By Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D JERUSALEM — He’s 79, eligible for residence in our retirement village. But still active. A resident of Delaware, and a U.S. senator then vice president since 1973. Israeli politicians are claiming that he’s visited Israel more times than any other president, but that may reflect little more than his long service […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, Opinion, USA
By Shoshana Bryen (JNS) Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh died covering an Israeli counter-terror operation on the West Bank. That this was a tragedy is the only thing clear about her death. Various media outlets—some reasonably unbiased and some not—mounted “investigations.” Private companies, including a Dutch-based consortium, did their own. Politicians with an ax to grind
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Middle East, Opinion, Shoshana Bryen, USA
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — What kind of people do we want as our leaders? Is it unreasonable to expect the individuals who govern our country and determine our fate, at least to some extent, to be honest, righteous and upstanding? The sad reality seems to be that decent, honest individuals are not
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle East, Opinion, USA
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Omar Shakir should forget the popular refrain, “I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream.” He screameth way too loud when he declares the Ben & Jerry’s sale another grand victory for the Palestinians. It is one more humiliating loss that the Palestinians have suffered. It is
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Bruce Ticker, Middle East, Opinion, USA
By Eric George Tauber CINCINNATI, Ohio — My friend Maria has dyslexia, so reading and writing are more difficult for her than most. To make matters worse, Maria was raised in parochial school in the 1950s when dyslexia was not well-known and the nuns’ pedagogy was pretty much limited to rote memorization and corporal punishment.
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Eric George Tauber, Jewish Religion, Opinion, USA
By Sam Litvin SAN DIEGO — The July 4th killer was not shy about his hate. He planned the place and the time carefully, meticulously. He planned to get away with it. He visited a synagogue, he walked around the area, and ended up getting on a roof of a building and began shooting
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Opinion, Sam Litvin, USA
By Laurie Baron (Melody: God Bless America) In Memoriam to the Victims of Highland Park Guns kill Americans; we should expect Some who bear arms will inflict harms. With malice background checks detect. From the temples to the churches. To the markets and parades once secure. Guns kill Americans, easy for all to procure. Guns
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Lawrence Baron, Opinion, USA
By Steve Kramer KFAR SABA, Israel — The Palestinian Arabs resent the fact that the Saudis and other Gulf Arabs are becoming much closer with Israel, while only paying lip service to the “Palestinian cause.” Hence the Palestinian terrorists are continuing their fomenting of terror attacks against Israelis in an attempt to gain the West’s
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Middle East, Opinion, Steve Kramer, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The Supreme Court has rejected Roe v. Wade. Roe v. Wade occurred in 1973, and has served as the law of the land for almost 50 years. It was based on the 14th Amendment: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are
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Ira Sharkansky, Opinion, USA
By Doron Krakow Of late, I find myself thinking back on the meaningful ways I have marked America’s Independence Day over the years. At camp, barbecues and carnivals captured the spirit of America—while special pride was taken in the shared anniversary of Israel’s heroic rescue of the hostages taken aboard the hijacked Air France jet
By Jonathan S. Tobin (JNS) The organized Jewish community—whether local Jewish community relations councils or national groups like the Jewish Council on Public Affairs, the American Jewish Committee or the Anti-Defamation League—and the religious denominations say they’re committed to two positions. On the one hand, all of them purport to be strong supporters of social
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Opinion, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Perhaps John T. Earnest might have been stopped by our new gun safety law from murdering Lori Gilbert Kaye in Poway, but it seems that the law would not have prevented Al Aliwi Al-Issa from massacring 10 people in Boulder. Even Democratic leaders and the news media are heralding
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Bruce Ticker, Opinion, San Diego County, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Where’s the Israeli government? What happened? Was it more or less inevitable? It began with a government composed of eight parties: Yesh Atid (There is a Future), Blue and White, Israel Our Home, New Hope, Yamina (Right), Labor, Meretz, and Joint List (Arab). Except for Labor, Meretz, and the
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, OpinionBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Oh, no! Not another election, I cried when I heard the news on the radio. Once again, after enjoying an uplifting symphony concert we get into the car, turn the radio on to catch up on the day’s news and are hit with the devastating information that since
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Opinion