Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has said Israel should continue building in Judea and Samaria, insisting the Jewish state should “keep moving forward” in response to Arab terrorism. Speaking to the UK’s Daily Mail, Trump emphasized his support for the State of Israel, and appeared to veer away from previous comments in which he declared […]
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Middle East, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – After meeting with some of the students who blocked the campus police car in which he was a passenger for approximately two hours last week, SDSU President Elliot Hirshman, who is Jewish, and others issued a statement on Monday abhorring Islamophobia but not mentioning anti-Semitism. As reported in Tuesday’s
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SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — The Men’s Club and Sisterhood of Tifereth Israel Synagogue plan to celebrate Israel’s 68th birthday with an ol’ fashioned American style barbecue at 6 p.m., Thursday, May 12. Yup, kosher hamburger and hot dogs, plus vegetarian selections. Decorations and recreation, meanwhile, will be Israeli through and through. Israeli dancing will be
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Middle East, San Diego Calendar, USAEvery election brings new questions about the qualities and character of national leadership, in the United States and abroad. In the 2008 presidential election, the big question was whether America could elect a non-white man — in this case, an African-American — as president. Up until then, all U.S. presidents had been white Christian males
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International, USARepublican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump on Sunday said he would love to broker a peace settlement between the Israelis and the Palestinians, The Jewish Insider reported. Trump”s comments came during a campaign rally in Terre Haute, Indiana, where primaries will be held on Tuesday. Trump said that seeing Israel and the Palestinians sign on a
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BOSTON — When teacher Mary Beth Donovan prepared her students to read Anne Frank’s diary 10 years ago, she screened a selection of the famous newsreel clips shot during the liberation of Nazi camps in 1945. Astoundingly, after watching the films, some of Donovan’s students began referring to the genocide and Anne Frank as “fake”
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USAStudents injected Holocaust imagery into drinking contest A student pours beer into a cup before a game of “Holocaust Pong.” Photo courtesy Jamaica Ponder The Jewish Federation of Princeton Mercer Bucks and the Board of Rabbis of Princeton Mercer Bucks issued a joint statement condemning an underage drinking game of beer pong that took an
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USAMIAMI — A Hollywood, Fla., man accused of trying to blow up an Aventura synagogue stood in Miami federal court on Monday and gave the judge two names — one real, the other an alias. “My name is James Medina, also known as ‘James Muhammad,’” Medina told Magistrate Judge William Turnoff. James G. Medina,
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– In response to numerous anti-LGBT laws being introduced, and in many cases passed, at the state-level, the leadership of the Union for Reform Judaism, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and the North American Federation of Temple Youth issued the following statement: “As leaders
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Story by Donald H. Harrison; photos by Shor Masori SAN DIEGO – Israel’s consul general for New York, Ido Aharoni, told a San Diego gathering of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) on Sunday, May 1, that arguing with the supporters of BDS is a sterile exercise, not likely to influence the 95 percent of the
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Middle East, San Diego County, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Campaigning does not bring out the best. There is much said and written by candidates, their supporters, opponents, and commentators. Who knows what is important, crucial, and trivial, when all fabricate, dissemble, obfuscate, temporize, and lie, and much of what the victors actually do will depend on details that develop
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“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” This iconic Cool Hand Luke quote seems to be the rallying cry of the Republican National Committee as it attempts to whip the disparate caucuses of the Republican party into accepting the inevitability of Donald Trump’s nomination as the party’s presidential candidate. Some of the most powerful
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“They said I’d make a good lampshade,” says Julia Ioffe. Ioffe is a journalist, who happens to be Jewish, and who happened to write a profile of Donald Trump’s wide, Melania, for GQ. She has since been barraged with insults and threats, many of them violent, and many of them anti-Semitic. “Basically,” says Ioffe, “I
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International, USAHome to the country’s biggest economy and largest population, California in most years is more or less irrelevant in one arena: presidential elections. But not this year—in 2016, normally apathetic Californians are waking up to the fact that despite the state’s late primary in early June, they actually matter in this presidential contest, which is
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