By Isaac Yetiv , Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — The drafters of the US Constitution, fearing ” the rule of one opinion, whether of a tyrant or of a mob,” created a government structure premised on the idea that humans are fallible, fickle, and unreliable…and need to be feared. James Madison, who promoted this […]
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USABy Jay Shapiro JERUSALEM — Almost everyone seems to agree that the Iranian nuclear weapons project should be stopped. Preferably through economic sanctions against Iran, but if that doesn’t work, then military means will have to be used. But if a military operation is required, should it be carried out by the United States or
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Middle Eastwww.jns.org/news-briefs Anti-Semitic attacks in France up 40% since March, month of school shooting (JNS.org) French Jews have seen an uptick of 40 percent in anti-Semitic attacks since March, when Islamist terrorist Mohammed Merah killed three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in Toulouse, Reuters reported. According to Simon Wiesenthal Center Dean Abraham Cooper,
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InternationalDETROIT, Michigan (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Tuesday, Aug. 28, expressed outrage and horror at an alleged anti-Semitic hate crime against a student at Michigan State University. The student was knocked unconscious and had his mouth stapled shut by two men at a party, after the men allegedly asked the student if he
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By Judy Lash Balint JERUSAELM — Back in March 2003 when Rachel Corrie was killed while trying to prevent Israel from clearing ground to expose terrorist hiding places, I interviewed several International Solidarity Movement (ISM) people who were present in Rafiah that day. Having lived for many years in Washington State where Corrie attended
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By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California —One of my favorite lines from Simon and Garfunkel’s greatest hits reads: Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you (Woo, woo, woo) What’s that you say, Mrs. Robinson Joltin’ Joe has left and gone away (Hey, hey, hey…hey, hey, hey)
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By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO –None of them who planned it—and it was not very well planned—were certain it would succeed. Nor was it some kind of new idea. A. Philip Randolph, the wiry, erudite, socialist equivalent of MLK one generation earlier, had actually conceived of mass march on the capital, one that would
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM– Israeli courts dealt with two separate cases on Tuesday that touched related features central to the country’s history and–perhaps–to its future. In one, a lower court in Haifa dismissed a suit by the parents of Rachel Corrie, seeking to force Israel to admit responsibility for her death on a battlefield in Gaza
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California —Last week, I received an email from the Reelect-elect Obama campaign. The President is urging rabbis to help re-elect the President. The email contained the following information and assertions: Obama for America today announced the launch of Rabbis for Obama, a campaign initiative to engage and mobilize grassroots
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By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The government of South Africa has defined the State of Israel as not including Beersheva, Yad Mordechai, Acco, Afula, and Nahariya. It creates an “Arab Enclave” in Jaffa not governed by Israel. It reduces the borders of Israel in two places to points on a map — one in
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenIDF develops innovative bulletproof grenade JNS.org The bulletproof grenade was developed following a March 2010 incident on the Gaza Strip border in which two IDF soldiers were killed when a bullet hit a grenade lodged in the vest of one of the soldiers, causing it to detonate. “After that incident, we were ordered to develop
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –The status of nuclear weapons in Israel bears some tantalizing resemblance to the status of the Almighty in Judaism. Those concerned with the history and role of God can click here, and continue further for as many years as the interest or life continues. It is risky in the extreme to summarize
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO –In this heady time of national decision, the Hebrew Scripture unhesitatingly calls for appropriate restraints on any king. It’s fair to say that the notion of “limited government” and “checks and balances” are not recent manifestations; they’re actually 3,000 years old and come straight out of Deuteronomy and, hopefully,
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