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Libyan dictator’s violent death depicts neighborhood in which Israel lives

October 21, 2011

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — You’ve heard that a picture is worth a thousand words. You’ve seen the pictures of Muammar Qaddifi’s death. Given the comments of Barack Obama and the analysis that appeared in the New York Times, I’m not at that sure that enough American understand what they have seen. Recall George W. […]

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ZOA: Israel paid too high a price for Gilad Shalit

October 19, 2011

By Morton A. Klein and Dr. Daniel Mandel NEW YORK– Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier kidnapped in 2006 and held captive in Hamas-controlled Gaza, has been freed. This is a joyous day for him, his family and world Jewry. However, is the price Israel paid – the freeing 1,027 Palestinians prisoners, including hundreds of convicted,

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Middle East

Secular Jews fret over Haredim and Arabs in neighborhood

October 19, 2011

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s hard to believe after a week of Gilad Shalit, but there are other happenings in this world that we share with the goyim. Today it was only necessary to reach page 12 in Ha’aretz to find something happening outside of Israel and its immediate neighbors. News from over the

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Middle East

Plant a Tree for free for Gilad Shalit

October 18, 2011

SAN DIEGO — The following offer from Jewish National Fund to plant for free a tree in Israel in honor of Galid Shalit’s release was received Tuesday morning, October 18, at San Diego Jewish World, and verified by telephone with the public relations department of JNF in New York City: Plant a tree for FREE

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Middle East

Questions remain as prisoner transfer begins

October 18, 2011

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–As I am beginning this column, it is 6 AM and the radio is reporting the many details of the transfer of prisoners toward their exchange for Gilad Shalit. It is not the excitement that put me to work this early. Generally my old bones achieve the rest they need earlier than

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

‘Occupy’ movement is Civil Rights movement of today

October 17, 2011

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — It seems that many are dismissive of the ‘Occupy’ movement that is proliferating in American cities and some foreign communities as well. It was described as “mobs” by at least one leading Congressman who derides the movement. Not. It’s an amalgam of socially disenfranchised low-income people, unemployed professionals,

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USA

New Palestinian state would be anti-Semitic and homophobic

October 17, 2011

By Lillian Faderman and Roz Rothstein LOS ANGELES -Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas formally asked the United Nations on September 23 to recognize a Palestinian state. And on September 28 the application was passed to a standing committee that must now review whether to return to the pre-1967 borders. Abbas’s bid doesn’t just violate past

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Middle East

Jewish survival depends on Israel’s

October 16, 2011

By Rabbi Dow Marmur TORONTO, Canada — The most cited call for Jewish survival after the Holocaust came from Canada. The late Emil Fackenheim, University of Toronto philosophy professor, argued that the tragedy the Nazis inflicted on the Jewish people had given rise to a new commandment to be added to the biblical 10: in

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Middle East

Changing the system requires agreed-upon goals

October 16, 2011

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — A headline in today’s Ha’aretz, “From New York to Tokyo, demonstrations in more than 900 cities and 80 countries against capitalism and in behalf of social reform. In Tel Aviv they blocked streets.” Another item reports that a Reuters survey in the United States found 38 percent viewing the demonstrations

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Misgivings abound over prisoner swap with Hamas

October 12, 2011

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — For the last several years we have included in every daily minyan, Shabbat, and holiday service a prayer for the captured Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, and the captured American soldier, Bowe Bergdahl. At the conclusion of this morning’s service I announced that, God willing, soon we will no

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Middle East

Shalit personifies adage ‘Save a single life, and you save the whole world.’

October 12, 2011

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO –He is ever so slight, frail-looking, and, in many ways, the physical antithesis of the perceived, muscular modern Israeli soldier. In fact, Israel Defense Forces originally labeled him almost too delicate a young man to even be inducted into its lauded Army, someone with “a low medical profile.” But

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Middle East

Shalit exchange required both sides to compromise

October 12, 2011

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — I told you so. A short while after finishing my column on politics (Every day you may have to eat –), Israel’s leadership proved it was up to the task. In a dramatic announcement timed for the evening news, including an on-camera announcement by the prime minister, we heard the

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Will Shalit-for-1000 trade bring more terror?

October 12, 2011

By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM–Very distressing to see the singing and dancing going on at the Shalit tent outside Netanyahu’s office a few blocks away from here as the announcement that Israel had agreed to release more than a thousand terrorists, including hundreds who were serving life sentences for terror attacks such as the Sbarro

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Middle East

Potential release of Gilad Shalit hailed

October 11, 2011

NEW YORK (Press Release) – The Jewish Federations of North America heralded the announcement on Tuesday of the potentially impending release of Israel Defense Forces Corporal Gilad Shalit after more than five years in Hamas captivity. According to Israeli and U.S. media reports, Shalit will be freed in a prisoner exchange that will bring his

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Middle East

Libyan dictator’s violent death depicts neighborhood in which Israel lives

ZOA: Israel paid too high a price for Gilad Shalit

Secular Jews fret over Haredim and Arabs in neighborhood

Plant a Tree for free for Gilad Shalit

Questions remain as prisoner transfer begins

‘Occupy’ movement is Civil Rights movement of today

New Palestinian state would be anti-Semitic and homophobic

Jewish survival depends on Israel’s

Changing the system requires agreed-upon goals

Misgivings abound over prisoner swap with Hamas

Shalit personifies adage ‘Save a single life, and you save the whole world.’

Shalit exchange required both sides to compromise

Will Shalit-for-1000 trade bring more terror?

Potential release of Gilad Shalit hailed

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