By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California –Hey, so what’s new? Is that a new shirt? Do you have the new iPhone 6 or the new Apple Watch? Did you see my new Corvette? I want you to meet my new boyfriend. I will be 90 this year, and I am trying to keep up […]
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Natasha Josefowitz, USAVISTA, Calif. — For months now, Bernie Sanders and the other white-haired gentleman on the campaign trail, Bill Clinton, have feuded over how closely the future of the Democratic Party will resemble its past. They have disagreed over trade and crime policies pushed by Clinton, and health care and college tuition policies pursued by Sanders.
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USAHillary Clinton tried to draw a sharper contrast with Donald Trump on Sunday, saying the central message of her campaign was “We’re stronger together,” even as a new poll showed the two candidates in a statistical tie. The new Washington Post/ABC News survey found the presidential frontrunners in “a virtual dead heat” among registered voters.
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USADennis Ross, President Barack Obama”s former Middle East advisor, on Sunday criticized Obama and his decision to distance himself from Israel during his time in office. Speaking at the Jerusalem Post conference in New York, Ross said that Obama “is one of five presidents in modern history who have made a conscious decision to try
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Middle East, USAWith his chances of capturing the Democratic presidential nomination virtually nil, Sen. Bernie Sanders declined to rule out accepting an offer to be Hillary Clinton’s running mate. With just a handful of primaries left, Sanders trails the former secretary of state in the delegate count by 274 pledged delegates and 486 superdelegates. Clinton needs just
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USAWASHINGTON — Three weeks after The New York Times Magazine published its profile of deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes, in which he describes creating an “echo chamber” of nongovernmental organizations, nuclear proliferation experts and journalists to sell the Iran nuclear deal, it was revealed a group he cited as disseminating the administration’s narrative had
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Middle East, USAThe leftist American Jewish group J Street on Sunday issued a response to the revelation that it received more than half a million dollars to advocate for the Obama administration’s controversial nuclear deal with Iran. The expose, revealed by Associated Press, noted that the Ploughshares Fund was named in an explosive New York Times profile
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Story by Donald H. Harrison; photos by Shor M. Masori VISTA, California – On the crowded football field of Ranch Buena Vista High School, Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders endorsed a California measure that will be on this November’s ballot to legalize recreational use of marijuana. “We have got to rethink the so-called war
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Shor M. Masori, Travel and Food, USANEW YORK (Press Release)– World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder delivered remarks Sunday at the Jerusalem Post Annual Conference in New York, condemning the United Nations for its harmful anti-Semitic rhetoric, and for becoming little more than an anti-Israel political cartel. Lauder was joined by an array of Israeli ministers, Knesset members and officials,
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International, Middle East, USAConservative and big-money allies of Donald Trump are laying the groundwork for him to visit Israel this summer, an idea backed by Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson, The Guardian reported on Saturday. According to the report, the Jewish-American billionaire recently indicated in a meeting with the candidate that he would provide about $100 million to help
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Middle East, USAJ-Street received more than half a million dollars to advocate for the Obama administration’s controversial nuclear deal with Iran, it has been revealed. The liberal Jewish group, which bills itself as “pro-Israel and pro-peace” but which critics say takes solely anti-Israel stances, was paid the money by the White House’s main surrogate organization for selling
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Story by Donald H. Harrison; photos by Shor M. Masori CHULA VISTA, California – Former U.S. President Bill Clinton was the chief cheerleader on Saturday, May 21, for valuing American residential and workplace diversity and for electing his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as the nation’s first woman president Clinton spoke in
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Donald H. Harrison, Shor M. Masori, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Two friends, who I am sure do not know one another, have provoked this column with issues dealing with what appear to be different matters. One worries about the weakness of Liberal Judaism in Israel. Another sent me an item about “complexity science.” The topics link to one another. The “findings”
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USADonald Trump’s immigration plan is no different from that night Nazi Germany gave paramilitary groups the nod to viciously crush the Jewish population in 1938, according to Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld. Weld said Thursday that Trump’s plan reminded him of Kristallnacht, the infamous “night of broken windows” that served as a preamble to worse