By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Israel will hold municipal elections next month. Who will run Israel’s largest city, Jerusalem, with a population of some 860,000? The present mayor isn’t standing again, because he’s said to have his eyes on national politics. There’s a host of candidates ready to replace him. Though the number will […]
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Middle EastBy Steve Kramer KFAR SAVA, Israel — According to britannica.com, nationalism is, “… an ideology based on the premise that the individual’s loyalty and devotion to the nation-state surpass other individual or group interests … it [is] one of the great, if not the greatest, single determining factors of modern history.” Zionism, the need of
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StandWithUs condemns goals of National Students for Justice conference at UCLA StandWithUs strongly condemns the stated goals of the National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) Conference, scheduled to take place at UCLA November 16-18. The theme and goals of the conference celebrate blatant violations of free speech and say that, “the reason we can
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AJC says perpetrators of Rohingya genocide should be held accountable The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has welcomed the UN report on genocide committed against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar and urges the UN Security Council to take concrete action to implement the report’s recommendations. “The horrific attacks against the Rohingya cannot be ignored. It
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By Donald H. Harrison CHULA VISTA, California – The 1st Century Jewish philosopher and religious scholar, Philo, was very familiar with the Torah, commenting here and there on different portions of the Five Books of Moses in writings that were spread over approximately 40 publications in the native Greek language that he spoke in his
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle EastIsraeli bill would give favorable tax treatment to minority towns with high IDF enlistment rates A proposed bill in the Knesset aims to encourage minority enlistment in the IDF and national service by granting tax deductions to minority towns with a high enlistment rate. According to the explanatory section of the bill, which will
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International, Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration has restored the United States to the position of honest broker – emphasis on “honest” – and taken a hatchet to a series of fantasies underlying the notion of an Israeli-Palestinian “peace process.” Twenty-five years after the Oslo Accords ushered in radical, despotic, kleptocratic Palestinian self-government, the
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Editor’s Note: The following is excerpted from a farewell column written by Debra DeLee, the longtime president of Americans for Peace Now, upon her retirement. By Debra DeLee NEW YORK — … The targets of my rage are those who know right from wrong, yet have chosen wrong for personal or political expedience. My rage
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Princeton Lyman, who helped organize airlift of Ethiopian Jews, is mourned Arthur Stark, Chairman and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations issued the following statement: The Conference of Presidents on Tuesday expressed its deep regret on the passing of the Hon. Princeton Lyman, who, as Deputy
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The Israel Bible (Hebrew and English Edition) by Rabbi Tuly Weisz; Hardcover: 2212 pages; Publisher: Menorah Books; Bilingual edition (July 10, 2018); Language: Hebrew, English; ISBN-10: 1940516803; Cost: $44.00 By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — In today’s world, there are all sorts of different types of commentaries on the Scriptures on a variety
Congressional Gold Medal honors memory of Anwar Sadat’s peace-making with Israel History was made in the US Senate when it unanimously passed a bill to honor former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat with the Congressional Gold Medal. S.266 is a bill, co-sponsored by 71 Senators, is a bipartisan legislation that was introduced by Senator Orrin Hatch
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Story and photos by Sheldon F. Merel SAN DIEGO — Hadassah presented Dr. Luba Levin-Banchik , a visiting Israeli Professor at San Diego State University, at its third annual event on Sunday, July 26. After Prof. Levin-Banchik’s speech , we heard from two guests about why they are offering $10,000 in matching funds to
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Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel, z"l, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — One of our big mysteries is Donald Trump. Latest news is a report by his former lawyer that Trump ordered payment of silence money to two babes during the 2016 campaign. And assertions that he fathered a child with a cleaning women at his New York residence. For us, hints
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — One day last week three young men (a doctor and two nurses working in an Israeli hospital) were on the beach in Haifa, a city known for its serious efforts at Jewish-Arab coexistence. They were approached by another man and asked if they were Arabs. They answered in the
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