By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — Before we begin, let the record show I’m a Philistine – not one of the old crude, warlike race of Biblical infamy, but the modern style: “disdainful of intellectual or artistic values” When it comes to food, for instance, I eat a lot but have no or low
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Joel H. Cohen, Travel and Food, USABy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — Over the past year, I had the opportunity to speak to many Turkish scholars and former government officials, the majority of whom left your country because they feared for their lives and their loved ones. The one question that kept on surfacing is why a leader like you—who has
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I alighted from my pony, and gave him the range of his lariat. I perceived that he preferred a breakfast of fresh grass to the contemplation of the sublime scene around me, to which he seemed totally indifferent. — Solomon Nunes Carvalho, Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West with Col. Fremont’s Last
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Travel and Food, USABy Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the sidelines of the international conference on Iran currently being held in Warsaw. Netanyahu thanked Pompeo and Vice President Mike Pence for pulling together the conference in which “an Israeli prime minister and the
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, USA, Yeruchem Eilfort-RabbiBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Obviously, Israelis will have a special interest in the outcome of the upcoming elections, and I’m sure they know more about the issues than I do. For people outside Israel, the election campaign seems complex and confusing. Yet I’m certain that the outcome is extremely relevant also for Jews
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Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – One hundred seven years ago today, on February 14, 1912, President William Howard Taft signed a proclamation making Arizona the 48th State of the Union. The Republican president may have thought that his signature culminated a long fight with Progressive Democrats in Arizona over the question of the
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, USABy Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – Democratic U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon has asked Google and Apple to remove from sale an app developed in Saudi Arabia to permit Saudi husbands to track, monitor and thereby control the movement of women in their families. According to The Washington Post, Wyden denounced Saudi Arabia’s
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and FoodBy Steve Kramer KFAR SAVA, Israel — Politically speaking, do you consider yourself a liberal, a progressive, a conservative, a libertarian, left wing, right wing, none of the above? Regardless, are you a supporter of Israel? If so, do you support or “follow” one organization or another that is involved with Israel, whether it be
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USABy Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL –Nita Lowey and Richard Shelby, chairs respectively of the House and Senate Appropriations Committee, along with members of their committees, hammered out a tentative deal to avoid a second government shut down in the face of President Trump’s demand for a wall at the Mexican border. According to a
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By Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, California — The New York Times reported on February 7, 2019 about a court decision in which the Austrian government has to pay a property owner in Braunau, a town of about 16,000 people in upper Austria, $1.7 million dollars for undervaluing the apartment building in which Hitler was born
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, InternationalBy Donald H. Harrison THE OMAR AFFAIR– Responding to a comment by Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota that Members of Congress support Israel because “It’s all about the Benjamins,” that is $100 bills, and that AIPAC pays the members to vote for Israel, Matt Brooks, executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, called for
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego Calendar, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Despite a fierce attack from Bibi, Gideon Sa’ar succeeded in getting to #5 on the Knesset list of Likud. Above him are Netanyahu, Yuli Edelstein, Yitzhak Katz, and Gilad Erdan. Bibi responded with a comment that Sa’ar couldn’t expect to be a senior minister in his next government. Beneath Bibi’s
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – Ruth Bader Ginsburg has recently beaten back cancer, but at age 85, she’s the oldest Justice on the Supreme Court. Bloomberg columnist Ramesh Ponnuru reports that just in case she leaves the court, President Trump has a short list of seven candidates from which to pick her replacement.
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — The week opened with a loose alliance formed between AOC, as the Bronx/Queens congresswoman is known, and Britain’s Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. By Friday, a predictable rumor emerged that a Jewish Labour member of Parliament might form a breakaway party. Could it happen here? I have long
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