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People often jump to wrong conclusions during crises

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Just as a plane had left the gate at the Baltimore Airport for a flight to Chicago, one passenger saw a “Middle Eastern looking” woman looking at a video that appeared to be associated with the Islamic State. The alert passenger told an attendant, the plane returned to the gate,

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Diplomats pay tribute to French terror victims

By Kenneth Bandler NEW YORK —  Diplomats, elected officials, interfaith and intergroup partners, and American Jewish Committee (AJC) leaders gathered at AJC headquarters Wednesday evening, Nov. 18, to pay tribute to the victims of last Friday’s ISIS terror attacks in Paris, to express solidarity with France, to recommit to the shared values of democracy and freedom, and to

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An appeal to readers in the Slovak Republic

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Among the subscribers to San Diego Jewish World are a few readers in the Slovak Republic.  I would like to address this article to them, as well as to anyone else who might be able to throw light upon the subject of Judge Jacob Weinberger’s early life. Weinberger’s name

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, San Diego County, USA

Obama, leftists, blind themselves to jihadist threat

By Ira Sharkansky   JERUSALEM — A confluence of events is pointing to the intellectual and political flabbiness at the upper reaches of American government and academies, and suggesting that there isn’t much left to the American generation. If we thought of ourselves as dependent on American leadership, we’re  pretty much left to ourselves in

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Call the enemy by its right name — Radical Islam

 “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, thinking it will eat him last.”–Sir Winston Churchill By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement policy is well known. The crocodile Churchill is referring to is Adolf Hitler. For decades, Europe had no problem sacrificing Israel to the

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Polled Muslims show sympathy for religious killings

By Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — France now has its own “9/11,” joining the UK (7/7/05), Spain (3/11/04) and Mumbai (26/11/08). It’s about time for Europe, as well as America, to face the fact that what’s going on is a religious war, a Western war against Muslims who are “radical,” if you prefer to

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Israeli – local pacts proposed for water, cyber security

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – If you want to bring a gleam to the eyes of David Siegel, Israel’s Consul General based in Los Angeles, ask him about the prospects for high-tech cooperation in the fields of water management and cyber-security between Israel and various American cities and states. During an interview Thursday,

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County, USA

U.N. event rues ‘Zionism is racism’ resolution

By Kenneth Bandler NEW YORK —  The American Jewish Committee, together with the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations and the Chaim Herzog Public Council, sponsored a major event at the UN on Wednesday, Nov. 11, marking the 40th anniversary of the historic speech by Israeli Ambassador to the UN Chaim Herzog’s denouncing the

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