By H. Applebaum SAN DIEGO –Be’er Sheva Chief Rabbi Yehuda Deri performed a wedding in a bomb shelter two days ago as rockets were fired from Gaza throughout Southern Israel. Ironically, the bride was born during the Gulf War while Iraq was firing Scud missiles on Israel. Seven hundred rockets and missiles have been fired […]
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Middle EastBy Ronit Weiss Berkowitz Translated from Hebrew SAN DIEGO — I am still emotionally overwhelmed by the powerful experience I had recently in class. I apologize for writing in Hebrew, it comes to me faster and I do not want those moments to slip away. I planned to talk to the students briefly about the
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The United States State Department issued this statement on Saturday, May 4: “The United States strongly condemns the ongoing barrage of rocket attacks by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad from Gaza upon innocent civilians and their communities across Israel. “We call on those responsible for the violence to cease this
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By David Rubin SHILOH, Israel –Another Holocaust Day has passed but have we learned anything? Just days before the May 1-2 Remembrance Day, we witnessed the lethal shooting in Chabad of Poway in San Diego County, a second shooting in a synagogue in six months. Clearly, there is a rise in anti-Semitism in the US
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Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif’s appearance over the weekend on CBS’ Face the Nation showed him trying to convince someone — his minders at home, perhaps — that Iran is a moderate, trustworthy, terror-fighting country. The designation of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terror organization and the end of
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By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California — Congregation Beth El dedicated a 30 by 9 foot mural of a Tree of Life on Thursday, May 2, that incorporates, among other elements, ceramic butterflies symbolizing children who were murdered in the Holocaust. The outdoor Yom HaShoah ceremony led by the congregation’s former president Sonia Ancoli
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, USAPlease click on Number for previous installments: 1, 2 The Crazy Restaurant Scene (c) Edwin Black TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel’s adversaries in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement [BDS] thought they could starve Israel through economic warfare that included even its food sector. Many remember the BDS furor over SodaStream, Sabra hummus, ordinary fruits
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Edwin Black, Middle East, Travel and FoodEditor’s Note: This article is a short excerpt from Alon Ben-Meir’s latest essay, “Preventing an Israeli-Iran War,” published in the May 2019 issue of American Diplomacy. The full-length essay is available by clicking here By Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — Accusing Iran of being a rogue country bent on acquiring nuclear weapons, supporting extremist groups
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East, USABy Steve Kramer KFAR SAVA, Israel — “The term anti-Semitism was coined in 1879 by the German agitator [and Jew hater] Wilhelm Marr to designate the anti-Jewish campaigns under way in central Europe at that time. Although the term now has wide currency, it is a misnomer, since it implies a discrimination against all Semites.
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Steve Kramer, USA
By Carol Greenwald CHEVY CHASE, Maryland — Jewish Democrats must decide: Trump’s pro-Israel policies, or the increasingly anti-Israel policies of the Democratic Party. (May 1, 2019 / JNS) The next president of the United States will be able to reverse nearly every one of U.S. President Donald Trump’s pro-Israel actions because most of them have
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Middle East, USABy David Harris NEW YORK — In the Jewish tradition, we are commanded to remember (zachor) and not to forget (lo tishkach). This week we commemorate Yom HaShoah, the Day of Holocaust Remembrance. On this solemn occasion, 74 years after the end of World War II: We remember the six million Jewish martyrs, including 1.5
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NEW YORK (Press Release) — His Excellency, Dr. Mohammad Abdulkarim Al-Issa, Secretary General of the Muslim World League, will become the most senior Islamic leader to visit the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. The trip is a key element of a historic memorandum of understanding signed by Dr. Al-Issa and American Jewish Committee CEO David
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International, Middle East, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — While our president must do “some very heavy research…(to) get to the bottom of it,” most Americans figured it out instantly: A deranged person had access to firearms, in this case an assault rifle. The maniac murdered Lori Gilbert Kaye, 60, and injured three others on Saturday by
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Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last week, Jared Kushner, one of the administration’s point men on the Middle East, dispensed with the term “two-state solution” in its impending peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians. “The two-state solution has failed,” he said. Not for lack of trying. The “two-state solution” does not appear in
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