By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — God help our Veterans. Yes, this is the day originally termed “Armistice Day,” November 11, 1918—when the Great War (World War I) ended. Many saw that horrifically bloody conflict (The United States entered in the final year, 1917, but our “doughboys” were bludgeoned in ditches like the Europeans […]
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By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — A few years ago, when I was writing with a different hat, the Band of Brothers USMC Motorcycle Riding Club provided me with a list of companies providing free and discounted services to American military veterans in honor of Veteran’s Day. I wrote at the time: • Veterans Day
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Shoshana Bryen, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) –Two leading Washington-area rabbis have added their names to a growing list of clergy who are calling for D.C.’s NFL team to stop using the R-word in its team name. In recent months, religious leaders from a number of different faith communities have united in their opposition to the name, which
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USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — On November 4, 1963, a still-emerging quartet from Liverpool played a key engagement: The Beatles gave a concert for the Royal Family in London. In fact, the event was a Royal Command Performance at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London, in the presence of both the Queen
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–America’s loss of dominance was inevitable. Its standing from the late ’40s through the ’50s could not last. The power derived from being the sole country on its feet after the most destructive war in history. The American economy thrived as a result of pent-up purchasing power from war-time full employment, the
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Ira Sharkansky, USABy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Many baseball fans I know have grown up and relished the great baseball rivalries of the last fifty years or more. As a native San Franciscan, who could forget the rivalries involving the Giants and the Dodgers—Northern vs. Southern California? Indeed, today’s latest incarnations of the
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USABy Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D LA JOLLA, California — The world is in a tohu-bohu, in dangerous confusion, and the US Congress and the US president are politicking and shutting the government. Our enemies are regaining confidence and power over the greatest country on earth, now in their eyes “a paper tiger,” that inspires no fear
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USANEW YORK (Press Release) — American Jews are generally pessimistic about current political developments across the Middle East, notably the “Arab Spring,” Iran’s nuclear program and Arab intentions regarding Israel. The skepticism is reflected in the just-completed AJC 2013 Survey of American Jewish Opinion. Full survey is available at www.ajc.org. The AJC survey, conducted annually,
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USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO –Reuters has reported it with succinct and agonizing words: “The demolition of Newtown, Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20 young children and six adults were shot to death last December, will begin on Friday under a cloak of secrecy meant to discourage souvenir-hunters, town officials said.” There can
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USABy Arkady Mamaysky TARRYTOWN, N.Y. — The war in Iraq is over. After all of the American sacrifices, and despite the hope for a peaceful and democratic Iraq, sectarian killing of innocent people has become a frequent and sadly familiar issue in the news. Recent history presents the following lesson: When a dictatorship falls, different
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Arkady Mamaysky, International, Middle East, USABy Jeffrey E. Levine NEW YORK — I want to take a moment and introduce myself to all of you as I take on the role as President of Jewish National Fund. Evidently, it was my destiny to become President of Jewish National Fund one day, given that I was born on a street called
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USABy Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Gertrude Bell, the most famous British political writer about the Arab World in early 20th century, often wrote that “the Arabs cannot govern themselves.” If only she could see the American government now, one century later, in its splendid paralysis ! The alarming circus-like spectacle in Washington and the
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USASAN FRANCISCO (Press Release)—The Helen Diller Family Foundation is now accepting nominations for the 2014 Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards, an awards program that recognizes up to 10 Jewish teens with $36,000 each for exceptional leadership and visionary actions that are helping to repair the world. Up to five teens from California and five from
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USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — As he waited in the wings at the United Nations, President Obama was struck with this sledgehammer from Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff: Tampering… in the affairs of other countries is a breach of international law and is an affront of the principles that must guide the relations among them,
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