By Rabbi Ben Kamin SACRAMENTO—It took a Holocaust video to compel the California State Assembly to a moral consensus. It was during one of our more recent visits to the state capitol that members of the Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice—a multi-cultural panel of activist clergy—discovered a genuine poignancy in the midst of the […]
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Congressman Bill Johnson, (R-Ohio), Wednesday announced that he is introducing legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives to place at the national World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. the prayer offered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the American people as U.S. troops were storming the beaches
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USATRENTON, New Jersey (Press Release) – The chief rabbi of Congregation Sharee Zion in Brooklyn, N.Y., was sentenced Wednesday to two years of probation for operating an illegal money remitting business, after admitting he accepted bank checks in exchange for checks in lesser amounts from a charity he operated and controlled, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Relase)—The U.S. Senate has unanimously approved the construction of a long-overdue memorial in Arlington National Cemetery for Jewish Chaplains who have died on the battlefield. The Senate’s authorization comes on the heels of approval by the U.S. House of Representatives and brings the memorial one step closer to construction. Members of Congress heralded
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USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — It’s hard not to choke back tears while watching the Changing of the Guard ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery. I catch my breath short at even the smallest military or naval funeral I perform—particularly when a twenty-something boy or girl in a
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USABROOKLYN, New York (Press Release) – Following a four-week jury trial, Kareem Ibrahim was convicted Thursday in the Eastern District of New York of conspiring to attack John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York, by exploding fuel tanks and the fuel pipeline under the airport. The defendant believed the attack would cause extensive damage
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By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — There is a small detail at the end of Obama’s big Middle East speech that everyone has overlooked up until now but which shows how inept this administration is at understanding the Israel-Palestinian issue and why it continually makes Israel mistrustful. In doing his balancing act on Israeli and
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Responses are all over the map to Barack Obama’s highly touted speech on the Middle East and North Africa. Take your pick: from indifference to despair, excitement and anger. There was enough in it for everyone. The mention of 1967 borders brought one of Benyamin Netanyahu’s instant responses, described as “icy” by
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By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Most of the media focus of the President’s speech appears to be on his belief that Israel should shrink to the 1967 borders – with minimal land swaps – and should make that deal even before discussing the status of Jerusalem (the capital of the Jewish people and never
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USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the Arab Spring slides into summer, with all its emerging difficulties, President Obama plans to address the region. What can he say in the middle of a process that surely will have starts and stops, forward motion and regression? How can he help in the name of the
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By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California–My tailor grandfather taught me the difference between being a Jew and being honored. When I was a little boy, holding my grandfather’s hand as we exited the synagogue, all the well-dressed people were walking around a disheveled, crying man at the bottom of the steps. My grandfather immediately went up
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. — Representatives Howard L. Berman (D-CA), Trent Franks (R-AZ), Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) and Robert J. Dold (R-IL) on Monday led a bi-partisan letter signed by 64 Members of Congress urging the House Judiciary Committee to swiftly reauthorize the “Lautenberg Amendment,” which is a lifeline for historically persecuted minorities escaping to seek refuge
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USABy Roz Rothstein and Roberta P. Seid, PhD IRVINE, California — Here we go again. It’s spring, and for the Muslim Student Union (MSU) at UC Irvine (UCI), spring means it’s time for the MSU’s annual weeklong propaganda parade of hate programs against Israel and calls for punishing it with boycotts and divestment. Forget the
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“We are only 6% of the world population. We cannot impose our will on the other 94%. We cannot right every wrong, reverse each adversity…We cannot be the American solution to every world problem.” —John F. Kennedy “We have no commission from God to police the world.”—Benjamin Harrison By Isaac Yetiv LA JOLLA, California — “In foreign affairs,” De
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