By Arkady Mamaysky TARRYTOWN, N.Y. — Two major and roughly equal-sized branches of the Jewish people live in Israel and the United States. We are separated by distance and diverging more and more by culture. In other words, we are gradually becoming (or have already become) two different people. This is a very unfortunate […]
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USABy Alan Elsner WASHINGTON, D.C – Over the past few decades, a strange affliction has seized the American Jewish community. As part of a people who pride themselves on questioning everything, debating everything and taking nothing at face value, we have suddenly become speechless when it comes to Israel. Many of our leaders regard it
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USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Stipulating that foreign aid can be an important part of American foreign policy, and further that trade is an important component of U.S. foreign policy; Secretary of State John Kerry made two really important mistakes in his maiden speech, delivered to a fawning audience of American University students.
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Shoshana Bryen, USABy Joel A. Moskowitz, MD LA JOLLA, California — The father of JFK and Bobby and Ted Kennedy was intimately involved in the world events leading up to World War II. And David Nasaw’s book The Patriarch: The remarkable life and turbulent times of Joseph Patrick Kennedy tells it all. Published by Penguin Press this
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California –The first thing to understand is that this annual rite —a source of pride and curriculum opportunities for a lot of folks—is not confined to this country. It is also observed in Canada and the United Kingdom and it is ultimately about commemorating edifying milestones, events, and icons of
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USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Watching the State of the Union address and the Republican response, perhaps many of us took it for granted that President Barack Obama and Senator Marco Rubio represent the fulfillment of a dream that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King had only 50 years ago that someday people would be
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Donald H. Harrison, USABy Peter Huessy WASHINGTON, D.C. –Since the end of the Cold War, every U.S. administration made deterring, preventing, or eliminating the threat of nuclear terrorism a top priority. Americans are rightly worried that a terror sponsoring state such as Iran or North Korea, in cooperation with a terrorist group, might seek to detonate a nuclear
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USABy Beth Kissileff/JNS.org On Yom Kippur, Sept. 26, 2012, Sami Rahamim was with his father Reuven at Beth El Synagogue in St. Louis Park, Minn. On Feb. 4, 2013, 17-year-old Sami opened a roundtable discussion at the Minneapolis Police Department Special Operations Center meeting with President Barack Obama. In between? Reuven Rahamim was shot the
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USABy Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — I often ask myself how can a president with this record on economy and national security get reelected. The legitimate enthusiasm of good people witnessing a Black person become president of the US can provide an explanation for the first election in 2008. The second one should
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USABy Shoshana Bryen, Matthew R.J. Brodsky and Michael Johnson WASHINGTON, D.C. — According to testimony Thursday to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta spoke with President Obama at the outset of the Benghazi attack during a pre-scheduled meeting, but not again until the attacks were over. Panetta and Chairman of the Joint
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Shoshana Bryen, USABy Isaac Yetiv, Ph. D. LA JOLLA, California — In his second inaugural address, President Obama presented his program for the “transformation of America.” It reads like a “socialist manifesto” enunciated with the tacit assumption that he will rule, unchallenged, to re-create a new US of A in his own image, far different from the
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USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — The news that the US Postal Service, so stricken with economic trouble and hyper-commitment to its pension structure, is phasing out Saturday mail delivery brings a sweeter memory to mind. When my father died suddenly in 1976, a young and unknown Jimmy Carter was quietly walking across
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (JNS.org) — White House officials said Tuesday that President Barack Obama, whose relationship with Israel routinely garners attention due to his reported tension with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, plans to visit the Jewish state this spring. A specific date for Obama’s trip, which will also include Jordan, was not announced. “The start of the
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USAWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)– The Women’s Leadership Network of the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) on Monday, Feb. 4, urged NJDC’s members to call their members of Congress and urge “bold” and “courageous” actions to pass gun control legislation and end the epidemic of gun violence. “Last week, NJDC’s good friend former Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) urged
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