Israel defends construction plans amid EU, UN pressure (JNS.org) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday defended his government’s approval of 2,600 new housing units in the Givat Hamatos neighborhood in southern Jerusalem, while the European Union and United Nations continued to pressure the Jewish state over that issue. “We are going to build in […]
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InternationalBy James Colbert WASHINGTON, D.C. — Even during difficult economic times, most Americans still want our nation to maintain a credible national defense, support the welfare of its troops, and assume a leadership role for America in an increasingly chaotic world including by continuing close cooperation with democratic allies. That is why the President’s
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USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — It’s difficult not to see the authorization of the erection of another 1500 homes for Jews in East Jerusalem as a provocation, largely in response to the United Nations acknowledgement of the Palestinian Authority as (almost) a state, even if it seems to irritate even friendly governments, including the
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Middle East57 senators urge Obama to emphasize ‘readiness to take military action against Iran’ (JNS.org) More than half of the U.S. Senate has signed a letter urging President Barack Obama to re-emphasize his “readiness to take military action against Iran if it continues its efforts to acquire a nuclear weapon.” In California, neither Sen. Barbara Boxer
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InternationalGod created the first human being alone in order to teach us that whosoever kills a single soul is considered as though he has destroyed an entire world. By the same token, anyone who preserves a single human soul, it is as if that person sustained a whole world— BT Sanhedrin 37b; JT Sanhedrin 4:12, 22b By
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — All of us are horrified by what happened at the Sandy Hook School. May the souls of those slain rest in peace. May we, as a nation, somehow learn from this horrible experience! What disappoints me, in the aftermath of this outrage, is the arrogance of the
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — Ever hear someone say that they wish the job of parenting came with a manual? Well, Michelle Cove, author and filmmaker has taken that one step further. Her 252-page manifesto contains a collection of concrete suggestions, words of wisdom, and encouragement for today’s working mother. Cove divides her book,
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Eva TriegerReport: British primary schools removing Hebrew as officially recognized language (JNS.org) Hebrew will be removed as an officially recognized foreign language in the British primary school system, potentially preventing even some Jewish schools from teaching the language, the Jewish Chronicle (JC) reported. For many Jewish primary schools in the UK who offer Hebrew as
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InternationalBy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — I remember secretly praying, when I was a lad of ten years, for Santa Claus to mistake our home for a Christian household and slide down our chimney with presents. It was a serious and plaintive devotion; my good Catholic neighbors were going to have the reindeer adventure
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Jewish ReligionBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –Can Americans cure themselves of gun addiction? It’s a daunting assignment, and raises a question about coping. Gun addiction may be insoluble, and there may be no way for individuals to cope with the malady that infects so many of their fellow Americans as to make no place suitable as a refuge.
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USACIA: Pollard received life sentence for giving unauthorized interview to Blitzer (JNS.org) Jonathan Pollard, the only person in U.S. history to receive a life sentence for spying for an American ally, received a sentence of that magnitude because of an unauthorized interview he gave Wolf Blitzer of the Jerusalem Post in 1986, according to a
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InternationalBy Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — They should have called it Corny Island Christmas. Corny in a good way, of course. Donald Margulies’ new play, Coney Island Christmas celebrates what Jewish kids have fantasized about for a couple of generations now: an ecumenical Christmas that they can participate in without shocking the neighbors. After all, Jesus was a Jew, wasn’t
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Cynthia CitronBy David Amos SAN DIEGO –During the weeklong celebration of Hannukah, which just finished, I was pleased to find Radio Hannukah on the Sirius-XM satellite radio in the car. It was a special channel, entirely devoted, 24 hours a day, to recorded music related to the festival. Most of it was Hannukah music, while other
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California– When the devastated father of Emilie Parker, Robbie Parker, took to the cameras and microphones on Saturday to talk about his murdered 6 year-old child in Newtown, Connecticut, we were able to gain more than a media coup. Even the most cynical (and there are some), who may have
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