WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Upon the news of the death August 4 of former White House Press Secretary James Brady, Rachel Laser, Deputy Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, issued the following statement: “We mourn the loss of James Brady, who served his country as White House Press Secretary and later […]
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-Sixteenth in a Series– By Donald H. Harrison BROWNING, Montana – More than half-way between our previous night’s stop in Lethbridge, Alberta, and our evening’s destination of Kalispell, Montana, grandson Shor and I decided to stretch our legs in Browning, Montana, which is located on the sprawling Blackfeet Indian Reservation. We browsed the Blackfeet
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Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food, USA
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA)– On the heels of announcing a national pro-Israel ad campaign, Christians United for Israel (CUFI), the largest pro-Israel organization in the US, announced Monday, August 4, that the group is taking 51 pastors – one from each state and the District of Columbia – to Israel for a four-day solidarity
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki on Sunday, August 3, issued the following denunciation of Israel: “The United States is appalled by today’s disgraceful shelling outside an UNRWA school in Rafah sheltering some 3,000 displaced persons, in which at least ten more Palestinian civilians were tragically killed. The coordinates of
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release) — The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is urging Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his government to end immediately their incendiary statements against Israel, which have led to attacks on the Jewish community. The climate of fear experienced by Venezuela’s Jewish community over the past decade has been heightened still further since
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International, Middle East, USABy Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON — As an example of what the insightful commentator Melanie Phillips referred to as a “dialogue of the demented” in her book, The World Turned Upside Down, since Israel launched Operation Protective Edge some three weeks ago, the streets of American and European cities have been crammed with activists
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International, Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, USA
NEW YORK (Press Releases) — World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder on Friday, August 1, condemned in the strongest possible terms the apparent kidnapping of an Israeli soldier in the Gaza Strip and urged Jews worldwide to pray for his safe return. The IDF suspects Second Lt. Hadar Goldin of Kfar Saba was seized
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release) — Leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Robert G. Sugarman, Chairman, and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman, on Friday, August 1, lauded the Senate leaders and the Administration for the passage of the supplemental funding for the Iron Dome missile defense system which has saved countless
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LOS ANGELES (Press Release)—NA’AMAT has sent more than $100,000 to its sister organization in Israel to support caregivers in its 233 Day Care Centers serving 18,000 children there, Elizabeth Raider, National President, NA’AMAT USA, announced Friday, August 1. “Our NA’AMAT day care centers are operational only if they have suitable ‘safe rooms’, and the required
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-Fourteenth in a series- By Donald H. Harrison GREAT FALLS, Montana – There are numerous eye-catching exhibits at the Lewis & Clark National Historic Interpretive Center here, including a life-size display showing how the early 19th century American explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark had to drag their boats around the five cascades of Great
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Donald H. Harrison, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Political analysis is best with moderation. Objectivity is not in the cards, insofar as information is partial and bound to be partisan. It helps to recognize differences in perspective. Extreme partisanship might win applause in some circles, but invites ridicule in others. Also important is to recognize sources of power,
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Isaac Yetiv, PhD LA JOLLA, California–Samuel Huntington correctly defined the bloody conflicts of our time as a “clash of civilizations.” But all “clashes” are not equal: there are the intra-Arab and intra-Muslim clashes and there are clashes where one side is a Western Democracy. What distinguishes between them is that the former’s actions and exactions, however cruel
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International, Middle East, USABy David Amos SAN DIEGO — What could be a greater pleasure than another visit to a favorite destination? It is to be there with someone who is there for the first time. This was the joyous occasion when we visited New York City together with our recently Bar-Mitzvah’d grandson, Zander. This gave us the
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USANature’s God, The Heretical Origins of the American Republic by Matthew Stewart, Norton & Co., New York; ISBN 978-0-393-06454-4 ©2014, $28.95, p. 435, plus Notes and Index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — When I first read the title of Matthew Stewart’s newest book, Nature’s God, The Heretical Origins of the American Republic, I
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