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Hillary Clinton: Anti- Semitism motivates Israel critics

August 11, 2014

NEW YORK (WJC) –Former American Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is identifying anti-Semitism as an important motivation for the international criticism of Israel’s incursion in Gaza, according to a new interview. “It is striking … that you have more than 170,000 people dead in Syria. … You have Russia massing battalions—Russia, that actually annexed […]

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Middle East, USA

JNS news briefs: August 11, 2014

August 11, 2014

Egypt’s El-Sisi and Saudi King Abdullah meet in Jeddah (JNS.org) Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi met with Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah at a royal palace in Jeddah on Sunday. The two leaders of the Arab world’s most populous and wealthy states met to discuss both regional and international issues, including the conflict in Gaza and

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Travel and Food

Money Maven: 15- vs. 30- year mortgages

August 11, 2014

By Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO — Dear Money Maven: Q: My wife and I are buying our first house. It’s a bit of a financial stretch for us, so we’d like to get the lowest interest rate possible. We’re borrowing $300,000 and have a choice between a 30-year fixed mortgage at 4% or a 15-year

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Sheryl Rowling

Gazans’ economic well-being requires peace

August 11, 2014

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Hamas resumed rocketing Israel on Friday, August 8, one surety was that Israel’s office of “Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (West Bank and Gaza Strip)” [COGAT] would continue operating as it has through gruesome acts of terror against Jews, “intifadas,” rocket attacks and kidnappings through tunnels.

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA

Westward- bound Jews often stopped at The Dalles

August 11, 2014

s -Nineteenth in a Series — By Donald H. Harrison THE DALLES, Oregon — Today, there are few Jews living in this city, but it is not surprising that at one point in its history, Jewish merchants found it a very attractive place to do business. “The Dalles” was given its name by French Canadian

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Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food, USA

Performing arts and religion: helping each other

August 10, 2014

By Donald H. Harrison CORONADO, California – Over the weekend, I attended a recital featuring an organist, two trumpet players, and a soprano at the First Church of Christ Scientist in this San Diego suburb, allowing me to look around one of the many historic buildings in this metropolitan area designed by San Diego architect

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion

Ceasefires play into Hamas’s hands

August 10, 2014

By Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — I began my previous article with the statement that “Operation Protective Edge appears to be winding down… .” So I’m not completely surprised that the three-day ceasefire was just one of several that Hamas has used to regroup without fear of Israeli interference. The situation Prime Minister Bibi

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Middle East, Steve Kramer

Zeidan supports Hamas attacks on Israel

August 10, 2014

By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) — In a TV interview on the Lebanese Mayadeen TV channel, Muhammad Zeidan, the recently resigned head of the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee in Israel and an Israeli citizen, came out in support of Hamas, saying: “The missiles fired from Gaza constitute self-defense,” according to MEMRI’s (Middle East Media

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Middle East

U.S. tries to clean up its Middle East messes

August 10, 2014

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — One should applaud, perhaps with one hand, the wisdom shown by Barack Obama in his efforts to withdraw the United States from active involvement in the Middle East. At the same time, we should note that he is at least partly responsible for the present chaos. That Nobel Peace Prize

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

The Wandering Review: ‘Alive Inside’

August 10, 2014

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — If you are a senior citizen or a child or grandchild of a senior citizen, you probably know or will know someone in the future coping with Alzheimer’s disease. Indeed, as the baby boomers start entering the ranks of the septuagenarians, the numbers of Americans suffering from dementia will

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Lawrence Baron, Science, Medicine, & Education

Mossad’s missions make for thrilling reading

August 10, 2014

The Greatest Missions of the Mossad by Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — In 1965, Ezer Weizman was Chief of the Israeli Air Force and Meir Amit was Head of the Mossad (Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations). The USSR had recently begun flying its newest MIG-21 fighter. This plane

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Travel and Food

ADL mourns murdered Florida rabbi

August 9, 2014

BOCA RATON, Florida (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is shocked and horrified by the murder of a rabbi on his way to synagogue Saturday morning, Aug. 9, in North Miami Beach. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Rabbi Joseph Raksin’s family and the surrounding community. ADL has been in close contact with the

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USA

Humoring the headlines: August 9, 2014

August 9, 2014

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─The NCAA authorized college teams in “power conferences” to develop compensation plans for their student athletes, reasoning that pay for play has worked so well in politics, why not try it in collegiate sports. * For years conservatives have claimed there is a war on Christmas, but with the rise of

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

The novel our columnist had to write

August 9, 2014

“The time is out of joint. O cursed spite That ever I was born to set it right.” –Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1, scene 5 By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel (Press Release) — Hamlet expresses so succinctly and poetically what many of us feel as members of the Second Generation when we think about the

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson

Hillary Clinton: Anti- Semitism motivates Israel critics

JNS news briefs: August 11, 2014

Money Maven: 15- vs. 30- year mortgages

Gazans’ economic well-being requires peace

Westward- bound Jews often stopped at The Dalles

Performing arts and religion: helping each other

Ceasefires play into Hamas’s hands

Zeidan supports Hamas attacks on Israel

U.S. tries to clean up its Middle East messes

The Wandering Review: ‘Alive Inside’

Mossad’s missions make for thrilling reading

ADL mourns murdered Florida rabbi

Humoring the headlines: August 9, 2014

The novel our columnist had to write

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