By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Vice-President Biden announced he will be out of the country when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses Congress. A growing number of Democratic senators are considering boycotting his speech too prompting ZOA to charge that this is just another manifestation of the BDS movement, Bibi’s Democratic Snub. * Brian Williams […]
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The world quickly forgets– almost with blazing light speed… Some of us have short memories and some of us have long memories. This writer in particular will not ignore two noteworthy events that occurred in the last six months. Both of these events involved ISIS executing
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East, USACompiled by Donald H. Harrison The rhetoric is heating up over the scheduled March 3 speech that Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahyu is scheduled to give to a Joint Session of Congress. Jeremy Ben Ami, execuitve director of J Street, has taken umbrage at Netanyahu saying that he will give his speech “not just as the
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Donald H. Harrison, USA
NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Monday, Feb. 9, urged the Urban Outfitters retail chain to remove a tapestry currently being sold in stores that is “eerily reminiscent” of the prisoner gray and white stripes and pink triangles that gay male prisoners were forced to wear in Nazi concentration camps. “Whether intentional or
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Travel and Food
JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin met with members of the Cohen, Braham and Saada families, whose loved ones were murdered in the terrorist attack on the kosher shop in Paris last month. The President spoke with the families and heard from them about their experiences over this difficult time. The President told
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–During a joint press conference Monday, Feb. 9, with Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, U.S. President Barack Obama defined his differences with Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu concerning the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran. Here is a text of his comments on that subject, as provided by the White House. Q
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Middle East, USAJERUSALEM (United With Israel) — A Shi’ite Lebanese cleric, in an extremely rare gesture, has reached out to Jews and Christians worldwide, denouncing violence in a Facebook post monitored here in Jerusalem. “We call on rabbis, priests, cardinals and Muslim clerics, Sunni and Shia, to underemphasize the verses, the traditions and the religious texts that
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Middle EastLA JOLLA, California (Press Release) — The San Diego Center for Jewish Culture in partnership with the Anti-Defamation League present the documentary Defiant Requiem. The movie will be shown in the David & Dorothea Garfield Theater at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus (4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla) on Thursday, March 12 at 7
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Travel and FoodENCINITAS, California — The Center for Jewish Culture (CJC) in collaboration with the House of Israel and A Culture of Peace proudly presents Yemen Blues — with Ravid Kahalani in a San Diego premiere performance at La Paloma Theatre, Encinitas, Sunday, March 1, at 7:30 pm. The show is being sponsored by the Leichtag Foundation. Hailed
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Travel and FoodBE’ER SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) – In what is called the MIT-Israel-BGU Seed Fund, the two universities recently approved five joint research proposals for funding, supporting new collaborations between faculty and research scientists at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). BGU and MIT signed the agreement last May
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Thomas Friedman of The New York Times does not want Israel mucking in American policy-making toward Iran, and so counsels Prime Minister Netanyahu to cancel his planned speech to the U.S. Congress. He seems to believe Iran’s determined march toward nuclear weapons and genocidal rhetoric about Israel, in fact,
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — I get mail almost every day, but not a lot of mail, just enough mail. While some people tell me they get over 100 emails a day and are swamped with correspondence, I just get two or three emails per day, and it’s easy to keep up with
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Sports & Competitions, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — One must be wary of generalizing about Jews. Not only are we individualistic, perhaps more than most other ethnic/religious groups, but different communities of Jews have been developing in their own ways over the course of 2,500 years. Since World War II there have been changes more pronounced that in
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA