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By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO –Is our legacy gift to the naval and other survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack the indiscriminate disposal of the partial remains of US servicepersons who were killed in Afghanistan or Iraq into toxic waste dumps?  The assault on Pearl occurred exactly seventy years ago this past week, on

By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California — Does David Klein, a math professor at California State University, have the bright to use the university’s web server, the  url (http://www.csun.edu/~vcmth00m/boycott.html )  being  the university’s, to post a hate page against Israel and Jews? The webpage says, “Israel is the most racist state in the world  at this  time,”

By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California –The old “gentlemen’s agreement” worked sub rosa to discriminate against Jews and preserve the homogeneity of neighborhoods or work places. General indifference permitted this. The new “gentlemen’s agreement” works similarly on many campuses to preserve the homogeneity of leftist and pro-Palestinian thought, again permitted by indifferent administrators. As many of

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO–What must God think of all the arguing about religion? Thanksgiving is a day when heaven may get some relief from this concern, when Americans of all faiths sit at one spiritual table with many of the same trimmings and family customs. Thanksgiving liberates us from specific theological claims and

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — Forty-eight years ago today, Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy, 46, was slain while riding in a motorcade in Dealey Plaza, Dallas.  The world stopped; the kinetic, violent, transformational 1960s truly sprung, at 12:30 PM CST, when the shots were fired from the Texas School Book Depository

  By Bruce Kesler   ENCINITAS, California — University of California President Mark Yudof on Sunday issued a press release that “ I am appalled by images of University of California students being doused with pepper spray and jabbed with police batons on our campuses.” President Yudof went on:  “I intend to convene all 10

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — This weekend, while most Americans are continuing to shake their heads over the terminally drooping economy, the decidedly uninspiring race for the Republican presidential nomination, and the hard-to-discern frenzy about the Eurozone, something is happening in Memphis, Tennessee, that is worthy of our attention. The National Civil Rights

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO–When the local director for a homeless rescue agency called on me to participate in yesterday’s interfaith vigil, I was glad to accept. Then I felt embarrassment while learning in the communications that sixty-one homeless persons had died on the streets of San Diego since the last annual vigil and