By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –Israel is a normal country, but is strained to preserve that status against the rest of the world that is even less normal. That is not a sentence one would expect from a confirmed social scientist. It does not make sense according to the elemental rules of logic, but it does […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –President Obama dragged out some really dated stereotypes while demeaning both Jews and Israelis in an interview with Israel’s Channel 2 Television. Confronted with the “anxiety” (as the reporter put it) that some Israelis feel about his relationship toward Israel, Mr. Obama bluntly blamed the Jews: “This is the
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–As expected, the White House meeting between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu was an occasion for mutual admiration and pledges of cooperation. It was much different from the image conveyed by their previous meeting, when the White House had blasted the timing of an Israeli planning committee’s announcement about
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Another outlandish legal opinion should prod us to wonder how four U.S. Supreme Court justices got accepted to law school. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. writes in a dissenting opinion: “I do not think it is an exaggeration to say that today’s decision is a serious setback for freedom
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Middle East, USABy Dr. Michael Goldblatt Chairman, Zionist Organization of America PHILADELPHIA–It is clear that Israel faces some serious dangers and lurking threats, most obviously the threat of nuclear-armed Iran whose regime speaks frequently of a world without Israel and America. Three Iranian presidents have spoken publicly of seeing Israel eliminated by nuclear strikes, despite the costs
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Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — There is a crucial divide between PR and straight talk, between red lines, bottom lines and spin. Last week we cautioned against mistaking Israel’s bad PR for bad policy, and faulted people who respond to Israel based on how things look in the media rather than for what they
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USACompiled by the San Diego Jewish World staffSouthwestern Jewish Press, August 20, 1954, page 5 By Adolph Brodman News of the Fox Regular meeting of the Samuel I. Fox Lodge was held on Aug.10. Brother Morrie Kraus made his official visit and was greeted by one of the largest turnouts that the lodge had had
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Middle East, USACompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Personals Southwestern Jewish Press, August 20, 1954, page 3 Guest Time – Summer time becomes smug-time for San Diegans. For no matter what part of the country our guests come, we need never apologize for that “unusual weather.” Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Cohen, had as their guest her
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By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release)–As Prime Minister Netanyahu arrives for his 5th set of meetings with President Obama, the headline in one newspaper is, “Obama mum on Bush’s borders for Israel,” noting, “The White House has declined to publicly affirm commitments made by President Bush to Israel in 2004 on the final borders
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USACompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Community Census Gets Under Way This Week Southwestern Jewish Press, August 20, 1954, page 1 Over 400 San Diego Jewish families were being interviewed this week by 40 trained census enumerators in the first Jewish population census ever attempted in our community. Participating in the census are Marshall
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Adventures in SD History, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — One recalls July 4, 1976—the great Bicentennial—with much nostalgia and affection. America was exactly 200 years old, had survived the Watergate scandals and a presidential resignation without bloodshed or constitutional tremors. The dreadful Vietnam War was over after some fifteen years of entanglement, though we struggled (and
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By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California–Most Americans, and many abroad, can’t help but choke up as they see our flag floating by in a patriotic parade. But, the 4th of July isn’t Flag Day, June 14. How many hung out their flag then? Most Americans, and many abroad, are thankful for the men and women of
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USACompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Southwestern Jewish Press, August 6, 1954, Page 5 Terror in Rumania (Editorial) Recent revelations regarding the reign of terror conducted by the Communist Government against Zionists there have shocked many in the free world. Communists in Israel, faced by the news that 200 Zionist leaders in Rumania have
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Adventures in SD History, Middle East, USAKRAKOW, Poland (Press Release)–In a speech July 3, at the Schindler Factory Museum here, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced the U.S. intention to contribute $15 million over five years to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, subject to Congressional authorization and appropriations. The World War II-era factory of Oskar Schindler, the German entrepreneur who saved hundreds
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