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Obama’s Middle Eastern guest list raises questions

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The list of famous people President Obama has invited to the White House is something most of us would find surprising, amusing, and even outrageous. He has on occasions invited Gangsta Rappers like the rap artist named Common, whose poetical lyrics extols the virtues of cannibalism,

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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USA

God may watch over us; the government shouldn’t

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Most rabbinical students attribute omnipresence and omniscience as qualities befitting a Creator. Only God is called, “The Knower of Thoughts,” and “The Searcher of the human heart.” Rabbinical wisdom has long taught, “Always keep in mind these three things, and you will never come to the

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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USA

Time to fight the online hate epidemic

 By Abraham H. Foxman and Christopher Wolf NEW YORK — Several women’s advocates recently put the spotlight on misogynistic postings to Facebook promoting and celebrating violent attacks on women.  As a result of their pressure on advertisers and others, Facebook eventually responded — admitting it could do better in policing online hate and outlining a

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The tortured soul of Bobby Kennedy

By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California–Robert F. Kennedy, 42, was shot several times in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel just before midnight on June 4, 1968. He had just won California Democratic presidential primary and seemed destined for the nomination. He lingered through the next day but wounds proved fatal and he died early

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Immigrants must be better vetted for terrorist links

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Parties on various sides of the immigration debate in the United State have focused mainly on issues surrounding Hispanic immigrants because there are a lot of them and numbers get attention. Human Rights Watch, for example, created a handy-dandy checklist for the Senate version of the immigration bill, including

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Shoshana Bryen, USA

Three scandals undermine Obama’s credibility

By Isaac Yetiv,  Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — On May 13, 2013, the miracle occurred: all media exploded , denouncing another”avalanche of scandals”  in the Obama administration. It was a triple whammy, affecting three cabinet departments, (State, Treasury, and Justice), a perfect trifecta. The media which, shamelessly, kept silent for eight months after the Benghazi

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