Middle East

Editor’s E-Mail Box: July 10, 2018 (4 items)

Measure for Israel’s defense moves through U.S. Senate committee AIPAC applauds the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for adopting the U.S.-Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act of 2018 (S. 2497), which seeks to ensure that Israel has the means to defend itself, by itself, against growing and emerging threats—including Iran’s presence close to Israel’s northern border. This […]

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Pompeo outlines strategy for opposing Iran

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (Press Release) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo outlined America’s strategy for opposing Iranian expansionism in the Middle East during an interview Tuesday with Mohannad Al Khatib of Sky News Arabia. The U.S. State Department issued the following transcript of the interview which was conducted at the Fairmont Hotel

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International, Middle East, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box, July 9, 2018 (5 items)

Mixed reactions to Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court Stosh Cotler, CEO of Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, released the following statement: “President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, is an affront to the values and priorities of a vast majority of the American Jewish community. From workers’ rights

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International, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions, USA

‘Jewish Libya:’ background for the next James Michener

Jewish Libya: Memory & Identity in Text & Image, edited by Jacque Roumani, David Meghnagi & Judith Roumani; © 2018, Syracuse University Press, ISBN 9780815-635628; 280 pages plus bibliography, appendices, and index. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Jewish Libya is an anthology about a place that no longer exists.  Since Israel’s successful 1967

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Middle East

Diverse diners bid adieu to beloved restaurant

By Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, California — Salute, an Italian restaurant in Marina Bay, lost its lease under parlous circumstances and closed. On the last two days they prepared hundreds of free last suppers. It was crowded. The valet parking area was overwhelmed. Our table seated five Jews and one son of a Nazi. All

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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Oliver Pollak, Travel and Food, USA

Ranking Poles, other Europeans on their anti- Semitism

By Ira Shakansky JERUSALEM — Somewhere on our list of problems are the Poles. Also Hungarians and other European nationalists, concerned mostly about Muslim refugees but also expressing some of their historic enmity for us. The most recent excitement has focused on a law enacted by the Polish parliament, which initially threatened criminal action against

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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

Standing up to the ill- informed Israel haters

By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — People with strategic antennae can detect a throwback to the Soviet inspired canard of Zionism is Racism. This radical left-wing anti-Israel trope raised its ugly head way back in 2001 at the UN World Conference Against Racism in South Africa where thousands of anti-Israel demonstrators and groups hijacked the event

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Barry Shaw, International, Middle East, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: July 6, 2018 (8 items)

40 rabbis tour migrant centers in Tijuana, urge U.S. welcome immigrants This week, nearly 40 rabbis from across the country toured migrant centers in Tijuana as a part of a delegation to the U.S.-Mexico border. A growing number of asylum seekers have found temporary shelter and social services in Tijuana as they try to seek

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International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: July 5, 2018 (4 items)

Ruderman Family Foundation condemns anti Reform Judaism remarks of MK Yinon Azoulay The Ruderman Family Foundation calls on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to immediately and publically condemn Member of Knesset (MK) Yinon Azoulay of Shas, an active legislator within the ruling coalition, following his outrageous and inflammatory comments against non-Orthodox Jews and suggestion they stop

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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

John McCormick: A Kiwi friend of Israel

Editor’s Note: This is the 18th in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego.  Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment:  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17

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Donald H. Harrison, International, John McCormick, Middle East