By Rabbi Ben Kamin NEW YORK –My eyes watered and my throat tightened as I disembarked at Newark Liberty Airport and gazed upon the renewed New York skyline and the curative, colossal sight of the One World Trade Center tower. It was certainly a joyous journey: a daughter marrying in my native Israel, a connection […]
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Turning on the radio and opening my browser early in the morning of January 1 in Jerusalem, the news from the world capital, where it was still yesterday, was that the White House and Congress were close, but not yet there with legislation that would keep the American economy–and most
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Ira Sharkansky, USABy JNS.org After President Barack Obama nominated U.S. Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) for Secretary of State, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement that Kerry “has considerable experience and is a known supporter of the security of the State of Israel.” At the same time, Kerry has been a frequent critic of
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USANEW YORK (Press Release) — A new national survey has shown that the American public supports Israel over the Palestinians by a five-to-one ratio. According to the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press national survey, conducted during December 5-9, 2012, Americans sympathize more with Israel (50%) than with the Palestinians (10%). Support for
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — I’ve tried to convince my American friends how out of step they are on firearms. Being number one in gun ownership and number one in murder does not seem to impress them. Perhaps it stimulates their pride in being different. Everyone else must be off kilter, insofar as individual freedom
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Ira Sharkansky, USABy Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — One of the nice things about living in Japan and Taiwan over the past 20 years is that there is no gun culture, no gun violence, no guns blazing. So whenever I read about the increasing gun violence in America, I cringe. I recently read a news story
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–According to the über-encyclopedia that teaches all of us everything, “defense mechanisms are psychological strategies brought into play by the unconscious mind to manipulate, deny, or distort reality (through processes including, but not limited to, Repression, Identification, or Rationalization), and to maintain a socially acceptable self-image or self-schema.” Defense mechanisms abound
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Ira Sharkansky, USABy James Colbert WASHINGTON, D.C. — Even during difficult economic times, most Americans still want our nation to maintain a credible national defense, support the welfare of its troops, and assume a leadership role for America in an increasingly chaotic world including by continuing close cooperation with democratic allies. That is why the President’s
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USAGod created the first human being alone in order to teach us that whosoever kills a single soul is considered as though he has destroyed an entire world. By the same token, anyone who preserves a single human soul, it is as if that person sustained a whole world— BT Sanhedrin 37b; JT Sanhedrin 4:12, 22b By
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –Can Americans cure themselves of gun addiction? It’s a daunting assignment, and raises a question about coping. Gun addiction may be insoluble, and there may be no way for individuals to cope with the malady that infects so many of their fellow Americans as to make no place suitable as a refuge.
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USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California– When the devastated father of Emilie Parker, Robbie Parker, took to the cameras and microphones on Saturday to talk about his murdered 6 year-old child in Newtown, Connecticut, we were able to gain more than a media coup. Even the most cynical (and there are some), who may have
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USABy Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO —The shootings in Connecticut hit me hard. Just the thought of a gunman coming into a school and shooting children was too much for me. I thought of the times when my daughter was younger and attended San Diego Jewish Academy that she would tell me of a Code Red,
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USABy Eylon Shamir LA JOLLA, California — As an Israeli who has resided in the United States for the last 18 years, I have been frustrated by the language dominating U.S. electoral politics. Predominant are the hawkish voices that avoid any criticism of the Israeli government policy and purport to represent my country’s interests while
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release)–Dual US-Israeli citizens filed a lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and the State Department claiming that the US administration provided the Palestinian Authority with billions of dollars in aid money which were used to fund terrorist groups such as Hamas instead of supporting humanitarian causes, Yedioth Ahronoth reported. According to the lawsuit, the
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