By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — As a child living in Israel, I used to look out onto the horizon from my grandmother’s simple porch. I vividly remember the dusty little village of Kfar-Saba, some fifteen miles east of Tel Aviv, nestled against a thick patch of orange groves and in the shadow of […]
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Responses are all over the map to Barack Obama’s highly touted speech on the Middle East and North Africa. Take your pick: from indifference to despair, excitement and anger. There was enough in it for everyone. The mention of 1967 borders brought one of Benyamin Netanyahu’s instant responses, described as “icy” by
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By Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO — President Obama’s speech is the most recent in a series of events that change the landscape of the Middle East. The Arab Spring, the killing of Osama bin Laden and the accord between Fatah and Hamas all have come in a matter of weeks. More changes in the Middle
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By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Most of the media focus of the President’s speech appears to be on his belief that Israel should shrink to the 1967 borders – with minimal land swaps – and should make that deal even before discussing the status of Jerusalem (the capital of the Jewish people and never
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USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the Arab Spring slides into summer, with all its emerging difficulties, President Obama plans to address the region. What can he say in the middle of a process that surely will have starts and stops, forward motion and regression? How can he help in the name of the
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By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California–My tailor grandfather taught me the difference between being a Jew and being honored. When I was a little boy, holding my grandfather’s hand as we exited the synagogue, all the well-dressed people were walking around a disheveled, crying man at the bottom of the steps. My grandfather immediately went up
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. — Representatives Howard L. Berman (D-CA), Trent Franks (R-AZ), Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) and Robert J. Dold (R-IL) on Monday led a bi-partisan letter signed by 64 Members of Congress urging the House Judiciary Committee to swiftly reauthorize the “Lautenberg Amendment,” which is a lifeline for historically persecuted minorities escaping to seek refuge
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), ranking Democrat on the Appropriations State and Foreign Operations Subcommittee, Monday issued the following statement about this weekend’s events in the Middle East: “This weekend’s events in the Middle East illustrate once again the existential threats Israel faces. As protesters rebel against authoritarian regimes throughout the Middle East, the
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Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Maryland) and Susan Collins, (R-Maine) on Monday introduced a resolution in the Senate that expresses opposition to Palestinian efforts to seek unilateral recognition at the United Nations and states its firm belief that any Palestinian unity government must publicly and formally forswear terrorism, accept Israel’s right to exist, and reaffirm
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–On Nakba Day, thousands of Palestinians from Syria and Lebanon, as well as Gaza, marched toward Israel. On the border between the Golan Heights and Syria, the IDF was expecting the focus to be somewhere else, and by the time a handful of soldiers came to confront the marchers, some 150 of
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Roz Rothstein and Roberta P. Seid, PhD IRVINE, California — Here we go again. It’s spring, and for the Muslim Student Union (MSU) at UC Irvine (UCI), spring means it’s time for the MSU’s annual weeklong propaganda parade of hate programs against Israel and calls for punishing it with boycotts and divestment. Forget the
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USA(SDJW Editor’s Note: The following interview of J.J. Surbeck, executive director of T.E.A.M. was conducted by The California Review, a conservative student publication at the University of California at San Diego. It is reprinted with the permission of that publication. ) J.J. Surbeck is a San Diego peace activist who serves as the Executive Director of
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — “Israel may be 63 years old today but its days are numbered.” So declared one of several thousand frenzied Arab protestors along one of three borders with Israel who broke into mayhem and violence yesterday—the May 14th anniversary of Israel’s independence (Huffington News). I don’t think so. The
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“We are only 6% of the world population. We cannot impose our will on the other 94%. We cannot right every wrong, reverse each adversity…We cannot be the American solution to every world problem.” —John F. Kennedy “We have no commission from God to police the world.”—Benjamin Harrison By Isaac Yetiv LA JOLLA, California — “In foreign affairs,” De
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