Donald H. Harrison

Outsiders who don’t understand Korea should be similarly modest about Israel

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–There is a lesson for the Middle East in the latest incident on the Korean peninsula. The lesson is indirect, and deals more with general principles than the details of what seems to have happened. I begin with the admission that I am a confused outsider on Korean issues. So–with respect to […]

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Adventures in San Diego, May 13, 1955, Part 3

  Mormons and Israel Southwestern Jewish Press, May 13, 1955, Page 5 The 125th anniversary of the Mormon Church in America must stir in many Americans of all faiths renewed admiration for the profound sense of religious and civic dedication which has characterized the founders and disciples of the Mormon Church. For American Jews, and

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Adventures in SD History, San Diego County

Why American airport security is really so horrendous

By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, ISRAEL — Security checks at American airports have become the most controversial topic in the United States. This debate is so full of mistaken assumptions and misleading ideas that it is hard to know where to start in analyzing it. Let’s consider the terrorist threat within the United States. The opening

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International, Middle East, USA

ADL: UN’s decision to commemorate Durban ‘outrageous and shameful’

UNITED NATIONS (Press Release)– The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday, Nov. 24,  expressed disappointment with a United Nations resolution to commemorate the Durban conference, calling it “outrageous and shameful.” On November 23, the United Nations’ Third Committee voted to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the infamous 2001 U.N. World Conference Against Racism, which was marred by

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Travel and Food

Campaign to gain clemency for Pollard gains steam

NEW YORK (Press Release)–The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is one of several Jewish groups that have worked to produce a Congressional letter to President Barack Obama, urging him to exercise clemency and release convicted Israeli spy, Jonathan Pollard. A Congressional letter, initiated by Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) written in coordination with a broad array

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USA

Anti-Semitic textbooks used in Muslim schools in Britain

LONDON (WJC)–Textbooks used in several Islamic schools in Britain promote anti-Semitic views, a BBC report has found. On textbook says Jews are cursed by God and “look like monkeys and pigs.” It also asks children to list the “reprehensible” qualities of Jews. The curriculum in several schools contains homophobic views and in a book for

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Travel and Food

World Jewish Congress welcomes Muslim center’s desire for inter-religious dialogue

CAIRO (WJC) — Rabbi Marc Schneier, vice-president of the World Jewish Congress and a pioneer in fostering closer Jewish-Muslim relations in North America and Europe, has praised leaders of the Al-Azhar Al-Sharif University in Cairo, the oldest center of Islamic scholarship in the world, for opening up inter-religious dialogue to the Jews. The ‘Banu Ibrahim

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Jewish Religion

Latest in delegitimization campaign: Palestinians say Kotel not Jewish

JERUSALEM (WJC) — Israel has called on the Palestinian leadership to publicly disassociate itself from a “scientific study” by a Palestinian Authority official which denies Jewish claims to the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site. PM Netanyahu’’s spokesman Mark Regev said: “This is not the sort of statement to be expected from a partner in peace.” He

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Middle East

Sermon on a rear window

SAN DIEGO–Melanie Rubin keeps costant vigil for Jewish license plates, but here she found a window sticker an a bumper sticker with Jewish content.  “Powered by Hashem” is another way of saying that God (Hashem) is responsible for everything, even including the laws of physics enabing the car to move. The bumper sticker, according to our

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Travel and Food

‘The Defiant Requiem’ electrifying under Sidlin’s baton

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — The back stage entrance guard of the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. ushered me in after checking my name from a list of 50. Conductor Murry Sidlin’s concert-drama, “The Defiant Requiem,” scheduled for October 6, had been  sold out since June 23. The best Murry could do was to invite me to

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Travel and Food

Haifa University confers honorary doctorate on OECD secretary general

HAIFA (Press Release) — Secretary-General of the OECD Angel Gurrίa received the University of Haifa’s highest accolade, the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, honoris causa, at a gala event at the University on Nov. 22. Gurrίa received the tribute in recognition of his efforts in promoting economic cooperation and for his friendship and longstanding support

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Middle East