By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — My readers have weighed in on a recent column. According to one, I was not sensitive enough in recognizing how dastardly was Ahmed Tibi in referring to Anastassia Michaeli as “cos amok.” According to another, Tibi really is a traitor, in speaking out so forecefully in favor of Palestinian interests while […]
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By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–When terrorists were killing Israelis on buses, in restaurants and other places where people gathered, the country soon developed a system that put guards almost everywhere. The attacks abated but didn’t stop – there’re still guards around – so a wall was built that isolated the occupied territories, because the attackers
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Middle EastBy Joel and Arlene Moskowitz LA JOLLA, California–Adolph Eichmann is a name that is likely to be unfamiliar to present generations of young Jews and even more so to young gentiles. Eichmann’s End, a film about an evil man who effected the annihilation of the Jews and other peoples despised by the Nazis over six decades ago
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International, Jewish History, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Avi Bell SAN DIEGO — Balboa Park is a jewel in the crown of this city for families to enjoy culture and history. Unfortunately, it was not January 14 for a group of extremist anti-Israel protestors promoting hatred of Israel and the Jewish people for the third year in a row. Their express purpose
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–You may have already read the words spoken by Steve Linde, the new editor of the Jerusalem Post, at the WIZO – the international women’s Zionist organization -conference in Tel Aviv earlier this week, but they’re worth repeating because they highlight a serious problem of credibility. Linde is quoted to have
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Note the plural in the headline. It is not an error, but the theme of this column. Designations of Jerusalem above and Jerusalem below have been around for a long time. They have been adopted by Jews, but may have been introduced in their explicit form by the New
By Linda Sax Snaid SAN DIEGO — While my husband looked for snacks recently in an airport lounge in Atlanta, a smiling gentleman took the seat opposite me. He was on layover from Dubai, returning from a visit with one of his children. Both he and his children were educated at elite European universities. He
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Middle EastPosted January 19, 2012 By Samara Greenberg WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last Friday, Thai authorities arrested a Lebanese native with Swedish citizenship, identified as Atris Hussein, suspected of being involved in the Hezbollah terror group and planning an attack. The arrest came after Israel and the U.S. informed Bangkok back in December that three Hezbollah operatives
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By Rabbi Ben Kamin LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — Although Georgia Davis Powers is 88 years old, she remains fit, feisty, vibrant, alert, creative, and determined to be remembered as more than a woman connected romantically to Martin Luther King, Jr. The first time she ever visited Memphis was at his behest; she drove through a rainy night from
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — One of the staples of 2011 punditry has been the “decline” of the United States. See Google’s 190,000,000 results in 0.26 seconds for “U.S.decline in power.” China in particular, pundits say, is about to eat our economic lunch, and all that’s left for us is to figure out how
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Shoshana Bryen, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — I’m happy to be able to say something (almost) good about Avigdor Lieberman: he’s opposed to the extension ofIsrael’s so-called Tal Law. The law is named after a retired Israeli judge who headed a commission some years ago that recommended that haredim continue to be exempt from military service.
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By Jack Forman SAN DIEGO–Dusk is an intriguing, imaginatively-directed and very well acted 90-minute Israeli film which in Hebrew is titled Beyn Hashmashot. But a more accurate translation of the Hebrew title is “Twilight”; literally, “Beyn Hashmashot” means “between the suns”, i.e., between the sunset and the onset of evening. (In English, the onset of
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Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–You want fairness from this aging academic? This is a time when I’ll side with a prominent Israeli Arab politician, who has been a source of considerable annoyance for us Jews. But fair is fair. In the last couple of days he earned my commendation. Ahmed Tibi, MD, is one
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Rear Admiral Terence E. McKnight, USN (ret.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Just recently President Obama crossed the Potomac River and stopped at the Pentagon to roll out America’s newest national security strategy – Sustaining Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense. The key thesis of the strategy is that after ten years of war in the Middle
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