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Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage draw Jewish responses

-SDJW staff report- SAN DIEGO — The decision by President Barack Obama to throw his support behind same-sex marriages in the United States has prompted comment pro and con from various Jewish groups. The Orthodox Union pronounced itself “disappointed by (Wednesday, May 9)’s  statement by President Obama endorsing legal recognition of same sex marriage. Jewish law is […]

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U.S. Constitution’s 9th Amendment may become bulwark against an expanding federal government

By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California — With the enlargement of federal powers and intrusions into  individual’s lives, the 9th Amendment to the US Constitution, part of our Bill   Of Rights, may well gain more judicial attention.  The 9th Amendment should be elevated  to central prominence, as it was intended, in applying judgment of all federal  

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The case for a solid missile defense

  By Peter Huessy        WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, missile defense is under attack. This is not a new thing, however. Opponents tried to eliminate funding for ballistic missile defense when Ronald Reagan was President, sneeringly calling it “Star Wars” to denote how foolish they thought the idea to be. Under President Bill Clinton, defenses against

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U.S. reactions to North Korea inform Israel’s decisions about Iran

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Reading news reports can be like reading tea leaves. The combination of different items may mean more than any one of them says explicitly. Yet it is more art than craft. Conclusions may be sounder than received from a seer, but are less than certain. Currently my computer screen is

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U.S. should put conditions on its military aid to Egypt

By James Colbert WASHINGTON, D.C. –Providing the Egyptian military with unrestricted military assistance no longer serves American goals. While conditional aid is a relatively weak diplomatic tool, it is the only approach left to the United States to alter meaningfully Egypt’s negative trajectory that is propelled by an economy nearing collapse, ongoing human rights abuses,

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