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High Holy Days no time for election-year politics

August 27, 2012

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California —Last week, I received an email from the Reelect-elect Obama campaign. The President is urging rabbis to help re-elect the President. The email contained the following information and assertions: Obama for America today announced the launch of Rabbis for Obama, a campaign initiative to engage and mobilize grassroots […]

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Some good biblical advice about would-be leaders

August 25, 2012

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO –In this heady time of national decision, the Hebrew Scripture unhesitatingly calls for appropriate restraints on any king. It’s fair to say that the notion of “limited government” and “checks and balances” are not recent manifestations; they’re actually 3,000 years old and come straight out of Deuteronomy and, hopefully,

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Demands of U.S. Republicans, Palestinians go too far

August 23, 2012

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — If I’ve learned anything in a half-century of studying politics, it is that those who demand everything risk getting nothing. Currently there are two examples of major players who haven’t gotten that message. One is the Republican Party of the United States, which, according to reports, is likely to include

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Obama should explain how Iran endangers U.S. interests

August 21, 2012

By Shoshona Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –While noting in The Washington Post that Israel “cannot afford to outsource its security to another country,” Maj. Gen. (ret.) Amos Yadlin, former chief of Israeli Military Intelligence, contends that President Obama can/should frame “a nuclear-armed Iran as an impermissible threat to the national interests of the United States and its

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Whimsical Obama has quality often lacking: curiosity

August 20, 2012

By David Brin PASADENA, California — I write this from Pasadena, where I just finished a public evening (that will be podcast soon on the site of KPCC FM radio) discussing with USC Professor Paul Rosenbloom and the Planetary Society’s Mat Kaplan the future of artificial intelligence, uplifting dolphins, and good or bad types of

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Why shouldn’t voters see Romney’s tax returns?

August 17, 2012

By David Brin ENCINITAS, California –Mitt Willard Romney now informs us that he did pay taxes during the last ten years. Thus he attempts to staunch – despite his own refusal to provide proof in the form of tax returns – the assertion of critics like Democratic senator Harry Reid that Romney paid no taxes

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Clinton signals, but doesn’t make the turn

August 17, 2012

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called cavalierly for the people of Aleppo to rise up against the Assad regime. When they did — as when President Bush (41) called on the Shi’ites and Kurds of Iraq to rise up against Saddam in 1991 — the U.S. declined to support the rebels, and

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Democrats desperate to change subject from economy

August 15, 2012

By Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Even before the presidential debates, the lines separating the worldviews of the candidates present a sharp picture of clear distinctions; and that is good for the electorate and for democracy. The incumbent, President Obama, by his words and deeds, situated himself far to the left of mainstream

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Standard Chartered Branch, Deloite & Touche accused of conspiring with Iran

August 14, 2012

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Americans are jaded by the size and shape of the financial crisis that ripped through banking in 2008. Bernie Madoff, AIG, “too big to fail,” Goldman Sachs, subprime lending, unfathomable derivatives, and underwater mortgages make it hard to work up much steam on yet another banking story. And you could

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Partisan gridlock jeopardizes U.S. military readiness

August 13, 2012

By Morris J. Amitay WASHINGTON, D.C — The specter of the January 2, 2013 sequestration has created rare unanimity here in Washington. Just about everyone both in the defense establishment and Congress maintains it would have disastrous consequences if implemented. This new round of budget cuts was mandated by the U.S. Budget Control Act

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Attack on Sikh Temple stirs memories of Glen Falls

August 13, 2012

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The recent attack upon the Sikh Temple in Wisconsin dredged up some old memories I thought I had buried. My story began not long after 2001. At that time, I was a rabbi in Glens Falls, New York, when the incident occurred. After the terrible 9/11

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Attack on ANY religious group is an outrage

August 10, 2012

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO –I was appalled by one of the comments that I heard repeatedly in the wake of the murderous rampage at a Milwaukee Sikh temple last Sunday: the white supremacist shooter who attacked it probably mistook it for an Islamic house of worship. As if that is any kind of

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What color is terror?

August 7, 2012

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO –Some folks enjoy the easy, racially-tinged declaration, after viewing an African American man on the television news being indicted or sentenced for some gruesome crime: “Well, of course.” The assumption, the throw-away epithet, is simple, coarse, and poorly-informed. It is driven by the insipid racism of too many people

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Proposal to reduce U.S. nuclear force counter-productive

August 2, 2012

By Peter Huessy WASHINGTON, D.C. — A small group of nuclear abolitionists are pushing for the United States to dramatically reduce its nuclear weapons and eliminate the strategic nuclear triad, which for half a century has maintained the peace. Global Zero, which bills itself as an international movement for the elimination of all nuclear weapons

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High Holy Days no time for election-year politics

Some good biblical advice about would-be leaders

Demands of U.S. Republicans, Palestinians go too far

Obama should explain how Iran endangers U.S. interests

Whimsical Obama has quality often lacking: curiosity

Why shouldn’t voters see Romney’s tax returns?

Clinton signals, but doesn’t make the turn

Democrats desperate to change subject from economy

Standard Chartered Branch, Deloite & Touche accused of conspiring with Iran

Partisan gridlock jeopardizes U.S. military readiness

Attack on Sikh Temple stirs memories of Glen Falls

Attack on ANY religious group is an outrage

What color is terror?

Proposal to reduce U.S. nuclear force counter-productive

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