By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — One of Israel’s recent headline grabbing political event was the decision of the Supreme Court, against the government policy to place, without individual trials, illegal immigrants in something between a prison and an open facility deep in the desert for a period of up to three years. Insofar as the
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — When I first heard on the radio that President Obama had decided to dispatch 3,000 troops to Africa to fight Ebola, I thought I was mistaken; I couldn’t believe my ears. But later the same day, it was clearly confirmed. This is another unilateral executive decision that
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International, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-San Diego) praised the Obama Administration for its new regulations to boost financial protections for military families – an issue that Davis has championed in Congress. “These added protections will help end the vicious cycle of high interest rates, high debt, and allow servicemembers to get their
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USANEW YORK (Press Release)– AJC called Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s address to the UN General Assembly a rhetorical cocktail of hatred, deceit and distortion. Once again, as in his previous UN speeches, Abbas undermined prospects for advancing peace. “President Abbas today offered no fresh ideas, indeed no hope for peace,” said AJC Executive Director
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release)- Israel Hechter, the owner of San Diego-based mortgage investment firms Ocean 18, LLC, and Note Tracker Corporation, admitted in federal court on Friday, Sept. 26, that he paid $1 million in bribes to bank insiders at J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, GMAC Mortgage, LLC, and National City Bank. According to his plea
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San Diego CountyBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ The first female pilot from the United Arab Emirates participated in the bombing sorties against ISIS in Syria. The UAE news agency refers to her as the country’s veiled threat. * Dick Cheney criticized President Obama for mentioning the racial tension in Ferguson during his UN speech this week. According
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireAnd Give Up Showbiz: How Fred Levin Beat Big Tobacco, Avoided Two Murder Prosecutions, Became a Chief of Ghana, Earned Boxing Manager of the Year & Transformed American Law’ by Josh Young By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –You might not know who Fred Levin is but after you finish reading And Give Up Showbiz you will.
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USATEL AVIV (Press Release) — “I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that cyber defense solutions will serve as the essential basis for human development and economic growth in this century — I think it’s happening before our very eyes,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told leading policymakers and cybersecurity experts at the 4th Annual International
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Morton A. Klein and Daniel Mandel NEW YORK — In recent days, a small fixture of Middle East ceasefire monitoring disintegrated, with scarcely anyone noticing. The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), the multinational force that had monitored the Israeli/Syrian ceasefire lines since 1974, disappeared as though it had never existed. Yet, in the view
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LEEDS, England (Press Release) –A major international research project led by the University of Leeds in the UK has attracted significant funding to shine new light on forgotten works by Jewish artists. Performing the Jewish Archive has been awarded £1,534,076 (US$2.5 million) by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) under its Care for the
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Jewish woman markets ‘cootie booties’ SAN DIEGO (Press Release) –While walking barefoot through airport security a couple years ago, local Jewish Rancho Santa Fe resident, Adria Cammeyer, looked down at the dirty floor and filthy feet of the person in front of her and had an epiphany, Cootie Booties. Cootie Booties are a cute and
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Travel and FoodBy J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida — The Jihadists come in all shapes and colors, but there are various well-defined divisions. The first is Al-Qaeda, the perpetrators of 9/11. Their enemy is the modern countries of the West, headed by the United States. They destroyed the World Trade Center 13 years ago and killed many
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Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-San Diego) introduced legislation to eliminate all administrative fees on federal student loans. By ending these fees, students would save over $1.5 billion per year. “The debt saddling students when they leave college hurts not only the student but impacts our economy,” said Davis, a senior member
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USANEW YORK (Press Release) – AJC (American Jewish Committee) has praised President Obama’s call for Arab and Muslim countries to collectively address the sources of violent extremism raging across much of the Middle East and North Africa. “It is time for the world – especially Muslim communities – to explicitly, forcefully, and consistently reject the ideology of
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