Jewish interest license plate: BASHIRT
SAN DIEGO — Charles Burton sent this photo in, and if it seems a little blurry, well perhaps it was so destined!
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Trivia, Humor & SatireSunday news shows examine Bibi- Barack flap
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—The flap over House Speaker John Boehner’s invitation to Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu to speak before a Joint Session of Congress, and the latter’s acceptance, without either man checking with President Barack Obama first, was a point of discussions on the Sunday morning television news shows. On CBS’s Face
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USAJewish interest license plates: ‘EEMAH’
SAN DIEGO–Melanie Rubin, our license plate maven and spotter-in-chief, describes this one, appropriately, as “the mother of all license plates.”
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & SatireNetanyahu tells Cabinet why he’ll address Congress
JERUSALEM (Press Release)–Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, at the start of his weekly Cabinet meeting, explained why he has accepted the invitation from the Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner, to address a joint session of Congress. Here is the text of his remarks: “In the coming weeks, the major powers are liable
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Middle East, USAAmanda Rothschild and the state of the restaurant
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—A video of U.S. President Barack Obama eating lunch at Charmington’s Restaurant in Baltimore with several women including the restaurant’s managing partner, Amanda Rothschild, was distributed by the White House during the week leading up to the President’s State of the Union Address on January 20 in which he called
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Donald H. Harrison, USAViolent racism practiced by some Israeli Jews
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–In the post-World II Poland of my childhood it was dangerous for Jews – as it had been before the Holocaust – to walk in the streets lest thugs attacked them. That’s why I wasn’t sent to a local school when we returned from the Soviet Union in 1946 but had
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Middle EastFemale freedom fighter’s story unfinished
By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — Hanna Armoni’s Are You Waiting for Eliahu?: The Story of a Woman Freedom Fighter, 1942-1948 (Yair Publishing, 2007) is a book with a difficult autobiographical story to tell. As a youngster living in pre-Israel Palestine, she joined the Lehi, one of several underground insurgency groups determined to oust the British
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Travel and FoodU.N has done little good since Korea
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The UN may do good somewhere, but the case would take some convincing. Its people are spread throughout the Third World. All told, they are probably not worse than the governments they are meant to help. We often see UN vehicles and personnel in our neighborhood. They are here to help the
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USACalifornia soon to debate the ‘right to die’
Compiled by Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Death, and whether we have a right to it on our own time and in our own way, are questions facing the California State Legislature. It is sure to be controversial among those who have religious objections and those who believe some patients might be pressured into
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Donald H. Harrison, USAThe mayor of the Roanoke Sheraton
By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California –Every once in a while you run into someone you’ve never seen before who winds up making a home in your soul. Days after the encounter, when you are situated comfortably in your home, it becomes clear that you will likely never see that person again. A gaping distance,
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USANetanyahu, Obama: Who said what and when
Compiled by Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The rumors and “not for attribution” comments are far outdistancing what U.S. officials have put on the record concerning President Barack Obama’s alleged anger with Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for agreeing to speak before a Joint Session of Congress, now planned March 3. So let’s go
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USAU.S. equips Palestinian army on West Bank
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last week, officials from the U.S. Consulate in East Jerusalem attended a Palestinian protest over Israel’s removal of olive trees illegally planted in the West Bank. Coordinated with the Palestinian Authority [PA] but not Israel, the Consulate personnel ended up clashing with Israelis living nearby. It was, perhaps, the
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA