By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA–Neither the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. nor Mahatma Gandhi whined when they were jailed. They knew they violated the local burg’s usually unjust laws; endured their punishment like adults; and never blamed the Jews. Not so the 11 overgrown delinquents who disrupted Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren’s speech […]
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–Following is a speech delivered to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee meeting in Washington D.C. by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday: Thank you. Thank you for that welcome. And it is wonderful to be back at AIPAC with so many good friends. I saw a number of them backstage
Hillary Clinton supports and criticizes Israel Read More »
Middle East, USABy Vic Alhadeff SYDNEY, March 15 — It is easy to be sidetracked by the pace of politics in the Middle East and to lose sight of the big picture. The announcement that 1600 apartments will be built in East Jerusalem is a case in point. It was quickly followed by Israel’s Defence Minister threatening
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Middle East, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Okoronkwo Umeham, 73, has led a distinguished life in his native Nigeria; in the United Kingdom where he worked as a social worker; and finally in the United States, his country of citizenship, where he counsels troubled juveniles. Residents from the Eastern Nigerian village of Arochukwu,
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Donald H. Harrison, International, USABy Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM–For the past several years I’ve been putting out a light-hearted ’18 Ways You Know Pesach is Coming In Israel’ piece to describe the frenetic days leading up to Pesach in the holy city. This year, there are a few additional notable events that are driving the news cycles over here.
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastHAIFA (Press Release)–Another small earthquake was felt in the north of Israel this weekend, prompting an Israeli official to note that his country “experiences a large earthquake every 80 years on average; the last occurred in 1927. We are now in the area of statistical error.” Dr. Avi Shapira, Director of the Israeli Ministry of
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C.– Fairly authoritative sources have noted that Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton, the U.S. Army general responsible for training Abu Mazen’s Palestinian security force/army, has become increasingly marginalized by the Fatah government. Last summer his staff was reportedly no longer directly involved in training or planning and had been “expelled” from the
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Isaac Yetiv Dear Madam: Your intempestive intervention in the Jerusalem incident , and your outrageous 43 minutes phone call upbraiding the Prime Minister of a sovereign nation that is the only democracy in the Middle-East and our only reliable military ally, Israel, are not only shameful and undiplomatic, but have deleterious effects on
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Middle East, USA
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–It is not possible to find a more left-wing, large circulation media outlet in Israel than Ha’aretz. It is as close as anything Israeli comes to the New York Times: not in the quality or extent of its coverage, but in having as its readers the intellectual, political, and economic elites of
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The Japanese community of San Diego held a cherry blossom festival last weekend at the Japanese Friendship Garden in Balboa Park. It was an event for all the senses. The colorful costumes of the children and the koi in the pond pleased the eye. Japanese music gratified
Japanese-style books make reading to children even more fun Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, San Diego Calendar, USA
By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California –What the heck is the Hurva, and what is its current role in Israel-Palestinian and Israel-US tensions? The Hurva (“ruin” or “wreck” in Hebrew) has become a target for the Palestinian campaign to denigrate Israel’s Jewish heritage, and the Obama administration is cooperating. Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu is trying to
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Middle East
By Lloyd Levy LONDON–They say that “turkeys don’t vote for Thanksgiving”- how wrong they are. It was hard to believe at the time of the Election, that the vast majority of Jews in USA voted for Barack Obama as President. Well (to mix a metaphor) the birds have come home to roost, and their support
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Lloyd Levy, Middle East, USA
Sixth in a Series By Donald H. Harrison ABOARD MS ROTTERDAM—From the earliest days of the conquest of Latin America to the years of liberation, our cruise ship sped us through some of the most dramatic moments in Spanish colonial history. For us, a recent voyage aboard MS Rotterdam began in Callao, the port serving
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego Calendar, USA
Lifeboat maneuvers to floating object in Pacific during recovery operation. Photos: Donald H. Harrison ___________________________________________________ By Donald H. Harrison -Second in a series– ABOARD MS ROTTERDAM –Recovering the body of a man who threw himself overboard and avoiding a possible tsunami in the wake of a large Chilean earthquake were unscheduled and unforgettable events during
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Donald H. Harrison, USA