By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Things to Say to Donald Trump Supporters when they say: “He’s funding his own campaign and is not beholden to any special interest group.” Whether Donald Trump has ten billion dollars as he boasts, or only four billion as Forbes estimates, he is a special interest group.The corollary to the reasoning that he […]
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – In the matter of replacing the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, we have been witnessing a tactic perhaps best described as Republican senators putting fingers in their ears and saying to President Obama “we know we won’t like what you are going to tell us, so
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Let’s imagine that you grew up in a liberal, self-identifying Jewish family. You’re pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, pro-immigration, pro-diversity, and pro-Israel. On the first four counts, it would seem, you are closely aligned with Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. But on the fifth count, Israel, you find
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USATop Jewish leader cites ‘collective responsibility’ to fight campus anti-Semitism (JNS.org) Seventy-five percent of American Jewish students say they have witnessed or experienced anti-Semitism on their college campuses, a problem that “we have a collective responsibility to address,” said Malcolm Hoenlein, CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, in an interview
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International, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Hassan Nasrallah’s latest tirade is his threat to send missiles against an ammonia plant in Haifa. He calls it his nuclear weapon, that would produce 800,000 casualties.. This in a context of Hezbollah deeply involved in Syria, and losing thousands of its fighters. Nasrallah himself is in Iran for treatment
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Shoshana Bryen and Stephen Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — One great disconnect afflicting American society is between earning a profit and safeguarding our national security. On one side are those who support free trade in the belief that open markets and shared technology trade strengthen the economy. On the other hand, there is something categorically
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International, Shoshana Bryen, Stephen D. Bryen, USA
By Lisa Herndon NEW YORK — At 102, J. Zel Lurie “39 is likely the Columbia Journalism School”s longest-working journalist. Lurie, who lives in Delray Beach, Florida, suffers from macular degeneration and can no longer read, but it has never occurred to him to end a writing career that started decades ago. Only now, he
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Jewish History, Middle East, USABy Kenneth Bandler NEW YORK — The American Jewish Committee (AJC) applauds the Council of Paris for adopting two resolutions on Tuesday, Feb. 16, opposing the BDS (boycott, sanctions and divestment) movement that has been targeting Israel. The council is the governing body for the French capital. The Paris Council action firmly opposes “all attempts
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International, Middle East, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Two IDF reservists, touring Southern California as guests of the pro-Israel advocacy group StandWithUS, described to several audiences the precautions the Israeli military takes to avoid civilian casualties in Gaza and other areas of combat operations. At the same time, Edan and Gilad (their last names withheld by
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Speaking at a Shabbat luncheon at Tifereth Israel Synagogue, Rabbi Jonathan Stein, secretary of the national Mazon board of trustees, said that hungry people receiving government food stamps obtain the equivalent of $4.50 per day, which based on three meals a day, works out to $1.50 per meal. The
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Donald H. Harrison, International, The World We Share, USABy Kenneth Bandler NEW YORK — The American Jewish Committee stands in solidarity with the Danish people as they commemorate on Sunday, Feb. 14, the terrorist attacks that left two dead and five injured one year ago. An Islamist terrorist attacked a free speech event at a Copenhagen café, killing Danish filmmaker Finn Norgaard, and several hours later murdered
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International, USABy Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — I would like to reply to the article written by Rabbi Ben Kamin “In Praise of Barack Obama” on Feb. 11, 2016, in San Diego Jewish World. My problem is where to begin? At the beginning…of course….. Rabbi Kamin’s opening sentence in which he describes a political advisor to one
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It isn’t all about great ideas, inspiring movements, massive rallies, calls for salvation or death. There is also reason to think about some curiosities, that may or may not be significant. Most prominent on my radar is a curious slice of gerontocracy competing for the presidency of the world’s most
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USANEW YORK — The American Jewish Committee (AJC) fully shares the outrage of the Reform movement in response to the disparaging remarks made by Israeli Tourism Minister Yariv Levin. The controversy erupted after Levin declared that “Reform Jews in the U.S. are a dying world.” “His words are both offensive and off-base,” said AJC Chief
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA