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Call the enemy by its right name — Radical Islam

 “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, thinking it will eat him last.”–Sir Winston Churchill By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement policy is well known. The crocodile Churchill is referring to is Adolf Hitler. For decades, Europe had no problem sacrificing Israel to the […]

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International, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East, USA

Polled Muslims show sympathy for religious killings

By Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — France now has its own “9/11,” joining the UK (7/7/05), Spain (3/11/04) and Mumbai (26/11/08). It’s about time for Europe, as well as America, to face the fact that what’s going on is a religious war, a Western war against Muslims who are “radical,” if you prefer to

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International, Middle East, Steve Kramer, USA

Israeli – local pacts proposed for water, cyber security

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – If you want to bring a gleam to the eyes of David Siegel, Israel’s Consul General based in Los Angeles, ask him about the prospects for high-tech cooperation in the fields of water management and cyber-security between Israel and various American cities and states. During an interview Thursday,

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County, USA

U.N. event rues ‘Zionism is racism’ resolution

By Kenneth Bandler NEW YORK —  The American Jewish Committee, together with the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations and the Chaim Herzog Public Council, sponsored a major event at the UN on Wednesday, Nov. 11, marking the 40th anniversary of the historic speech by Israeli Ambassador to the UN Chaim Herzog’s denouncing the

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International, Middle East, USA

U.S., Israel agree to curb Iranian aggression

By Jacob Kamaras/JNS.org WASHINGTON, D.C. — Despite their disagreement over the Iran nuclear deal, the U.S. and Israel “can and should work together now” to ensure that Iran complies with the agreement and to curb Iranian aggression throughout the Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday at the General Assembly of The Jewish Federations

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International, Jacob Kamaras, Middle East, USA

Today’s candidates vapid compared to those of ’60s

By Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — It’s painful to compare the presidential candidates of 2016 to, say, those who sought the office in 1968—when my generation was living through both the gallant civil rights movement and the ghastly war in Vietnam. This lament applies to leadership figures in general—they are dwarfed against the largeness

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Never Again: Holocaust news for November 7, 2015

After the Survivors perish, who will tell their stories? By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan–Some time in the near future, the last known Holocaust survivor will pass away, and there will be no more people to tell the first-hand story of what happened in those dark days in Europe. When I asked two people recently

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History, USA

American Jewish Report: November 6, 2015

Reform Judaism umbrella passes transgender rights measure ORLANDO, Florida (JNS.org) The umbrella body of Reform Judaism in the U.S. passed a resolution to recognize the rights of transgender individuals on Thursday. The Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) voted on the “Resolution on the Rights of Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People” at its biennial conference in

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Jewish Religion, USA