By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — Tomorrow—Good Friday, April 18—is the funeral date for a grandfather and his grandson murdered this past week at the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park, Kansas, allegedly by a neo-Nazi Klansman. The service will be held at the Methodist Church of the Resurrection in nearby Leawood . A […]
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USAUNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (Press Release) — Ambassador Samantha Power, the U.S. permanent representatitve to the United Nations, said on Wednesday, April 16, that the world must do more to stop mass killings and atrocities in Syria. At a Security Council briefing on the prevention and fight against genocide, she described as “devastating” crimes against
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Middle East, USA
BOSTON (Press Release) –President Obama’s assistant for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, Lisa Monaco, told a forum at Harvard’s Kennedy School that to prevent terrorism families and communities must be aware and ready to intervene when someone’s behavior lurches towards violence. Following is a partial text of her speech, delivered Tuesday, April 15: * “We’ve faced
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–U.S President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry were among the public officials who have sent Passover greetings to the Jewish community. President Obama said in a statement: “Michelle and I send our warmest greetings to all those celebrating Passover in the United States, in Israel, and around the world.
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San Diego Jewish World news roundup There were new developments and more responses Monday to the killing of three people at Jewish institutions in the Kansas City suburbs on Sunday and to the suspect calling out “Heil Hitler” to reporters after being taken into custody. Fox News reported that the woman shot in the parking
NEW YORK (Press Release)–The shooter arrested in the killing of three individuals outside the Jewish institutions in Overland Park, Kansas is a white supremacist with a long history of promoting anti-Semitism and racism, according to a backgrounder released by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The suspect, identified by police as Frazier Cross, but who is also
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USABy Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi WASHINGTON, D.C. — Yesterday (April 13) in a Kansas City suburb, in a horrible hate crime, a man yelled “Heil Hitler” after murdering three innocent people because he saw them as “the other.” My prayers are with the victims and their families. Hitler didn’t “just” kill Jews — he was a mass murderer
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Two issues are at the roiling stage, and threatening the capacity of Barack Obama to run the world by means of his political wisdom and the aides he sends forth to do his work. Ukraine and Israel-Palestine are much different in the nature and what they threaten. Israel and Palestine are on
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-Compiled from news reports- OVERLAND PARK, Kansas – A gunman opened fire in the parking lot of the Jewish Community Center in this Kansas City suburb, killing a man and his teenage grandson as they sat in their car on Sunday afternoon, April 12. A short while later, in the parking lot of Village
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USABy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — One of the most important feminists fighting for women’s rights in the Islamic world is a woman named Ayaan Hirsi Ali. This remarkable woman was born in Somalia where she was raised as a Muslim. She spent her youth and young adulthood in Africa and Saudi
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel –Returning from a four-week jaunt across the USA in which we visited six cities and met countless relatives and friends – both old and new – it took no time at all to get used to the pace of life in Israel. That may be due in part to
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, USA
WAHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry released the following statement following the announcement that Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns will retire later this year: “It is hard to find words adequate to express who Bill Burns is, and what he means not just to the State Department, but to American foreign
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) –The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations lauded the announcement by White House spokesman, Jay Carney, that a visa to enter the US will not be issued to the proposed Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations, Hamid Abutalebi, who was involved in the 1979 takeover of the American Embassy
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Middle East, USA
WASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release). — In a list of intended nominations, U.S. President Barack Obama said he plans to appoint Rabbi Lee T. Bycel of Napa, California, as a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. The White House website provided the following biographical information about Rabbi Bycel: “Rabbi Lee T. Bycel is Rabbi
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