The three co-chairs of “Rabbis for Obama” write that President Barack Obama’s values are Jewish values and American values, and that we need his values in the White House for four more years. Obama’s record, they write, reflects the embodiment of Jews’ deepest obligations: tikkun olam, tzedakah, shalom—to repair the world, to pursue justice, […]
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USAShould Americans who support Israel take President Barack Obama at his word when he says he is fully committed to the Jewish state? No, not when Israel confronts the threat of nuclear annihilation by Iran, writes philanthropist and casino magnate Sheldon G. Adelson. Time and again Obama has signaled a lack of sympathy—or even
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USALA JOLLA, California (Press Release)–“No incumbent has a particularly good debate,” observed Presidential campaign expert and UCSD Professor Sam Popkin. “However, you don’t turn an election around in one debate. Mitt Romney has the ball in his court. This is the time when people’s eyes were opened so he has to convince people he is
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USABy Jeffrey F. Barken/JNS.org In May of 1988, Maryland Governor William Donald Schaefer visited Israel to sign the historic Maryland-Israel Exchange agreement. The document listed financial incentives authorizing and supporting significant future collaborations between Israeli and American companies, benefiting both economies. Today, the Maryland/Israel Development Center (MIDC), the group responsible for organizing Schaefer’s initial visit,
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USABy Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org Many months of hard work by Democratic activists aiming to shore up Jewish support for U.S. President Barack Obama wasn’t undermined by arguments from his opponents. Instead, all it took was a cartoon drawing of a bomb. Despite the campaign waged by Jewish Republicans to draw attention to the antagonism between
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USANEW YORK (Press Release) — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized President Barack Obama for dispatching an extremist, anti-American, anti-Israeli Islamist, Salaam Al-Marayati, to speak overseas on behalf of the U.S. to a human rights conference Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Salaam Al-Marayati, the director of the Islamist Muslim
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–I was delighted with the first debate between President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Not because I think the debate held at the University of Denver on Wednesday evening, Oct. 3, will determine the outcome of the presidential election, but rather because I believe it set a
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By David Brin ENCINITAS, California –Who among us doesn’t yearn to ask questions at the presidential fora? Poking at both candidates, shaking the routine of canned talking points and practiced answers? Sure, I have a firm preference. But separately, How I wish that I could ask the following: 1) Mr. President and Governor Romney. There is
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USABy Gabriel Scheinmann WASHINGTON, D.C. — The world’s best-known secret has finally been revealed: the United States and Israel do not see eye-to-eye on Iran’s nuclear program. In an unusually public ping-pong, the Obama administration rebuffed an Israeli effort to clarify America’s Iranian “red lines,” the point at which it would agree that its
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USABy David Brin ENCINITAS, California At their convention, the Republicans chose their theme. The coordinated message from two-thirds of their speakers would be American Exceptionalism. Unable to gain leverage by using the economy – which is slowly but clearly recovering from their own train wreck depression – and with the GOP suffering from devastating credibility gaps
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USASAN DIEGO– Republicans are stepping up their political campaign in the Jewish community against President Barack Obama, saying he has been antagonistic to Israel in his first term and would be more so in a second term. Following is a video, “Perilous Times” released by the Republican Jewish Coalition. Another video called “Absolutely Uncertain: Obama,
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USABy Rafael Medoff/JNS.org The controversy over how to define the attack on the American consulate in Libya is not the first time the U.S. government has raised eyebrows by refusing to use the word “terrorism.” A similar dispute in 1989 sparked a major row between George H. W. Bush’s administration and Israel. American officials initially
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USABy David Brin ENCINITAS, California–Banned Books Week (September 30 – October 6) celebrates the freedom to read and to express ideas…even those that others might find objectionable. Classics that have been banned or challenged over the years include The Jungle, The Great Gatsby, The Grapes of Wrath, Beloved, Lolita, Clockwork Orange, Satanic Verses, I Know
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USAAt Adamah Farm in Connecticut and the Pearlstone Center’s farm in Maryland, activities are more “heimish” than Amish: growing, harvesting and enjoying pickles, vegetables and cheese with other Jews in an environmental, educational and spiritual setting. By Paul Foer/JNS.org FALLS VILLAGE, CONN.—Nadav Slovin cultivates the fields of potatoes and other crops in the rural Litchfield
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