By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, as American “doughboys” were being deployed to Europe in the closing frames of World War I. His gilded childhood and adolescence were shaped by his family-bred athleticism, the fervent paternalism of his father, Joseph P. Kennedy (the deeply-flawed US […]
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USASAN DIEGO (Press Release)– The Jewish Federation of San Diego County has launched a relief fund to gather aid for the victims of the devastating tornado that tore through the Oklahoma City area this week, killing and injuring many people and leaving a wide path of destruction. One hundred percent of funds donated will go
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By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — History is back and so are the Russians. After an interregnum of twenty years, during which the communist Soviet Union was demolished and a crony capitalist, Russian kleptocracy turned inward to establish firm control of journalists (oh wait, that might have been the Obama Administration), civil society practitioners including
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By Norman Greene SAN DIEGO — I’ll admit to it. I’m a “Broadway Baby.” Ever since seeing The Pajama Game, directed by Abe Burrows and Jerome Robbins on the Great White Way, at the age of ten, the Broadway musical theater has been a passion of mine. However, aside from the glamour, the music, the
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California –When the news came recently from Memphis that Maxine Smith had died—just a few days after my own biological, if enigmatic mother had passed—I understood what the loss of maternal wisdom and joy really does to a son. This Mother’s Day is my bittersweet day of mourning for the
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By Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Like all crimes, acts of Islamist terrorism have their MOM (Motivation, Opportunity, Means). They differ in that they are not motivated by greed, profit, vengeance, or mental dysfunction, but by religious fanaticism inculcated in the minds of the perpetrators through years of intense indoctrination that succeeds in making
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By Ilene Lerner BOSTON — I remember going to New York years ago and seeing Six Degrees of Separation, a play based on the assumption that all of us are separated by just six degrees. If I ever doubted it, I don’t any longer! The Boston Marathon bombing has taught me how connected we all
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent federal advisory body created by the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) to monitor religious freedom abuses abroad, on Tuesday, April 30, released its 2013 Annual Report. The Report highlights the status of religious freedom globally and identifies those governments that are the most egregious
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USANEW YORK (Press Release) — Ronald S. Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), strongly condemned an article by the special rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Richard A. Falk, in which he blames the terrorist attacks at the Boston Marathon earlier this month on Israel and on American foreign policy. In an
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USABy Michael Hayutin SAN DIEGO — I have immense admiration for the first responders and bystanders who ignored personal safety to aid the victims of the Boston Marathon horror show. I pray I would have similar courage. Now the task before every American official is to fully understand who nurtured two young jihadists and how
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USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C — The discovery that Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lived in the United States for a decade produced a spate of theorizing over “homegrown” terrorism and terrorists. Baseball, Google and iPhones are homegrown. There is nothing “homegrown” about Islamic terrorism, which is taught, bought and paid for by international sponsors, primarily
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Shoshana Bryen, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There has been enough already written about the Chechen brothers of Boston to fill a library, and it’s still coming. We’ll never know for sure what produced the decisions of those two young men, and whoever else may have been involved. We’ve already heard from the White House that the
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Ira Sharkansky, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Tarnaev brothers were cruelly successful, but they are far from the only terrorists over the past decade with big ideas about carnage in America. There is a temptation with each act of terror to see it as isolated, connected to the mental state of the actor, but not
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Shoshana Bryen, USABy Jacob Kamaras/JNS.org The imam of a mosque that is managed by the Muslim Brotherhood-founded Muslim American Society (MAS) was initially invited to speak at Thursday’s interfaith service in Boston to honor the Boston Marathon attack’s victims, but that invitation was later rescinded by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s office, JNS.org has learned. The Islamic Society
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