By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Israelis and Americans are going through a couple of bad patches with Barack Obama. The two issues are as different as they could be, but are united in reinforcing distrust of duplicity at the top. Americans’ problems are currently focusing on the limping roll out of what is linked directly […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — The other day as my father-in-law, children and grandchildren joined with Nancy and me for Shabbat dinner, we tried to think of some wonderful way to celebrate Thanksgivingukah–as the conflation of Thanksgiving and Chanukah is being called. Supposedly, these two holidays only arrive together every 70,000 years, so
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Donald H. Harrison
By Lloyd Levy LONDON–The foreign policy of the Obama Administration must surely be the most disreputable since the alliance of Stalin and Hitler. Never before can a world power have alienated so many friends around the world, so quickly, and so deliberately. Hosni Mubarak, the ex-President of Egypt, a man who was a loyal ally
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Lloyd Levy, Middle EastBy Ron Hutter and Fred Winegust On November 9, 1938, the Nazis unleashed a series of riots against the Jews of Germany and Austria. In the space of a few hours, thousands of synagogues, Jewish businesses and homes were damaged or destroyed. Four hundred Jews were killed and for the first time, tens of thousands
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InternationalBy Steve Kramer Delegitimization efforts against Israel continue to be a major problem. Alone among the democracies, Israel’s sovereignty is singled out and questioned. Ian Lustick’s front page, above-the-fold NY Times Sunday Review article (September 15) is a particularly nasty example. Lustick, a political science professor at Penn, has made a career out of bashing
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Middle East, Steve Kramer
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Both Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung point out that it is through dreams we can better understand the unconscious mind. “Dreams” said Freud, “are the royal road to the unconscious.” The Talmud itself attests, “A dream that it is not interpreted is like a letter that
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi
Moshe Ya’alon dismisses Kerry ‘threats’ on possibility of third intifada (JNS.org) U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday that failed Israeli-Palestinian conflict negotiations could lead to a third Palestinian intifada. “The alternative to getting back to the talks is the potential of chaos. I mean, does Israel want a third intifada?” Kerry said in
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InternationalWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) –Two leading Washington-area rabbis have added their names to a growing list of clergy who are calling for D.C.’s NFL team to stop using the R-word in its team name. In recent months, religious leaders from a number of different faith communities have united in their opposition to the name, which
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USA
By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Whether you’re just out of school, changing jobs, or reentering the job market, the first thing you need to think about is not only what jobs are available, but what kind of person you are. What are the necessary conditions for you to do your best work?
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Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and Food
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO―Since the HealthCare.gov website is still not working properly, Kathleen Sebelius is advising single applicants without health insurance to use the eharmony.com dating website in the hope they will meet and marry someone who already has health insurance. Reeling over charges of plagiarism, Senator Rand Paul has accused his critics of
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO–After Jacob tricked Isaac into giving him Esau’s blessing, Jacob fled to Haran to escape his brother’s wrath. One night he stopped to rest. He lay his head on a stone, fell asleep, and dreamed. In his dream he saw a ladder with angels going up and down. God appeared
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Jewish Religion
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson Naomi Tsur, who was born in England and moved to Israel in 1966 to study Classics and Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has had a varied career, ranging from coin curator in Israel’s Antiquities Authority to co-authoring a Hebrew-English/English-Hebrew dictionary and heading the Society for the Protection of Nature in
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to Egypt was a blatant fence-mender. He said the Egyptian interim coalition’s democratic roadmap was “being carried out to the best of our conceptions,” and added that the aid suspension was not to be seen as “punishment” for what the U.S. administration previously
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen
By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO –It started as a joke. I was on the way out the door to work one day when my wife told me to take my hat and raincoat. “It’s going to rain today” I said, “But it’s nice out now. I’ll take my chances.” I came home soaked. A
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