By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — Today, May 14, is the sixty-second anniversary of the independence of the State of Israel—which had been voted into existence by the Security Council of the United Nations. We have no apologies; we are elated; we regret that the two-state solution legislated by the UN at that time has […]
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Middle EastSACRAMENTO (Press Release)–California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner on Thursday announced that 1,010 insurance companies – more than 75 percent of insurers licensed to do business in California — have agreed to forgo future investments in 50 companies identified as doing business with Iran’s nuclear, energy or defense sectors. “This is a great victory for California
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–We all know that the devil is in the details, and that the language of politics is hyperbole. Those two platitudes will come together in the “proximity talks” between Israel and Palestine that the Americans are reminding us that they worked so hard to create. They may well doom the talks, assuming
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Roz Rothstein and Roberta R. Seid LOS ANGELES– An increasing number of students report that efforts to demonize Israel have intensified on college campuses. Most recently, the student senates at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), held marathon debates about anti-Israel divestment resolutions. In May, the annual Hate
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release)– The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday expressed its appreciation to University of California officials for their strong, unequivocal statement in which they announced their decision not to recommend to the university’s board divestment from companies doing business with Israel. Student organizations at the University of California recently put forward two bills
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By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C.–The 2010 JINSA Flag & General Officers Trip to Israel took place during a period of political frustration between the United States and Israel on several fronts. The JINSA group, comprised of six recently retired American Admirals and Generals plus two JINSA officers and a staff professional, spent 10 days traveling
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Except for the fact that there are no moving sidewalks—or vehicles with safety bars that snap you in for a ride—the new Mormon Battalion Museum at Old Town San Diego is similar to a Disneyland experience. It is high-tech, interactive, and well thought out every step of
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Donald H. Harrison, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Dr. Chanan Naveh, visting Israeli scholar at San Diego State University, will be speaking at Congregation Dor Hadash at 7:30pm , Friday, June 11th on the topic of “New Media in the New Middle East: The Palestinian Israeli Web War.” Dr. Naveh is a senior lecturer and academic advisor in the School of Communications,
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Middle EastHAIFA (Press Release)–The University of Haifa will award the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, honoris causa, to Dr. Albert Lincoln, Secretary-General of the Bahá’í International Community, during the University’s 38th Meeting of the Board of Governors, which will take place on June 1-3. The honorary doctorate will be conferred upon Dr. Lincoln in recognition of
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM– This is a wonderful city for those who admire the past and live to celebrate it. Three thousand years supplies more than enough heroes to fill every square and street corner with memorial sites. Insofar as both Jewish and Muslim traditions condemn graven images, we are saved the grandiose statuary that marks
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C–The Jewish and Christian holy days of Passover and Easter have passed; Shavuot and Pentecost are coming. In between, the 28th of Iyar-corresponding to 7 June 1967 and 12 May 2010-marks the unification of Jerusalem in the hands of the State of Israel. The city has been occupied over time
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Shoshana Bryen, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—The exterior of the San Diego House adobe in Old Town San Diego State Historic Park is unremarkable, but historians will tell you that the building had a way of attracting to its ownership over the last century and a half the kind of people of whom legends
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Donald H. Harrison, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The morning after the beginning of Israeli-Palestinian “proximity talks” found Israel’s media reporting accusations of deception, and denials, coming from important players in Israel, Palestine, and the United States. Did Prime Minister Netanyahu promise not to build in Ramat Shlomo for two years, as indicated by American and Palestinian sources, or did
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—When a U.S. Marine Corps detachment from the USS Cyane marched from the shore of San Diego Bay to the plaza in Old Town San Diego on July 29, 1846 and raised the American flag without serious challenge, thus ending Mexican control over this city, someone must have thought, ‘Wait
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Donald H. Harrison, USA