Book tells of Martin Luther King’s best white friend

Ben Kamin, Dangerous Friendship: Stanley Levison, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Kennedy Brothers, Michigan State University Press, © 2014, ISBN 978-1-61186-131-0, 256 pages including bibliography, notes and index. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Martin Luther King Jr. had as a trusted aide a millionaire friend, who was an attorney and a successful real estate […]

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Overland Park shootings stir heart- felt reactions; third victim, Terri LaManno, was visiting her mom

San Diego Jewish World news roundup There were new developments and more responses Monday to the killing of three people at Jewish institutions in the Kansas City suburbs on Sunday and to the suspect calling out “Heil Hitler” to reporters after being taken into custody. Fox News reported that the woman shot in the parking

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Hubris is reason for U.S. foreign policy failures

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — It is tempting to simply list all the ways the Obama administration — particularly Secretaries Kerry and Hagel — has been wrong on foreign and defense policy. After all, Russia/Ukraine, Syria, Iran, China, and Israel/Palestinians are nothing to sneeze at. But finding a common thread among the mistakes might

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JNS news briefs: April 14, 2014

Jewish groups react to Kansas City area shootings (JNS.org) Leading American Jewish groups reacted swiftly with an outpouring of support for the Kansas City Jewish community following Sunday afternoon’s shootings. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called the shootings “heinous and unspeakable acts of violence.” “We at the Jewish Federations stand in solidarity with the Jewish community in

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