United Nations. A vote begins
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International, Middle East
Twenty-Second in a Series By Donald H. Harrison WINSTON, Oregon – There’s an oft-told joke that in order to illustrate Isaiah’s well known prophecy (Isaiah 11: 6-9), a zoo exhibited a lion and a lamb together in the same cage. “That’s fantastic!” said one amazed visitor, “Who’d have dared to do such a thing! How
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Travel and Food, USABy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — I have been on vacation for the greater part of this past week. While I was away, I listened carefully to the news about a variety of social and international problems I will be addressing within the next several days. As details of the Michael Brown
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — Ferguson, Missouri, and the inexplicable shooting of teenager Michael Brown, represents not only the latest episode of America’s urban war against black men—it will be far from the last. Still unresolved is another horrifying racial incident in Miami Beach, Florida. Police there have still failed, ignominiously, to clear
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Two recent articles emerge from IDF’s operating in Gaza, and concern the tensions between Israel and other western democracies, most notably the United States. An item in the Wall Street Journal comes with the provocative headline, “Gaza Crisis: Israel Outflanks the White House on Strategy.” Could it possibly mean that
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Google “president disengaged” and 1,290,000 entries pop up. Okay, fair enough. Google is not the best way to take the measure of President Obama’s active engagement in the workings of the world. So note that today, Friday, Aug. 15, is the funeral of Maj. Gen. Harold Greene,
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Forty-six years ago in August 1968, the Chicago Police Department used excessive force to suppress demonstrators at the Democratic Convention. This week the Ferguson Police Department commemorated the event by reenacting it. * An Arizona high-school math teacher showed up to her class drunk and continued to consume alcohol
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireHebrew U. refuses to remove anti-Israel professor from advisory board role (JNS.org) The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has refused to remove Professor William Schabas from the advisory board of a law faculty publication despite his anti-Israel views, Israel Hayom reported. Schabas was recently appointed to head the U.N. Human Rights Council’s investigation into Israel’s conduct
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Travel and Food
-Twenty-first in a series– By Donald H. Harrison ROSEBURG, Oregon—Having written a biography of Louis Rose, the first Jewish settler in San Diego, I was anxious to learn about Aaron Rose, for whom this town in southwestern Oregon was named. He and Louis Rose were contemporaries. Furthermore, I was intrigued by the fact that an
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