Middle East

Seemingly, little of substance in Obama-Netanyahu meeting

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–As expected, the White House meeting between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu was an occasion for mutual admiration and pledges of cooperation. It was much different from the image conveyed by their previous meeting, when the White House had blasted the timing of an Israeli planning committee’s announcement about […]

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

Israelis Matathias and Stanislavsky perform beautifully together at local recital

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO –Violinist Asi Matathias and pianist Victor Stanislavsky presented an exciting recital on June 17 at the Dove Library in Carlsbad. This concert was part of the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture’s Music Series and was underwritten by the Leichtag Foundation. The two young Israeli artists shared their formidable talents

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Eileen Wingard, Middle East

Can Israel depend on President Obama in a crunch?

By Dr. Michael Goldblatt Chairman, Zionist Organization of America  PHILADELPHIA–It is clear that Israel faces some serious dangers and lurking threats, most obviously the threat of nuclear-armed Iran whose regime speaks frequently of a world without Israel and America. Three Iranian presidents have spoken publicly of seeing Israel eliminated by nuclear strikes, despite the costs

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Middle East, USA

IBM awards new computer center at University of Haifa a $40,000 grant

HAIFA (Press Release)–Just a few months after being established, the University of Haifa’s Ami and Teddy Sagy Center for the Study of the Internet has been awarded IBM’s Open Collaborative Research grant. Head of the Center, Prof. Sheizaf Rafaeli, and Dr. Daphne Raban, a member of the research faculty at the Center, have been awarded

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Middle East

Novelist Grossman believes negotiations can solve some problems with Hamas

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–David Grossman is one of Israel’s most celebrated intellectuals, with an impressive list of prizes for thoughtful and provocative fiction. He also authored descriptions of Israeli Arabs and Palestinians that capture conditions that derive from their own cultures and from living under the shadow created by Israel. Long an opponent of force

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What does an agreement between U.S. and Israel really mean?

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release)–As Prime Minister Netanyahu arrives for his 5th set of meetings with President Obama, the headline in one newspaper is, “Obama mum on Bush’s borders for Israel,” noting, “The White House has declined to publicly affirm commitments made by President Bush to Israel in 2004 on the final borders

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Two greatest disruptors of life in Jerusalam: Obama and Moskowitz

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Cities are places where people of different backgrounds and outlooks come together and make do with one another. Jerusalem is no different, but it is also different. Prominent groups in the population are Arabs, about 30 percent, and ultra-Orthodox Jews, about 30 percent of the Jewish population.  For Jerusalemites who are neither

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Remembering another July 4 when an American president stood up for Israel

 By Rabbi Ben Kamin   SAN DIEGO — One recalls July 4, 1976—the great Bicentennial—with much nostalgia and affection.  America was exactly 200 years old, had survived the Watergate scandals and a presidential resignation without bloodshed or constitutional tremors.    The dreadful Vietnam War was over after some fifteen years of entanglement, though we struggled (and

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Middle East, USA

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, August 6, 1954, Part 3

Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Southwestern Jewish Press, August 6, 1954, Page 5 Terror in Rumania (Editorial) Recent revelations regarding the reign of terror conducted by the Communist Government against Zionists there have shocked many in the free world.  Communists in Israel, faced by the news that 200 Zionist leaders in Rumania have

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