Judaism

Oslo Accords debated, rather than celebrated, on 20th anniversary

By Alex Traiman/JNS.org Twenty years after the signing of the fateful Oslo Accords between Palestinian Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, Knesset Members are heavily debating the merits of the peace process and the two-state solution paradigm. Parliamentarians from both Israel’s left and the right agree that the process has […]

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Jewish History

Jewish Citizen: Kerry on Palestinians, AJC on Syria

State Department acquiesces to ‘blame Israel’  ploy PARIS (Press Release) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hosted a meeting in Paris on Sunday with a Ministerial Delegation assigned by the Arab League’s Peace Initiative Committee. The delegation included Ministers of Foreign Affairs and permanent representatives of Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Palestine, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi

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Jewish History

Jewish Citizen: GOP, Jewish organizations line up on Syria

National News House Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Virginia) announced their backing for President’s Obama to use military force against Syria in retaliation for using chemical weapons.  Cantor said the U.S. should take the action to prevent further use of weapons of mass destruction such as sarin gas. The Senate Foreign

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History

The Jewish Citizen: The pending debate on Syria

National News THE HOUSE DEBATE OVER SYRIA — U.S. Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., favors an American strike against Syria in retaliation against its use of chemical weapons on its own citizenry.  “I’m a yes,” he was quoted as saying by NBC. Many other Jewish House members were more nuanced. U.S. Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) pronounced

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History

The Jewish Citizen: Some Jewish statistics from Congress

SAN DIEGO– Over the Labor Day 2013 break, here are some statistics to ponder. There are 11 Jews in the 100-member U.S. Senate. Dianne Feinstein (D-California) at age 80, is the oldest member of the Senate Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), half her age at 40, is the second-youngest U.S. Senator.  (The very youngest senator is Chris

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History

Time for Filner, Weiner and us to do teshuvah

By Rabbi Michael Berk SAN DIEGO — The lurid allegations of politicians acting badly overcame the usual summer lull in news this season. Mayor Bob Filner and Anthony Weiner spent much of the summer trying to survive politically. But what about spiritual survival? What does their common faith, Judaism, teach about sin, atonement and forgiveness?

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