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Foxman looks back on 50 years with the ADL

July 6, 2015

NEW YORK — Looking back after 50 years of service to the Anti-Defamation League, retiring national director Abraham Foxman expressed passionate worry to journalist Edwin Black about the safety and security of Jews overseas and Israel’s position in the world. Excerpts from his exit interview follow, edited and condensed for continuity, clarity, and length. Edwin […]

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Edwin Black, International, Middle East, USA

Hurting ourselves in the name of ‘humanity’

July 6, 2015

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Roads to hell. We know they’re paved with good intentions. Jews wanting to improve things for themselves and others have been as guilty as anyone. The latest example is Jews, including some Israelis, who participate in BDS for the sake of humanity as they see it. We’ve been paving those

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Ira Sharkansky, Jewish Religion, Middle East

Obama presidency has harmed Israel

July 6, 2015

By Morton Klein and Daniel Mandel NEW YORK — Few seem to have noticed that President Barack Obama has scattered to the winds bipartisan Israeli reservations regarding establishing a Palestinian state. In a recent interview on Israel Television Channel 2, President Obama was quizzed on his public rejection of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s re-election

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Middle East, USA

Defining campus anti- Semitism

July 6, 2015

By Kenneth L. Marcus/JNS.org WASHINGTON, D.C. — Does it matter how we define our words? Sometimes it does. The U.S. Department of Education understands this point, as do the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Universities need to learn it, too. Last year, the Education Department paid CDC to develop a uniform definition of

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Jewish news briefs: July 6, 2015

July 6, 2015

Nearly half of U.S. Democrats believe Israel is a ‘racist’ country, survey finds (JNS.org) Nearly half of U.S. Democrats—47 percent—believe Israel is a “racist” country, while only 13 percent of Republicans agree with the same statement, according to a new survey conducted by pollster Frank Luntz. The survey, whose results were first reported by the

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International, Middle East, USA

Jewish Trivia: Same-sex marriages

July 6, 2015

By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York –As New York’s Gay Pride Parade celebrated the Supreme Court decision on same sex marriage, many groups attended the parade in support or in protest. What was unusual about the Jewish Political Action Committee, whose members were at the parade? This organization is a gay Orthodox group that was

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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Trump slanders Mexicans in racist rant

July 6, 2015

By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — There is a published report that Tywanza Sanders, who was a 26-year-old member of ‘Mother Emanuel’ Church in Charleston, made a plea to the “alleged” killer of nine African Americans studying scripture that day. Sanders purportedly begged the assailant to spare the lives of the people in the

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USA

The Jewish singers: Drake

July 5, 2015

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Travel and Food

Orthodox out- maneuver Reform in Israeli politics

July 5, 2015

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — The collusion between secular Israelis and extreme Orthodoxy has a long and ignominious history. The mixture of cynical indifference and a seemingly visceral belief that authentic Judaism must be Orthodox continues to dominate the political realm in the land. To repeat the old adage: Many Israelis insist that the synagogue

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Jewish Religion, Middle East

The Jewish singers: David Draiman

July 4, 2015

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Travel and Food

SDJW thanks June, early July contributors

July 4, 2015

SAN DIEGO (SDJW)—San Diego Jewish World acknowledges and thanks those writers whose bylines and photo credit lines appeared during the month of June and the first few days of July on its website. They included: David Amos Stephen Hazan Arnoff Laurie Baron David Bedein Edwin Black Dan Bloom Shoshana Bryen Stephen Bryen Garry Fabian Donald

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Barry Shaw, Donald H. Harrison, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Edwin Black, Eileen Wingard, Eric George Tauber, Eva Trieger, Fred Reiss, EdD, Ira Sharkansky, Lawrence Baron, Mark D. Zimmerman, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Michael Ordman, Mimi Pollack, Natasha Josefowitz, Sheryl Rowling, Shor M. Masori, Shoshana Bryen, Steve Kramer

Book review: ‘Rule of Capture’

July 4, 2015

Rule of Capture by Ona Russell, Sunstone Press, © 2015, 336 pages, ISBN 978-1-63293-047-7. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—This is the third novel by Ona Russell featuring a Jewish, mystery-solving probate officer from Ohio named Sarah Kaufman, who can sense crime and cover-up but admittedly has flawed judgment when it comes to the men she

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Donald H. Harrison

Israel between two Arab wars

July 4, 2015

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Israel has long been described as the one democracy in the Middle East. It remains that, no matter how critics try to twist policies they do not like into a condemnation of the process that created them. Now it’s also an island of relative calm between two serious wars that

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

The Jewish singers: David D’Or

July 3, 2015

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Travel and Food