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By Christopher Ruddy NEW YORK–It’s a cold Friday night last December and I am at the reception desk to see former New York Mayor Ed Koch at New York Presbyterian Hospital. “Ed Koch please,” I ask the young African-American fellow serving as the receptionist. “You’re here to see Mayor Koch!” he says rather excitedly to […]

By Maxine Dovere/JNS.org  WASHINGTON, DC—Hundreds of pro-Israel Christians descended on Washington, DC, on Monday to raise heated voices against the confirmation of former Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense. The Action Fund of Christians United for Israel (CUFI) brought more than 400 Christian leaders, in addition to some rabbis, from 46 different states

By Isaac Yetiv , Ph. D. The rhetorical question in my last article has elicited many real questions from my readers who wanted to know what I meant by “ripe” in “Is American society ripe for Obama’s crowning?” I am glad to respond: No, I didn’t mean a coup d’etat with dissolution of Congress and

By Paul Greenberg LA JOLLA, California — Rabbi Gary Katz began the highly informative and well-received program, Breakfast With The Mob, that took place in the rehearsal room at the Lawrence Family JCC on Monday, January 21, with an hour-long power point presentation about Jewish gangsters, who operated what might literally be called “cut-throat businesses”

  By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — One can only welcome the Pentagon’s decision to tear down another fence barring female members of the Armed Forces from full participation in the security and defense of our nation. It’s not really about being more so in harm’s way—women have been wounded, maimed, or killed (300

NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Tuesday, Jan. 22, urged the United States Supreme Court to reject an Arizona law requiring would-be voters to provide proof of citizenship in order to register to vote. ADL has filed a brief, together with the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and the Leadership Conference on

Editor’s Note:  Here is the text of President Barack Obama’s second inaugural address, as provided by the White House press office.   THE PRESIDENT: Vice President Biden, Mr. Chief Justice, members of the United States Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens:   Each time we gather to inaugurate a President we bear witness to the

By Isaac Yetiv, PhD LA JOLLA, California —  They have done it again. Five hundred thirty seven elected officials in Washington and their thousands of aides, staff, lawyers, and lobbyists using tons of expensive modern equipment, could not produce, after months of bickering, mutual blaming and accusing, a just and lasting solution to the financial mess

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–We were told that Israel’s prime minister tried to interfere in the US presidential elections last year by siding with Mitt Romney against the victorious Barack Obama. The latter has now returned the compliment by seemingly interfering in the Israeli elections. That’s the received and probably correct interpretation of the comments

By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — Martin Luther King Jr. was born 84 years ago today, January 15, 1929. He was 39 years old when shot down at the Lorraine Motel, Memphis, 6:01 PM, Thursday, April 4, 1968.   In his short lifetime, King collected a cadre of loyal and fervent friends and colleagues.