Donald H. Harrison

Iranian nukes, Palestinian stones top list of Israeli worries

By  Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — You want irony? The most obvious problem on our horizon involves Iran seemingly intent on acquiring nuclear weapons, and the world’s greatest power claiming to have our interests at heart. but with a President and Secretary of State who are sounding like Neville Chamberlain. Another problem that may be equally […]

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

SDJW columnist, defending his bubbe’s honor, challenges his editor’s wife to a juried mandelbread tasting contest

By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California — San Diego Jewish World‘s Editor/ Publisher Don Harrison is proud (or else must go on a diet, which Don’s supporters know he is incapable of) of his wife Nancy’s mandelbread, but ensured a favorable verdict by using his family – under the eye of Nancy – to taste Papa Ben’s Kitchen

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Donald H. Harrison

U.S. needs strategy against worldwide jihadists

By James Colbert WASHINGTON, D.C. –As the eleventh anniversary of 9/11 passes, the Administration considers al Qaeda all but defeated, and eagerly anticipates a downsized U.S. military and its reorientation to Asia and the Pacific. But, to paraphrase Mark Twain’s famous quip, reports of al Qaeda’s death are greatly exaggerated. Despite President Obama’s assertion, made

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USA

On the trail of Ernest Bloch

By Eileen Wingard PORTLAND, Oregon–Swiss-born composer, Ernest Bloch, is considered to be the greatest 20th century figure to incorporate Jewish motifs into his music.  One may safely say that every recognized violinist, today, knows his Baal Shem Suite; every violist has studied the Suite Hebraique; and every cello soloist includes Bloch’s inspiring Shelomo in his

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Eileen Wingard

Israel’s Jews in more danger than others in the world

                  By Peter Rothholz/JNS.org EAST HAMPTON, NY—For the first time since its founding in 1948, Israel is now the most dangerous place in the world for Jews. That is the assessment of Mort Zuckerman—editor in chief of U.S. News &World Report, publisher of the New York Daily News, and past chairman of the Conference of

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Middle East

Israel tight-lipped over report on strike on Syria reactor

By Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org Israel was tight-lipped following Monday’s extensive revelations by The New Yorker magazine about the September 2007 bombing of a Syrian nuclear reactor which, according to foreign sources, was carried out by the Israel Air Force. Israel has never taken officially responsibility for the incident. Then-Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. (res.)

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Middle East

Iran not close to a bomb? That’s what CIA said about Russia

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C–Jerusalem and the resettlement of Palestinian refugees disappeared from the Democratic Party platform; language that characterized Hamas as unacceptable to the United States — not only to Israel — disappeared. Jerusalem is back. But the crucial part of the Democratic Party Platform for Israel is related only tangentially to Israel. It

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

Imagine! Anti-circumcision, ‘pro-Israel’ Germans

Commentary by Clemens Heni           BERLIN — On Sunday, September 9, 2012, the first ever rally  favoring circumcision and Jewish (and Muslim) life in Germany was held in Berlin. In May 2012 a Cologne court had ruled against a Muslim circumcision and generalized that the rights of children are threatened by every single circumcision, regardless at

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