By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–“To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.” The source is Winston Churchill, on the occasion of a White House meeting with Dwight Eisenhower in 1954, to co-ordinate positions against Communism when Vietnam was a serious blot on the horizon. It also helps to explain the efforts of Barack Obama and John […]
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Ira Sharkansky, USABy Yiftach Levy SAN DIEGO –Dr. Daniel Pipes is a study in contrasts. He’s a Jewish American historian whose specialty is Islam and the Middle East. He’s a PhD who doesn’t work in academia. But perhaps no dichotomy is as jarring as his soft-spoken manner compared with his subject matter. Sitting across from him at
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Travel and FoodBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –A maxim in the United States Army is, “Don’t tell a soldier to do something; tell him what you want done.” President Roosevelt didn’t tell General Eisenhower to cross the English Channel; he told him to obtain the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany. A counterexample can be found in the
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen(Editor’s Note: The following article by the leadership of the Zionist Organization of America questions the motives of J-Street. San Diego Jewish World will make its pages available to J Street, should it desire, for a reply) By Morton A. Klein and Daniel Mandel NEW YORK — J Street describes itself as Zionist, pro-Israel, pro-peace and
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USABy Alan Elsner WASHINGTON, D.C – Now that some time has gone by since President Obama delivered his historic speech to the Israeli people, we can look back and reassess some of the messages he intended to convey In the immediate aftermath, there was some debate on how to interpret the address. Was it a “win”
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Middle EastEditor’s Note: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has been traveling in Israel. Here are the texts of his remarks prior to a meeting with Israel’s President Shimon Peres, and Kerry’s comments to State Department employees at the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem: Secretary Kerry’s comments with President Shimon Peres: Well, Mr. President, thank you very,
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Middle EastTEL AVIV (Press Release)— Several studies have examined the impact of stress on a pregnancy — both chronic stress, such as workload, and acute stress associated with traumatic events like the 9/11 terrorist attacks. They conclude that stress can lead to adverse birth outcomes, including miscarriage and premature birth. Few studies, however, assess the impact
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Cynthia Citron BURBANK, California — In 1943 two highly unlikely collaborators quarreled their way through a movie script that earned the anxious concern of the Breen Office (administrator of the industry’s moral censorship guidelines), and was nominated for seven Academy Awards without winning any. The collaborators were Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler, and the
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Cynthia CitronMargaret Thatcher ‘untouched by anti-Semitism’ (JNS.org) Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, died at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke Monday. Thatcher represented the Conservative Party and in 1987 famously said, “There is no such thing as society.” The “Iron Lady,” as she was nicknamed, also forged close relations with Britain’s
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InternationalBy Navras Jaat Aafreedi, PhD GREATER NOIDA, Uttar Pradesh, India — India’s only Academy Award winning screenwriter, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, a European Jew, who was based in New Delhi for 24 years, from 1951 until 1975, when she moved to New York, passed away on April 3, 2013. She wrote for films directed and co-produced
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — As a child of a Holocaust survivor, I find it hard to believe that the generation of my aunts and uncles, and father is rapidly coming to an end. The world gets older by the day; my family used to have a large number of relatives
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Donor Luncheon to Mark ‘Sweet Sixteen’ Southwestern Jewish Press, May 17, 1957, Page 4 “… and the desert shall bloom” has been selected by Chairman, Mrs. Elmer Wohl and her co-Chairman, Mrs. Sam Cohen, as the theme for Hadassah’s Donor Luncheon to be presented on Thursday, June 20, in the Palm Room of the U.S.
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistoryBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — While the United States, not least the State Department, is trying to deal with the crisis caused by the renewed belligerence of North Korea, the US Secretary of State John Kerry is again in the Middle East in his continued effort to help bring peace to the region by
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Yet another Holocaust Memorial Day is upon us, and no surprise that it is competing in the media with yet another rumble concerned with the elusive peace process that some hope may establish Israel beyond the fear of another Holocaust. Actual survivors are said to be dying at the rate
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