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(Editor’s Note:  The following article by the leadership of the Zionist Organization of America questions the motives of J-Street.   San Diego Jewish World will make its pages available to J Street, should it desire, for a reply) By Morton A. Klein and Daniel Mandel NEW YORK — J Street describes itself as Zionist, pro-Israel, pro-peace and […]

By Peter Huessy        The United States is engaging in a major debate over the appropriate size of the Defense Department. At its heart are two issues. First, should we continue to reduce our military spending by roughly $947 billion over the next decade, as was agreed to in the Budget Control Act of 2011? Second,

By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENICNINTAS, California — On April 3, 1968, 45 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached the fear of death out of himself. Most people recall the oration as “The Mountaintop” speech; it came less than 24 hours before King’s assassination outside Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. It rained

  By Joel A Moskowitz MD LA JOLLA, California –With Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif), who is a member of the Jewish community, leading the congressional charge against assault weapons, is there a preponderance of support within the Jewish community for such controls? Feinstein introduced the Federal Assault Weapons Ban which became law in 1994, but

By David P. Goldman       The Obama administration has utterly failed to convince the world that it is serious when it says the U.S. would attack Iran if it does not halt its nuclear weapons program. Analysis of energy markets reveals that crude oil is trading today with no greater risk than stocks and currency. Even

By Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — In my previous writings, I repeatedly denounced the mainstream media “dereliction of duty,” their blind unconditional support for the president and his party, their selective reporting of the news, their self-imposed silence and even coverups of  Obama’s deficiencies, failures, and scandals. This silence, much akin to the “omerta” en

(JNS.org) A bipartisan letter signed by more than three-fourths of the U.S. Senate urged President Barack Obama to stand by Israel ahead of his trip to the Middle East. The letter, signed by 78 U.S. senators including U.S. Sen Barbara Boxer (D-Calif) and supported by the America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), asks Obama to “reaffirm

My debate with J Street’s Jeremy Ben-Ami By Roz Rothstein/JNS.org   On Monday evening, March 11, I had a public discussion with Jeremy Ben-Ami, founder and president of J Street, at Temple Isaiah in Los Angeles. The topics included how American Jews should approach pro-Israel advocacy, whether peace is currently attainable between Israel and Palestinian Authority

By Isaac Yetiv , Ph.D.  LA JOLLA, California — The announcement of President Obama’ trip to Israel (and the territories) has surprised many people both here and in Israel where it has been received with fear and apprehension. It is certainly not a leisure trip with sightseeing and enjoyment; nor is it a religious pilgrimage

By Joshua Sinai       WASHINGTON, D.C. –Conventional wisdom holds that the threat to America posed by al Qaeda and its affiliates is greatly diminished compared to 9/11. Today, it is claimed, al Qaeda is less well organized, with many of its top leaders eliminated, and is so broken into geographically disparate franchises that it

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — Can you imagine over 12,000 Jews and non-Jews gathered together in the same place for the same purpose? I would not have thought it possible, except I just returned from the AIPAC 2013 Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. and saw it myself. The last time I attended a Policy

By Michael Hayutin SAN DIEGO — Inflicting pain on oneself is a rather strange phenomenon. Most of us have read about or seen images of religious fanatics intentionally hurting themselves. There was a tradition among some in the Philippines to reenact the crucifixion each Easter. Young men would volunteer to have nails pounded through the