USA

Does Israel’s security ‘matter’ to Obama?

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Samantha Power, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, says the U.S. will no longer automatically exercise its veto in the UN Security Council to protect Israel. In testimony before the Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, Power specifically declined to rule out support for resolutions on Palestinian […]

Does Israel’s security ‘matter’ to Obama? Read More »

Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA

Jewish news briefs, April 22, 2015

At 67th birthday, Israel’s population stands at 8.345 million (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics published new figures ahead of Yom Ha’atzmaut (Independence Day) showing that the country’s population stands at 8,345,000, about 10.4 times greater than the population of 806,000 when the Jewish state was founded in 1948. Jewish residents number

Jewish news briefs, April 22, 2015 Read More »

Middle East, USA

Arming countries, then pulling out, recipe for disaster

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Forty years ago, Saigon fell to communist North Vietnam. Images of terrified South Vietnamese clambering to the roof of the U.S. embassy, and Vietnamese helicopter pilots ferrying them to ships and then pushing the helicopters overboard to make room for more refugees are still heart-wrenching. Vietnam represented a change in

Arming countries, then pulling out, recipe for disaster Read More »

International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA

Jewish news briefs: April 20, 2015

Pope Francis meets with leading European rabbis at Vatican (JNS.org) Pope Francis met with a delegation of leading European rabbis at the Vatican on Monday to discuss Jewish-Christian relations and the ongoing surge of European anti-Semitism. The delegation was from the Conference of European Rabbis, which represents more than 700 rabbis from synagogues across Europe.

Jewish news briefs: April 20, 2015 Read More »

International, Middle East, USA

Jewish news briefs: April 17, 2015

Obama condemns anti-Semitism on Holocaust Remembrance Day (JNS.org) U.S. President Barack Obama condemned anti-Semitism in a message on Thursday to mark Israel’s Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) as well as the international commemorations of the end of the Holocaust and the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. “It is incumbent upon us to make real

Jewish news briefs: April 17, 2015 Read More »

International, Middle East, USA

‘Lincoln and the Jews,’ scholarly and displayable

Lincoln and the Jews: A History by Jonathan D. Sarna and Benjamin Shapell, St. Martin Press, New York; ISBN 978-1-250-05935-6 ©2015, $40.00, p. 227, plus appendices and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — Abraham Lincoln died on Saturday, April 15, 1865. Most Northerners and many Southerners, particularly those who understood the ramifications of having a new,

‘Lincoln and the Jews,’ scholarly and displayable Read More »

Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish History, USA

Humoring the headlines: Campaign Nursery Rhymes

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO–Following are some nursery rhymes for Campaign 2016 Hillary, Billary, Doc  This time there’s no Barack. You’ll take the heat But not defeat. Unless Warren joins the flock. * Sing a song of Ted Cruz His campaign has begun. One of many schnorrers From Sheldon Adelson. Bibi’s right, Barack’s wrong. Protect

Humoring the headlines: Campaign Nursery Rhymes Read More »

Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA