International

‘Apologize or resign!’ StandWithUs urges EU ‘diplomat’

  PARIS (Press Release)–StandWithUs France condemns High Representative of the European Union, Catherine Ashton, for her statement regarding the brutal, anti-Semitic murders of four people at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France on Monday. As France reels in horror at this attack, together with the global Jewish community and all people of conscience, High Representative

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International

Confused about Iran’s nuclear program? Everybody else is too

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Earlier this week, Israeli media headlined that “’Mossad, CIA agree Iran has yet to decide to build nuclear weapon.” The story went on to say that “New York Times report quotes senior American officials who believe there is little disagreement between Israeli and U.S. intelligence over Iran’s nuclear program, despite

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

If Syria, Egypt have zero to fear from U.S, why should Iran?

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — “What is being done in Homs [Syria] . . . is simply appalling and shouldn’t be allowed to stand in our world,” said British Prime Minister David Cameron in Washington. The British, he said, are cataloguing “these crimes,” and Asad should “always remember that international law has got a long reach

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Shoshana Bryen, USA

Jewish groups react in pain to French school murders

  NEW YORK (Press Release)–The Jewish  Federations of North America is shocked and outraged at Monday’s tragic terror  attack on a Jewish school in southern France that has left at least four dead,  including three children. Early news indicates that a terrorist on a motorcycle carried out a fatal shooting outside Ozar Hatorah, a Jewish school

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International, Yeruchem Eilfort-Rabbi

RJC says Republicans more favorable than Democrats to Israel

WASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release) —  The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) on Friday released an analysis of support for Israel broken down by political affiliation that reveals a clear “Israel Gap” between the parties. Republican support for Israel is 25 points higher than Democratic support, and according to Gallup, only a bare majority, 53% of Democrats, express

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USA

World depends on U.S.; yet elections decided on domestic issues

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It should be no surprise that the excitment of the American presidential campaign deals with domestic issues. The American voter is not responsible for his or her country being the most prominent in the world, with its hands almost everywhere. They are concerned that jobs, housing, and other needs are more

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Ira Sharkansky, USA

Mishnah could teach TSA a lesson about dignity

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel SAN DIEGO — At our downtown TBS Jewish business ethics class, we discussed an interesting subject dealing with the problem of suspicion. The beginning of Parshat Pikudei (Vyakhale-Pikudei), Moses presents a complete inventory of  all the items that he and the priests collected for the Tabernacle (Exod. 38:21) Moses gives

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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USA

Panetta disrespected Marines fighting in Afghanistan

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was to address a mixed U.S.-Afghan audience at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan only weeks after six American solders were killed by Afghan soldiers, and days after an American soldier allegedly killed 16 Afghan civilians. That circumstance alone would ensure a tense atmosphere, but the decision

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Shoshana Bryen, USA

Another kind of Holocaust denial: denying that it’s over

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Saul Singer is the author, together with his brother-in-law Dan Senor, of the widely acclaimed, Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle. I’m pretty sure that he hasn’t read of my book, Beyond Survival or even heard of it.  Nevertheless, he almost quotes from it. Hence these reflections.

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Middle East