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Safety a priority as San Diego’s new school year nears

August 18, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – With more than 100,000 students preparing to return to city schools on August 26, their safety is uppermost in the minds of those in charge of their education, San Diego City School Superintendent Cindy Marten told a small but animated gathering Sunday night at Tifereth Israel Synagogue. “We […]

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Tlaib, Omar should have been shown the real Israel

August 18, 2019

By Peter C. Herman Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — In the introduction to his 1983 novel about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which really means, the Israeli response to Palestinian terrorism, John le Carré talks about how he went about researching The Little Drummer Girl. He tried to speak with the PLO representative in London,

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Middle East, USA

EU finances illegal Arab housing in Area C

August 18, 2019

-Second in a series. To read Part I, click here– (c) By Edwin Black WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the 1990s, after years of diplomatic wrangling, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization signed the Oslo Accords, envisioning a peaceful two-state solution. Under the complex Oslo Accords, the “West Bank” is divided into three separate administrative zones, Areas

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Edwin Black, International, Middle East

Tlaib’s ‘grandma’ claim hypocritical

August 17, 2019

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — It’s curious that U.S. Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib would travel to a country – namely, Israel – that they suggest replicates Nazi Germany. Of course, Israel is no Nazi Germany. No concentration camps, no gas chambers, no fuhrers, no German-style ghettoes, no storm troopers, no boxcars

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Middle East, USA

San Diego County celebrates Israel’s day of love

August 16, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison ENCINITAS, California – Up and down San Diego County, Jewish congregations and organizations are beginning to embrace the celebration of Tu b’Av, a relatively unknown holiday in the United States, but considered to be the equivalent of Valentines Day in Israel. This secular year, it arrived on the evening of August

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Glad that Omar and Tlaib aren’t coming

August 16, 2019

By Steve Kramer KFAR SAVA, Israel — Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, all “women of color” known as “the squad,” are the darlings of the mainstream media. Omar (a refugee from Somalia) and Ocasio-Cortez are constantly in the news making bigoted,

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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USA

Jewish groups split on barring Tlaib, Omar from Israel

August 15, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Jewish organizations are divided three ways over the decision of the Israeli government to deny entry to two anti-Israel members of Congress — Reps. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. Those on the right lined up behind the Israeli government; those on the left condemned

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USA

Illegal Arab settlement changing face of ‘Area C’

August 15, 2019

-First in a series- (c) By Edwin Black WASHINGTON, D.C. — “Area C,” which comprises some 60 percent of the West Bank, also known as Judea and Samaria, is making news these days. This time, the hot button issue is illegal Palestinian settlements sprouting across the region, shredding the last vestige of the Oslo Accords, which,

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Edwin Black, International, Middle East

Reasons for skepticism in Israeli election

August 15, 2019

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — In this last month before the elections in Israel I find it very difficult to believe anything the political parties are telling us about themselves. (This includes Benny Gantz, the leader of Blue and White, who often says one thing and its opposite almost in the same breath). I

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Judaism, Middle East

Fresno native blogs incisively from Israel

August 14, 2019

By H. Applebaum SAN DIEGO — Anyone interested in Israel and the Jewish community in America, and who realizes the major news outlets often get it wrong, should take a look at Victor Rosenthal’s blog from Israel called “Abu Yehuda.” Victor started out in Fresno, where he was active in the Jewish community, and where he

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Middle East, USA

Pro- BDS ethnic studies curriculum scrapped

August 14, 2019

SANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release)– The following is a statement from AMCHA Initiative Director Tammi Rossman-Benjamin on the California Board of Education’s decision to rewrite the proposed Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum: “We are pleased the State Board of Education has recognized the severe problems with this curriculum and agreed to go back to the drawing

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Critique of Hamas lands PFLP member in jail

August 13, 2019

By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — Abu Safiyeh, is a representative of the PLO’s Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in the Gaza Strip. He was arrested after he published a Facebook post criticizing Hamas’s corruption. Here are some of the things he wrote that got him thrown into Palestinian prison by Hamas:

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Barry Shaw, Middle East

May God save Zionism from rightists and leftists

August 12, 2019

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — I’ve often contended that had there not been a State of Israel, Judaism would by now been confined to museums. Enclaves of Orthodox Jews would perhaps continue to practice their ways in the manner of the Amish in the United States. The majority would assimilate. I’ve now come to

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Middle East

Murder of left- reading yeshiva student roils Israel

August 12, 2019

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — A young man, Dvir Sorek, religious, a bit short of going from his Yeshiva to the army, was killed as he walked the path from the bus stop to his settlement. It demonstrated, once again, that roadside killings in the West Bank are the most popular targets for Palestinian terrorists.

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Safety a priority as San Diego’s new school year nears

Tlaib, Omar should have been shown the real Israel

EU finances illegal Arab housing in Area C

Tlaib’s ‘grandma’ claim hypocritical

San Diego County celebrates Israel’s day of love

Glad that Omar and Tlaib aren’t coming

Jewish groups split on barring Tlaib, Omar from Israel

Illegal Arab settlement changing face of ‘Area C’

Reasons for skepticism in Israeli election

Fresno native blogs incisively from Israel

Pro- BDS ethnic studies curriculum scrapped

Critique of Hamas lands PFLP member in jail

May God save Zionism from rightists and leftists

Murder of left- reading yeshiva student roils Israel

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