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Farhud Day marks the murderous Nazi – Arab alliance

By Edwin Black WASHINGTON, D.C. — When International Farhud Day was proclaimed at a conference convened at the United Nations headquarters on June 1, 2015, its proponents wanted to achieve more than merely to establish a commemoration of the ghastly 1941 Arab-Nazi pogrom in Baghdad that killed and injured hundreds of Iraqi Jews. Jews had thrived […]

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Edwin Black, International, Jewish History, Middle East

De Toqueville foresaw FB’s danger to democracy

By Sam Ben-Meir NEW YORK — There is a fascinating chapter toward the end of Alexis de Toqueville’s Democracy in America titled “What Kind of Despotism Do Democratic Nations Have to Fear?” in which the author attempted something truly extraordinary – to describe a social condition which humankind had never before encountered. We find him

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Will Likud finalize Netanyahu bid for P.M. again?

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We’re now in a hot spot, a few days before the parties must finalize their existence and candidates prior to the April election. And who knows how long before the announcement about Bibi’s indictment? Each newscast provides us with commentary, and often another survey. Intellectually, it’s a mess. But we

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Jews in the News ~ February 17, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson told Roger Stone, his defense attorneys, and prosecutors not to make any statements that might prejudice a jury in the case in which he is accused of lying to Congress in its probe of possible Russian connections to President Trump’s successful

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Jews in the News: February 16, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL — House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler of New York, joined by five of his subcommittee chairs, including Reps Steve Cohen and David Cicilline, respectively of Tennessee and Rhode Island, informed President Trump on Friday of the commencement of an immediate investigation into his declaration of a national emergency and

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Responding to anti- Israel propaganda

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — U.S. Rep Ilhan Omar’s two-part twitter outburst alleging that Jewish money finances congressional support for Israel probably reflects the thinking of many racial minorities and, for that matter, numerous whites. Israel, they believe, is the Goliath in the Middle East that is seizing Palestinian land, massacring unarmed demonstrators, and

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Jews in the News ~ February 15, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL — In order to build a border wall, President Trump decided on Friday to declare a national emergency, prompting a constitutional crisis over whether he legally can reprogram money  previously allocated by Congress for other purposes.  U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, told The New

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Jews in the News: February 14, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the sidelines of the international conference on Iran currently being held in Warsaw.  Netanyahu thanked  Pompeo and Vice President Mike Pence for pulling together the conference in which “an Israeli prime minister and the

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, USA, Yeruchem Eilfort-Rabbi

Weinberger v. Taft in Arizona statehood battle

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – One hundred seven years ago today, on February 14, 1912, President William Howard Taft signed a proclamation making Arizona the 48th State of the Union.  The Republican president may have thought that his signature culminated a long fight with Progressive Democrats in Arizona over the question of the

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, USA

Jews in the News: February 13, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – Democratic U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon has asked Google and Apple to remove from sale an app developed in Saudi Arabia to permit Saudi husbands to track, monitor and thereby control the movement of women in their families.   According to The Washington Post, Wyden denounced Saudi Arabia’s

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