By Stephen M. Flatow/JNS.org “There was nothing new in it.” With those six words, President Barack Obama tried to dismiss the significance of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress on March 3. But there was, in fact, something very new and very important in the speech—something which Mr. Obama understandably wants to keep out […]
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Middle East, USA
PARIS (Press Release) – World Jewish Congress CEO Robert Singer met on Tuesday, March 3, with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Director-General Irina Bokova in Paris to discuss the importance of addressing anti-Semitism through UNESCO and building a stronger partnership between the two organizations. The meeting followed Bokova’s recent veto of the inclusion of
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International, Middle East
By U.S. Reps Peter Roskam, Lee Zeldin, Doug Lamborn and Leonard Lance WASHINGTON, D.C. — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered a thoughtful and urgent message to the world community through the bully pulpit of the House Chamber: Israel, the United States and global forces for peace can find a solution to Iran’s march toward a
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Middle East, USA
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit)– While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu referenced several cultural, political, and historical figures throughout his highly-anticipated speech to Congress on Tuesday March 3 – including Harry S. Truman, Queen Esther, Robert Frost, and Elie Wiesel – he concluded his historical address with the biblical figure of the prophet Moses. The
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Middle East, USAIDF chief says Israel must meet maritime threats (JNS.org) The Israeli Naval Academy held its 130th graduation ceremony on Tuesday. Welcoming the new naval officers, Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot said the past few years “have seen the Middle East change in a way that mandated the IDF and its
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International, Middle East, USABy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — One of my mentors in the world of sci-fi literature is the famous SF novelist David Brin, who I first met a few years ago here at San Diego Jewish World (and who is the son of Herb Brin, the late publisher of the Jewish Heritage newspapers of
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The World We ShareBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Neither the President of the United States nor the New York Times found Netanyahu’s speech to the US Congress last Tuesday very original. Of course, it was naïve of them to expect it. The purpose of the Netanyahu spectacle in Washington wasn’t so much to solve the Iranian problem as to
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Middle East, USA
By Leah Golembesky SAN DIEGO — This morning via television coverage we witnessed a historic visit from the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he addressed a joint session in Congress. Despite the controversy over his address Netanyahu received a warm welcome from the office of the Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner and was escorted
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Middle East, USABy Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO–I’ve been on a self imposed sabbatical. I needed to take a break from writing for a couple of years. It’s not that I didn’t enjoy it, Rather, I just didn’t have the time to either write regularly or to create columns worthy of our readership. Most of us hit a
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego CountyBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Hans Christian Anderson’s famous parable, “The Emperor’s New Clothes” tells a story about two swindling weavers who promised to make an Emperor a new suit of clothes that is invisible to those who are unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent. After the swindlers present him
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Middle East, USA
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohi) issued the following statement after the address by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to a joint meeting of Congress “This was a speech the American people needed to hear, plain and simple. It addressed the gravity of the threats we face and why we cannot
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Middle East, USA
KFAR GILADI, Israel (Press Release) — Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin made the keynote address at the state memorial ceremony for Joseph Trumpeldor and the defenders of Tel-Hai on Monday, March 2, marking 95 years since they fell. The President laid a wreath at the foot of the ‘Roaring Lion’ monument in Kfar Giladi. Also participating in the
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Middle East
Editor’s Note: The U.S. State Department posted this column by Bernadette Meehan, a spokeswoman for the National Security Council, on Monday, March 2, a day before the speech of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to a join meeting of Congress. By Bernadette Meehan WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–Since Israel’s founding in 1948, the United States has
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — There are the beloved Five Scrolls in the Hebrew Scripture: including the cynical Ecclesiastes, the romantic Song of Songs, and the elegiac Lamentations. The remaining two, filled with momentous narrative, are named for heroic women: Ruth and Esther. Ruth was the consummate loyalist, paradigmatic convert to Judaism—a maternal
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