By James Colbert WASHINGTON, D.C. — With his most recent comments in London last week, Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, put a greater distance between the United States and Israel over a potential attack against Iran. “I don’t want to be complicit if they [Israel] choose to do it,” […]
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-Second in a series- By Donald H. Harrison ENCINITAS, California — Gardeners sometimes will debate whether certain “companion plants” will help each other. For example, will planting onions really ward off insect pests that feast on bean plants? However, at the San Diego Botanic Garden here, there is general agreement that a genuinely symbiotic relationship
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Daniel Pipes “President Obama has thrown allies like Israel under the bus.” That’s what Mitt Romney, Republican candidate for president, said in the high-profile speech accepting his party’s nomination last week, repeating a slang phrase for sacrificing a friend for selfish reasons. Romney had deployed this phrase before, for example in May 2011 and
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USAAhmadinejad admits sanctions hurting Iranian economy (JNS.org) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinehad on Tuesday admitted that the West’s sanctions have created problems for the Islamic Republic’s oil exports and banking. “There are barriers in transferring money, there are barriers in selling oil,” he said on television, according to Israel Hayom. The West has launched an “all-out
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By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK — It is a question which I learned never to ask. I first learned this lesson in my training as a psychotherapist, long ago. I was seeing a gentleman for a number of problems, including his marital difficulties. Despite the passage of the years, I still vividly remember
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Jewish Religion
By Sara Appel-Lennon DEL MAR, California — Former San Diego Padres catcher Brad Ausmus, 43, said he can walk in his Del Mar neighborhood without being recognized since he only played for the San Diego Padres for three years, from 1993-1996. “I’m just like anyone else. Works for me” said Ausmus. But Ausmus played in
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San Diego CalendarBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — My most recent column, asking if Israel and the United States are friends, brought forth some of the nasty stuff that is known to exist, but is disturbing when it comes to light. Among the comments sent to the Jerusalem Post blog section “WE ARE NOT FRIENDS. Get it through
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Story and photos by Donald H. Harrison ENCINITAS, California — The Treehouse at the San Diego Botanic Garden here might have been called “The Leichtag Family Foundation’s Treehouse” but Rabbi Lenore Bohm says that wouldn’t have been in keeping with Toni Leichtag’s lack of pretentiousness. Instead, Bohm suggested, and fellow members of the
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By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Before the pundits start telling you the Romney campaign stepped into a time-warp on the subject of Russia, it’s worth considering what adviser Rich Williamson said and what it means. “They’re trampling civil rights,” and “they’re our foe,” and “they’ve chosen a path of confrontations, not cooperation.” Pierre-Richard Prosper,
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Shoshana Bryen, USABy Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org The evacuation of all 50 Jewish families in Israel’s Migron outpost was completed on Sunday evening without major incident. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the successful and peaceful evacuation—but vowed that his government would continue to strengthen Jewish communities in the West Bank. Speaking at an event to celebrate
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Middle EastMoody’s credit rating agency compliments Israel’s financial conduct (JNS.org) International credit ratings corporation Moody’s presented a positive evaluation of Israel’s economy in its latest report, issued Monday, according to Israel Hayom. The agency says Israel is economically strong, institutionally and fiscally, and has the capability to weather tough global economic crises, as it did in
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InternationalBy Maxine Dovere/JNS.org WASHINGTON—Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is no longer simply a responder to questions about faith or relationships raised by the rich and famous, or merely a recipient of national and international attention for his 27 books or his “Shalom in the Home” broadcasts. These days, Boteach is a political contender in a serious
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By Dorothea Shefer Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — A few years ago I was asked to prepare the text for a website for Joseph Hirsch (1920-1997), a highly regarded Israeli artist who also happened to be my mother’s first cousin (double first cousin, actually, as two brothers had married two sisters in pre-WW1 Germany, one
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Dorothea Shefer-VansonBy Raymond Ibrahim NEW YORK — Several reports appearing in July indicate that Christian minorities all around the Muslim world—especially women and children—are being abducted, tortured, raped, forced to convert to Islam, and/or enslaved. In Egypt, at least 550 such cases have been documented in the last five years, and have only increased since the
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