Two Israeli homes damaged by ‘stray fire’ from Gaza (JNS.org) The Israeli Air Force struck a Hamas training base in northern Gaza late Wednesday night, hours after gunfire from the base hit two homes in the southern Israeli border community of Netiv Haasara. The initial Israel Defense Forces assessment was that the Israeli homes had […]
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International, Middle East, USAAnti-Semitic cartoon printed on credit card from Norwegian bank (JNS.org) A credit card issued by a Norwegian bank sparked a controversy by featuring an anti-Semitic cartoon that resembles a throwback to the Nazi era. The DNB Bank card features an unflattering image of a large-nosed Jewish man wearing a prayer shawl that bears the Star
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International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — One can guess that the Palestinians have gone the route of Mt McKinley. The time of both in the spotlight may have passed, but we’re not sure of either’s demise. Barack Obama’s move to bestow on what had been called Mt McKinley for more than a century the name given
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By Donald H. Harrison FAIRFIELD, California – On a day that my son David and his wife Cathy had to go to their work, and our grandchildren were in schools, my wife Nancy and I arranged to meet former Escondido residents Gerry and Judy Burstain, and Judy’s mother, Eleanor Lieb, halfway between the
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Donald H. Harrison, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida — Enough hot air has been expelled in the last few months, mostly by Republicans, to fill several dozen hot air balloons. As I wrote in my last column, the nuclear agreement with Iran, painfully and carefully negotiated, was a done deal the moment it was signed by
Israel, P.A. farther apart than ever Read More »
International, Middle East, USAIsraeli government gives Arab sector $230 million in aid (JNS.org) Israel’s Arab municipal councils will receive a one-time budgetary supplement of $230 million from the Israeli government before the end of the year. There are a number of predominantly Arab towns and local councils in Israel, most of which are characterized by poor populations. “The
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Middle East, USABy Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — I have always had a peculiar fascination for Jewish gangsters. Over the years, I would read much written about the Jewish mob. How could I not be enthralled with guys who had nicknames like, “Little Farvel”, “Legs”, “Dopey”, “Waxey”, “Greenie”, “Who-Ha”, “Kid Twist”, “Dutch”, “Tick-Tock”, “The Bug”, “Dimples”?
Jewish mobsters fought Bund, helped Israel Read More »
Middle East, USABy Arkady Mamaysky TARRYTOWN, New York — Many provisions of the proposed nuclear agreement with Iran are not satisfactory, which leads to the conclusion that the agreement itself is unacceptable. The most important issue is totally intolerable – namely, the proposed 10- to 15-year duration of the agreement. For some reason, opponents of the
How about one small change for the Iran N- deal? Read More »
Arkady Mamaysky, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s time for another round of that hoary folk song about disaster just about everywhere, i.e., “They’re rioting in Africa, they’re starving in Spain . . . ” The ugliest story concerns more than 70 bodies, decomposed to a smelly lump making counts difficult and identification impossible, found in a
Mass migration an unwelcome fact of life Read More »
International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAReport: Hezbollah enlisting Palestinian operatives to carry out attacks (JNS.org) Hezbollah is working to enlist Palestinian operatives from Fatah’s Al Aksa Brigades to carry out attacks against Israeli targets in Judea and Samaria as well as inside of Israel proper, a Palestinian security source said. A Palestinian security source told the Saudi daily newspaper
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By Donald H. Harrison MORAGA, California –Prof. Barbara McGraw of Saint Mary’s College of California likes to tell of an interfaith conference she attended at which delegates representing a wide spectrum of religious beliefs all were in attendance. As was the custom at such gatherings, people in the audience asking questions first would identify
Catholic college fosters religious pluralism Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWWII-era Jewish café reopens in Shanghai (JNS.org) A café that was a popular spot for Jewish refugees in Shanghai during World War II has been rebuilt and reopened in the city’s Hongkou district. The Zum Weissen Rossi’l café, better known as the White Horse Café, first opened in 1939. On hand for the reopening
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International, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — In an editorial for the San Diego Union-Tribune, Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-San Diego), announced her support for the Iran nuclear agreement. Excerpts from the editorial are below. You can read the full editorial here. “…I am convinced that after an extensive number of discussions and reviewing materials, the Iran nuclear agreement
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — August 28 will mark the 52nd anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s unforgettable ‘I Have A Dream’ preachment—the culmination of the 1963 March on Washington. Ironically, the date will also mark the 60th anniversary of the brutal murder of Emmett Till, on August 28, 1955—an appalling vigilante crime
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