By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — What’s normal politics? Arguments about more benefits? Favoring the middle or lower classes? Something for the religious? My party or yours? Foreign policy? National defense? Here and now we hear about all of that, but they’re minor words. Bibi Netanyahu is what matters. To advance him, or dump him. While […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — One of the Democratic candidates running for President is Cory Booker, the former Newark mayor who later was elected to the U.S. Senate. Booker has had a long relationship with the Jewish community. He once headed Jewish student societies while a student at the University at
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — Democrats are in denial when they claim that Israel’s perception within the party is solid. Its image has ebbed among Democrats and other Americans, primarily on the liberal side, and it is difficult to determine how much. Israel’s image can be revitalized, though the conditions for it will
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Middle East, USABy Steve Kramer KFAR SAVA, Israel — I recently attended the first day of a two day ‘Law & War’ conference in Jerusalem held by Shurat HaDin, a terrific organization that fights Israel’s battles by legal means, using court systems around the world to go on the offensive against Israel’s enemies. Its motto: “Bankrupting Terrorism
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International, Middle East, Steve Kramer, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — It pains me to write this, but there seems to be a straight line between the rejection of the UN Partition Plan by the Arab countries in 1947 and the Palestinian Authority’s current refusal to attend the Bahrain workshop arranged by the USA in an attempt to move
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The Jewish Studies Program at San Diego State University recently announced a new slate of visiting Israeli professors who will teach at SDSU during the upcoming academic year. They include Eran Feitelson, Moshe Zonder, Shuki Ben Naim, Luba Levin-Banchik, and Gilad Shteinberg. Dr. Eran Feitelson Over the decades, Israel has
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Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Netanyahu’s reported attempt to cancel the general election he called for next September is viewed as evidence that he knows that he’s likely to lose this time. His allegedly faithful ally Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein is helping him and thereby, it seems, tarnishing his own reputation. The
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — For more than a week, we’ve been hearing about a Palestinian who raped a seven year Israeli. But the stories differ, and rely largely on the reports of the seven year old. First off, she’s a member of an ultra-Orthodox family. Either because of their own contemplations, or the girl’s
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Neither Benny Gantz nor Yair Lapid – the leaders of the Blue and White party in Israel who have agreed to take turns as prime minister should they come to power – are likely to be more competent politicians than Binyamin Netanyahu. And no successor, whoever s/he may be,
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Middle EastBy Steve Kramer KFAR SAVA, Israel — The Jerusalem Post has reported that ten progressive Jewish groups sent a letter calling on the US House of Representatives leadership to vote on House Resolution 326, which supports the two-state solution. The resolution, which was introduced in April, is cosponsored by 132 House Democrats. The resolution
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Middle East, Steve KramerBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — As a first step in the new initiative to facilitate the divorce between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the U.S. Administration and Bahrain announced that they would host an economic workshop entitled “Peace to Prosperity” in the Bahraini capital of Manama on June 25 and 26, 2019. This is
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Jewish History, Middle EastBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D. C –For Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, the world must start fresh every day. That would explain her ignorance on Iran. “None of this [tension] would be happening if Trump didn’t back out of the Iran nuclear deal,” Omar said on Twitter. “America’s response should be to return to the table
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By Robbie Strazynski CardPlayerLifeStyle.com LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Last year, while walking through the hallowed hallways at the Rio during the World Series of Poker, I noticed a vendor with an interesting product I had never seen before, a Digital Poker Table. The vendor, Ariel Shefer, told me all about his product and how
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