By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Walking through the exhibit hall at Comic-Con, I heard someone ask, “Would you like some free comic books for peace?” and when I turned, there was a smiling young woman wearing a hijab. Of course, I was interested right away. Could they mean peace between Arabs and […]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, San Diego County, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — What appears to be an oil tanker war brewing in the Red Sea and beyond, including the downing of an Iranian drone by a U.S. Navy ship, is more evidence that Iran is showing the strain of American-led sanctions and reluctant European acknowledgment that appeasing the Islamic Republic is
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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — There’s been a lot of buzz about whether or not it’s racist to say, “Go back where you came from!” Most white conservatives are saying that it isn’t, while virtually everyone else is saying that it is. So here’s some food for thought: In my training as an actor,
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Eric George Tauber, Travel and Food, USABy Shoshana Bryen inFOCUS Quarterly WASHINGTON, D.C. —One of the few points of unbounded bipartisan agreement in Washington has for decades been that U.S.-Israel security cooperation is right, good, mutually beneficial and worth every nickel spent on it. It is well–grounded in facts and acknowledged benefits to both sides. Today, however, support for Israel is
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Steve Kramer KFAR SAVA, Israel –I write articles like this one because popular columnists such as Peter Beinart have the reach and the power to misinform many readers. In a recent article on the traditionally leftist and Jewish Forward site, Beinart has again revealed himself as one who gets it all backwards. His pedigree
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USABy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — The new radical force in American politics has come to be represented by what is called “The Squad, ”four new and radical Democratic congresswomen who have used their gender and their ethnicity as a battering ram to force themselves and their radical policies to the center of their party.
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Barry Shaw, Middle East, USA
By Caleb Tisdale MARRAKECH, Morocco — Attracting young people to radical, extremist ideas is not hard. Just ask the ISIS recruiters behind one of the most effective propaganda presences in the world. Extremist groups are so effective at recruitment because the target audience is easily identified and appealed to: those who are at the margins
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InternationalBy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — A recent full-page ad in the New York Times really resonated with me, and I hope it registered with all Americans, Jews especially, as well. It was not selling a product or technology, but a long-held, seemingly endangered principle: welcoming the stranger. A tribute “with much love and respected”
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International, Joel H. Cohen, USABy Cynthia Citron NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California — It’s been nearly 35 years since the beloved film star Rock Hudson died of a heretofore unknown disease called AIDS.At the time, Ronald Reagan, who had been a movie star himself (although not a beloved one) was president. Hereacted to news of the malady that was soon to
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Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
By Sarita Mehta MARRAKECH, Morocco — As a child, I frequently remember many lazy summer days spent lugging my purple Huffy bike up the cement dunes of my suburban neighborhood. Following the parade of my two older brothers and my neighbor, I would often times find myself summiting hills that turned my palms sweaty. Looking
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s still labeled the two-state solution, despite clear evidence that it requires at least three states. With Gaza kept separate from the West Bank, as its leaders seem to desire. Americans imagine that it’s only the Israeli right that frustrates the creation of a Palestinian State. Yet the reality is
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Jerry Klinger HOLLY SPRINGS, Mississippi — I have dedicated scores of historical markers and memorials across America as President of the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation (JASHP). Almost all the projects have a Jewish theme or background story. Next month in Marietta, Georgia, JASHP will dedicate the first ever anti-lynching memorial to all
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, USABy Eric George Tauber (he, him, his) SAN DIEGO — Splashed all over the news was this weekend’s Pride Parade. What began as a riot in 1969 is now a celebration with municipal support and corporate sponsorship. With roughly 300,000 participants, San Diego has one of the largest in the world. Less publicized was the Trans-Pride
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USABy H. Applebaum SAN DIEGO — Thousands of Africans, sick, malnourished, and frightened, were huddled together on the floor of the hold, and many died on the trip. It wasn’t the hold of a 19th century slave ship, but a plane that had been stripped of seats to accommodate more people. It was May, 24,
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