By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The Haifa court’s decision about Rachel Corrie, and the California court decision on Apple vs Samsung provoke me to think again about my former homeland. The Corrie decision received considerable attention in American media, at least for a day or two. Numerous Americans echoed the Corrie family litany of injustice, official cover-up, […]
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By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO—Editor Don Harrison of this publication asked me to write an article about why I signed up with Rabbis for Obama. I’ve wanted to contemplate it for a while so that any attempt to respond would be based purely on positives. The national campaign underway is already contaminated with enough negativity
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By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — How much recent events have eroded U.S. security interests in Egypt depends on how deeply rooted those interests were in the first place. Although the Mubarak government did some things we wanted it to do, it did other things that were anathema. Mubarak, with U.S. complicity and Israeli acquiescence,
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryenwww.jns.org/news-briefs Romney, at GOP convention, slams Obama’s diplomatic Iran approach (JNS.org) Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, addressing the Republica National Convention on Aug. 30, said “every American is less secure today because [Obama] has failed to slow Iran’s nuclear threat,” slamming a current White House approach that maintains there is still time for diplomacy and sanctions to
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InternationalKhamenei blasts ‘ferocious Zionist wolves’ at Iran-hosted NAM summit (JNS.org) Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, speaking Thursday at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit host by his country, called Israelis “ferocious Zionist wolves who digest the Palestinian people.” United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, who controversially decided to attend the summit amid the Islamic Republic’s growing
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — David Ben Gurion once said, “We will know we have become a normal country when Jewish thieves and Jewish prostitutes conduct their business in Hebrew.” A more up to date indicator of Israel’s normality, taken from recent news, is young Jews terrorizing Arabs. Are these occasions for “oy gevalt,” or simply
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By Isaac Yetiv , Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — The drafters of the US Constitution, fearing ” the rule of one opinion, whether of a tyrant or of a mob,” created a government structure premised on the idea that humans are fallible, fickle, and unreliable…and need to be feared. James Madison, who promoted this
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USABy Jay Shapiro JERUSALEM — Almost everyone seems to agree that the Iranian nuclear weapons project should be stopped. Preferably through economic sanctions against Iran, but if that doesn’t work, then military means will have to be used. But if a military operation is required, should it be carried out by the United States or
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Middle Eastwww.jns.org/news-briefs Anti-Semitic attacks in France up 40% since March, month of school shooting (JNS.org) French Jews have seen an uptick of 40 percent in anti-Semitic attacks since March, when Islamist terrorist Mohammed Merah killed three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in Toulouse, Reuters reported. According to Simon Wiesenthal Center Dean Abraham Cooper,
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InternationalDETROIT, Michigan (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Tuesday, Aug. 28, expressed outrage and horror at an alleged anti-Semitic hate crime against a student at Michigan State University. The student was knocked unconscious and had his mouth stapled shut by two men at a party, after the men allegedly asked the student if he
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By Judy Lash Balint JERUSAELM — Back in March 2003 when Rachel Corrie was killed while trying to prevent Israel from clearing ground to expose terrorist hiding places, I interviewed several International Solidarity Movement (ISM) people who were present in Rafiah that day. Having lived for many years in Washington State where Corrie attended
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By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California —One of my favorite lines from Simon and Garfunkel’s greatest hits reads: Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you (Woo, woo, woo) What’s that you say, Mrs. Robinson Joltin’ Joe has left and gone away (Hey, hey, hey…hey, hey, hey)
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle EastBy Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO –None of them who planned it—and it was not very well planned—were certain it would succeed. Nor was it some kind of new idea. A. Philip Randolph, the wiry, erudite, socialist equivalent of MLK one generation earlier, had actually conceived of mass march on the capital, one that would
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