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By Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Recently, a good number of American Jews, self-declared pro-Israel Zionists, wrote Israel P.M. Netanyahu a finger-wagging letter, asking him “to make painful concessions and sacrifices” to the Palestinians to achieve peace. This was not a discreet expression of opinion, permitted to anyone, but a public admonition full

By Joshua Sinai      The Internet is a crucial tool that terrorist groups and their extremist supporters use to distribute their propaganda and attack planning beyond the “physical” space where they operate clandestinely into the worldwide “cyber” space, where it is easier to reach vast audiences that have Internet connectivity. Terrorist presence and appeal on the

NEW YORK (Press Release)–More than one million people around the world have viewed the Anti-Defamation League’s inspirational video, “Imagine A World Without Hate” as the public service campaign has gone viral on the Internet bolstered by word of mouth and “shares” by a number of luminaries and celebrities, from Ricky Martin to Lena Dunham and

By Bob Jacob/Cleveland Jewish News/JNS.org Kevin Goodman’s second Boston Marathon will be one he will never forget. That’s because just about 60 minutes after he concluded the race, two explosions rocked the finish line. “It’s a gruesome day,” Goodman, who lives in Cleveland, told the Cleveland Jewish News from the Fairmont Copley Hotel, where he

By Marsha Sutton SAN DIEGO — Hearing the words, “Hate feels so good,” is shocking in itself. But hearing those words uttered by a former neo-nazi skinhead turned equality and human rights advocate is a stunner. To understand how a white supremacist is created, and how a racist bigot can find his humanity, check out

(Editor’s Note:  The following article by the leadership of the Zionist Organization of America questions the motives of J-Street.   San Diego Jewish World will make its pages available to J Street, should it desire, for a reply) By Morton A. Klein and Daniel Mandel NEW YORK — J Street describes itself as Zionist, pro-Israel, pro-peace and

By Peter Huessy        The United States is engaging in a major debate over the appropriate size of the Defense Department. At its heart are two issues. First, should we continue to reduce our military spending by roughly $947 billion over the next decade, as was agreed to in the Budget Control Act of 2011? Second,

By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENICNINTAS, California — On April 3, 1968, 45 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached the fear of death out of himself. Most people recall the oration as “The Mountaintop” speech; it came less than 24 hours before King’s assassination outside Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. It rained

  By Joel A Moskowitz MD LA JOLLA, California –With Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif), who is a member of the Jewish community, leading the congressional charge against assault weapons, is there a preponderance of support within the Jewish community for such controls? Feinstein introduced the Federal Assault Weapons Ban which became law in 1994, but

By David P. Goldman       The Obama administration has utterly failed to convince the world that it is serious when it says the U.S. would attack Iran if it does not halt its nuclear weapons program. Analysis of energy markets reveals that crude oil is trading today with no greater risk than stocks and currency. Even

By Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — In my previous writings, I repeatedly denounced the mainstream media “dereliction of duty,” their blind unconditional support for the president and his party, their selective reporting of the news, their self-imposed silence and even coverups of  Obama’s deficiencies, failures, and scandals. This silence, much akin to the “omerta” en

(JNS.org) A bipartisan letter signed by more than three-fourths of the U.S. Senate urged President Barack Obama to stand by Israel ahead of his trip to the Middle East. The letter, signed by 78 U.S. senators including U.S. Sen Barbara Boxer (D-Calif) and supported by the America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), asks Obama to “reaffirm