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Has U.S. abandoned Marshall Islands as an ally?

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last week, U.S. ambassador to the UN Samantha Power testified to Congress that Israel couldn’t rely on the United States to veto anti-Israel resolutions in the U.N. Security Council, but she tried to soften the blow by saying, “We have a record of standing when it matters with Israel.”

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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA

Inter- religious invocations honor San Diego’s history

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Although invocations by Rabbi Michael Berk of Congregation Beth Israel and Monsignor Richard Duncanson of Mission San Diego de Alcala came in reverse chronological order as far as San Diego history was concerned, they were in correct historical order from the standpoint of world history. Jews were first on the

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County

California legislator: Congress needs a Jewish caucus

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The California state senator who heads the first-in-the-nation Jewish legislative caucus says it’s time for Jews in the U.S. Congress to form a caucus too, and adds that U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, the Florida congresswoman who chairs the national Democratic party, agrees with him “100 percent.” State Sen.

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, USA

Quickie plays absorb or bore viewers in a hurry

By Eva Trieger ENCINITAS, California —   Nicknamed the ADHD Festival by Director D.Candis Paule, the audience was warned, “If you don’t like what you’re watching, wait about three minutes and it’ll be over.”  She was of course referring to the 2nd Annual 5 Minute Short Play Festival.  About 125 people gathered at the Encinitas library

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Eva Trieger, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Does Israel’s security ‘matter’ to Obama?

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Samantha Power, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, says the U.S. will no longer automatically exercise its veto in the UN Security Council to protect Israel. In testimony before the Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, Power specifically declined to rule out support for resolutions on Palestinian

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA

Arming countries, then pulling out, recipe for disaster

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Forty years ago, Saigon fell to communist North Vietnam. Images of terrified South Vietnamese clambering to the roof of the U.S. embassy, and Vietnamese helicopter pilots ferrying them to ships and then pushing the helicopters overboard to make room for more refugees are still heart-wrenching. Vietnam represented a change in

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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA