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Quartet “greatly concerned” by Israeli plans to build in Ariel, East Jerusalem

August 16, 2011

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–The following statement was issued Tuesday by the Middle East Quartet (United Nations, Russian Federation, United States, and European Union): The Quartet is greatly concerned by Israel’s recent announcements to advance planning for new housing units in Ariel and East Jerusalem, and reiterates its position in this regard, in particular its statement […]

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Middle East

Honduras should know better

August 16, 2011

By Shoshana Bryen Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –The President of Honduras has indicated that his government will support a vote in favor of “Palestine” in the United Nations General Assembly in September. Honduras, of all countries, should know better; not about Israel, but about importance of truth. When Manuel Zelaya, then President of Honduras, subverted the

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Glenn Beck want to protect Israel but doesn’t understand it

August 16, 2011

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Some time ago, a Texas friend wrote to ask how Glenn Beck’s pending mission to Israel was being received here. My response: it wasn’t. A few days ago, I wrote to him again with the news that Israel Today, the most conservative of the daily papers, had a story about Beck’s upcoming visit

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

America’s passport battle over Jerusalem

August 15, 2011

By Susan B. Tuchman, Esq. NEW YORK — The United States Supreme Court in Washington D.C. will be hearing an important case this fall that could affect the right of U.S. citizens born in Jerusalem, Israel’s capital, to formally identify with their birthplace in the State of Israel. In 2002, Congress passed legislation permitting American

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Middle East

Palestinians just don’t get the essence of politics

August 13, 2011

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It would be an extreme rejection of what is politically correct to claim that the Palestinians are not a people. Palestinian intellectuals expressed a sense of nationhood about a century ago. Most governments of the world are willing to grant them statehood. Doubters may point to the incomplete process of

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Navy Seal’s grandmother is angered by his death

August 12, 2011

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — One is hesitant to even remotely capitalize on someone else’s grief. This is hardly the intent here; rather, a desire to share something that informs my life. Beyond that, it haunts me and I sense that it is just at the cusp of a deeper, national impulse of

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USA

Why the financial community repudiates American politicians

August 10, 2011

By Isaac Yetiv LA JOLLA, California– The month-old painful spectacle of Washington partners-in-government fighting each other on “raising the debt limit,”something that should have never occurred in the first place, has strengthened my belief, expressed in a previous column, that the system as presently constituted is broke and, as a result, we have a dysfunctional

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USA

U.S. purposes in Afghanistan remain muddled

August 10, 2011

By Shoshana Bryen Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Having written that “the mission” is what counts when sending American soldiers to protect, to fight and sometimes to die on our behalf, readers challenged us to define the mission in Afghanistan. We tried. Going back to the beginning of the Obama administration, we looked at what the

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Shoshana Bryen, USA

Jewish Federations laud bill to aid aging Holocaust survivors

August 10, 2011

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)—The Jewish Federations of North America lauded the introduction of a Congressional bill to provide support for agencies serving Holocaust survivors as they age in place in communities across the country. This bill is a result of meetings and discussions that Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Iliana Ros-Lehtinen conducted with Holocaust survivors and social

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USA

LGBT community should be natural ally for Israel

August 10, 2011

By Lillian Faderman SAN DIEGO — Americans have every reason to envy Israel’s enlightened policies toward their LGBT citizens. So it puzzles me deeply when I hear of LGBT groups lending their sympathy to opponents of Israel. The rights we have been fighting for and still have not fully achieved in the United States, LGBT

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Middle East

Xinhua sign in Times Square is an affront

August 9, 2011

By Dan Bloom Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Propaganda comes in all sizes, and communist China wants a piece of Times Square in New York City now. Xinhua, the state-controlled propaganda agency of the Chinese Communist Party, has leased a longterm advertising logo space in Manhattan’s iconic Times Square, renting a huge LED sign called

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International

As Moses was tired of bickering, so too are the American people

August 8, 2011

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — Toward the beginning of the book of D’varim, Deuteronomy, Moses says to the people: “I cannot bear the burden of you by myself….How can I bear unaided the trouble of you, and the burden, and the bickering!” (Deut. 1:9-12) For the last couple of weeks all of us

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USA

Israeli protests: a secular backlash against religious settlers and Netanyahu’s foreign policy

August 8, 2011

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — It is not as dramatic a phenomenon in Israel as, say, the bold, treacherous discord ongoing in the Arab world. And certainly the thousands upon thousands of Israeli youth (and many older citizens) already have the freedom of assembly that their counterparts in Syria, Libya, Egypt and

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Middle East

Israeli demonstrations a media success, but will they change anything?

August 8, 2011

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –There is no doubting the success of those who organized demonstrations in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and elsewhere in behalf of social justice. Activists and their friends in the media are reporting that more than 300,000 participated. Police estimates are 200,000. Whatever the accuracy of one or another, the pictures were impressive.

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Quartet “greatly concerned” by Israeli plans to build in Ariel, East Jerusalem

Honduras should know better

Glenn Beck want to protect Israel but doesn’t understand it

America’s passport battle over Jerusalem

Palestinians just don’t get the essence of politics

Navy Seal’s grandmother is angered by his death

Why the financial community repudiates American politicians

U.S. purposes in Afghanistan remain muddled

Jewish Federations laud bill to aid aging Holocaust survivors

LGBT community should be natural ally for Israel

Xinhua sign in Times Square is an affront

As Moses was tired of bickering, so too are the American people

Israeli protests: a secular backlash against religious settlers and Netanyahu’s foreign policy

Israeli demonstrations a media success, but will they change anything?

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