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Clinton calls on Israel, Palestinians to negotiate a peace

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke extensively on Thursday, April 15, on prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace during the dedication of the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace  in the American capital city.  Here is a transcript of her comments following her introduction: SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, I should just quit […]

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Middle East

46 percent of American Jews say they may vote against Obama next election

  NEW YORK (Press Release)–A new poll of American Jewish opinion, conducted by McLaughlin & Associates, has produced a surprising result: despite the fact that American Jews voted for Barack Obama in 2008 by a massive 78% to 21%, today a plurality of 46% of American Jews say they would consider voting for someone else

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Middle East

San Diego Jewish community to memorialize those who fell defending Israel

 LA JOLLA, California (Press Release)–Yom HaZikaron, the day Israel remembers its war dead and victims of terror, will be observed at 7 p.m., Sunday, April 18, at the Lawrence Family JCC, 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla. The free public event is sponsored by the Israel Center of United Jewish Federation of San Diego County. During

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Middle East

Fixing American priorities in the Middle East

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs calls on President Obama to take a personal interest in the “Middle East dispute” and use his personal good offices to push the parties to the conflict to a resolution that serves “vital national security interests” for the United States. Recalcitrant parties, pursuing their own

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Shoshana Bryen, USA

J Street reports first official meeting with Israel's ambassador

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — J Street founder and Executive Director Jeremy Ben-Ami met today for the first time with Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren. The conversation, which took place at the Israeli Embassy, lasted approximately one hour and covered a wide range of topics, including the peace process, the US-Israel relationship and Iran.  The meeting

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Middle East, USA

Two Auschwitz Survivors have emotional meeting at Haifa ceremony

HAIFA (Press Release)–An emotional first-time meeting took place at the University of Haifa between two survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp: Miriam Yahav, 83, and Nahum Bendel, 82. The two became connected five years ago, in 2005, when  Yahav spontaneously stepped up to the stage at a ceremony in Poland commemorating 60 years of the liberation

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Middle East

Sharansky, Lau, Peer lead March of the Living

AUSCHWITZ, Poland (Press Release)–Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky, flanked by Israel’s former Chief Rabbi and government ministers, led a group of over 10,000 on the annual March of the Living at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and death camp in Poland, marking Holocaust Remembrance Day, Monday (April 12). “It is easy to say that the lessons of Auschwitz

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Middle East

A short overview of Holocaust commemorations

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The Holocaust leads all other tragedies in the extent of its commemoration. Numerous countries have an annual observance on January 27th, the anniversary of the day in 1945 when the Soviet Army liberated the largest Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. Some of them also commemorate Israel’s observance in the Spring. It comes

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

San Diego’s historic places: Mission San Diego tells circumspect tale of Kumeyaay life

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Janet Bartel, chief docent at San Diego Mission, treads as carefully as a performer on a tightrope when discussing the Kumeyaay Indian experience at Mission San Diego, There have been too many controversies not to. In September 1988, Pope John Paul II beatified Father Junipero Serra saying that

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Donald H. Harrison, USA

Holyland scandal continues to dominate Israeli headlines

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Israel returned from its Passover vacation, and unburdened itself of several files awaiting release from one official body or another. The scandal of the Holyland apartment development gained more weight with the detainment of another real estate mogul, said to have bribed local planning officials with respect to that project, and officials

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

'Holyland' Hotel scandal rivets Israeli attention

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Normally  commentators would be worrying for days about the report in The Washington Post that a coterie of present and former National Security Advisors are pressing President Obama to proclaim their solution for Israel and Palestine. However, that story was below the fold on the front page of Ha’aretz, and is missing from

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East