By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Barack Obama is not a Muslim, but, he shows signs of a Wannabe. He emphasizes his middle name and his father’s origins when talking to Muslim audiences. That’s not a sin, but an effort to establish identity. He’d be a lousy politician if he didn’t play that game. However, he […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA
Jews in the Wild West, written and illustrated by Kay Miller; Paint Horse Press © 2012, ISBN 978-0-615-55388-7; 29 pages, $9.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Although this book for juvenile readers was published in 2012, I know from lecturing about Jews in the West that the story it tells so very well is hardly
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, USACompiled by Donald H. Harrison Twenty-three Democrats including Jewish Reps. Steve Cohen of Tennessee and John Yarmuth of Kentucky, have signed a letter requesting Speaker of the House John Boehner to postpone Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheduled March 3 speech to a Joint Session of Congress. Other signers included Keith Ellison (D-MN), Maxine Waters (D-CA)
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USA
Editor’s Note: The following column appeared originally in the Washington Post and later on The American Prospect. It is reprinted with permission. By Harold Myerson WASHINGTON, D.C. — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is giving chutzpah a bad name. Over the past several weeks, Netanyahu has aligned himself and his cause with the Republican Party,
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release)– The virulently anti-Semitic Nation of Islam (NOI), fronted by notorious hatemonger Louis Farrakhan, is holding its annual convention in Chicago on Sunday, where Farrakhan is expected to address his audience with a message that most likely will include strident anti-Semitic rhetoric. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which monitors the activities of Farrakhan and
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– Rabbi David Saperstein, formerly the executive director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, was sworn in Friday, Feb. 20, as U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Religous Freedom. Following are the comments by Secretary of State John Kerry and Ambassador Saperstein at that cremony: SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good afternoon to all of
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International, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–At the close of the Summit to Combat Violent Extremism, President Barack Obama gave this address to an international gathering that participated at the U.S. State Department. We come together from more than 60 countries from every continent. We speak different languages, born of different races and ethnic groups, belong to
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International, Middle East, USA
NEW YORK (Press Release)– America’s Reform rabbis are making a major effort to change worship to match the needs and desires of today’s Reform Jews. In alignment with trends highlighted by the recent Pew study on American Jews, Reform rabbis are creating a new High Holiday service that makes all prayers LGBT friendly, adds references to God as
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Jewish Religion, USA
LOS ANGELES (Press Release)– Leaders of NA’AMAT USA joined representatives of the organization from Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Belgium, Argentina, Uruguay and Israel last week for the first NA’AMAT International Solidarity Conference in Israel. The delegation, led by national president Elizabeth Raider, were special guests of the President of Israel Reuven Rivlin during the conference’s opening
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International, Middle East, USA
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — A baby girl was born on Thursday night, February 19 in Jerusalem during the snowstorm that swept the capital, Golan Heights and other part of northern Israel as well as Judea and Samaria, and even the southern city of Be’er Sheva. In Jerusalem, Magen David Adom (MDA) received a
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Middle EastBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Jordanian, 21 Egyptians and 4 Americans sounds like the start of a bad joke, but it is not. They, along with thousands of others, have been murdered by the Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL, or Daesh) in the Middle East, and by Boko Haram in Nigeria. The victims
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — Is there a qualitative difference between the murder of over six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Shoah and the beheading of twenty-one Egyptian Coptic Christians by ISIS in Libya? I don’t think so. Genocide is the intentional destruction of a national, cultural, or
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International, Middle East, USA
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Motti Kirshenbaum, the co-host of a popular daily television news hour, suggested on Thursday evening that Jerusalemites were preparing for the snow storm – it came late that day and continued through the night and on Friday – the way our ancestors prepared for the siege of Jerusalem by
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Middle EastNEW YORK (WJC) — A significant majority of Americans — some 77% of those polled — see the “development of nuclear weapons by Iran” as a “critical threat;” another 16% see it as “important but not critical”, according to new numbers from Gallup. ISIS and international terrorism loom largest in Americans’ minds as critical threats
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International, Middle East, USA