(JNS.org) A bipartisan letter signed by more than three-fourths of the U.S. Senate urged President Barack Obama to stand by Israel ahead of his trip to the Middle East. The letter, signed by 78 U.S. senators including U.S. Sen Barbara Boxer (D-Calif) and supported by the America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), asks Obama to “reaffirm
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USABy Rabbi Jack Abramowitz NEW YORK — “Now, the man Moshe was very humble, more so than any person on the face of the Earth” – Numbers 12:3 A famous and familiar verse. But if Moshe Rabbeinu is our role model for humility, who is our Biblical exemplar for ego? There are a lot of
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Jewish ReligionBy Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO — President Obama is only the fifth sitting US President to visit Israel and like his predecessor, George W. Bush, waited until after the first term to make such a visit. Major diplomatic announcements or breakthroughs are not expected in any of the stops – to Israel, the West Bank or Jordan.
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Middle EastThe Sons of Pigs and Apes: Muslim Antisemitism and the Conspiracy of Silence by Neil J. Kressel, Potomac Books, Washington, D.C.; ISBN 978-1-59797-702-9 ©2012, $29.95, p. 206, plus addenda and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — The word “anti-Semitism” is a relatively new word to the English language, being coined sometime after 1860.
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SAN DIEGO — Melanie Rubin, license-plate spotter extraordinaire, found it, and Shahar Masori, Israeli-born son in law of the publishers, translated it: “Kal means light as in lighter than air. And ram means high as in higher than a kite…” Somebody, obviously, is feeling great!
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Jewish Religion, Melanie RubinBy Sheryl Rowling Sheryl asked me to do the column for her this time because “this year, Passover falls right in the busiest part of tax season!” I said to her, “Why is this year different from any other year?” That girl has no sense of humor these days … Dear Passover Fairy, I’m trying
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Jewish Religion, Sheryl RowlingObama in Israel says he is in ‘historic homeland of the Jewish people’ (JNS.org) Presenting a contrast to his Cairo speech four years ago—during which he said that Israel was born from the Holocaust—U.S. President Barack Obama in Israel on Wednesday emphasized the historic link of the Jewish people to the Holy Land. Obama in
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InternationalBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–The day after the swearing in of Israel’s new government and the day before the arrival of President Obama, a symposium was held in Jerusalem under the title, “Israeli-Palestinian Conflict – Where to?” on the occasion of the publication of The Routledge Handbook on the Israeli Palestinian Conflict, edited by Joel
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Middle EastBy Roz Rothstein LOS ANGELES –Although the UC San Diego student government voted last week for divestment from corporations doing business with Israel, the UC regents, who set investment policy, will not even consider the divestment resolution. After the student bill passed, UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla reiterated that “divestment is not the
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK — The world did not know that he was a mystic. He was an accomplished diplomat, who knew how to deal with people in positions of great power. Some characterized him as a shrewd, and even manipulative, manager of men. His name was Dag Hammarskjold, and he
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Jewish ReligionBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — When you think of Holocaust movies, you conjure up the black and white images of corpses and and skeletal survivors preserved on film by military camera crews as they followed Allied troops liberating concentration and death camps. Feature films like The Pawnbroker or Schindler’s List employ the same
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Lawrence BaronSAN DIEGO (Press Release)—Words Alive, a leading San Diego literacy agency that fosters a love of reading amongst at-risk youth, featured Lou Dunst, a local Holocaust survivor, during a teen book group discussion at Juvenile Court & Community School (JCCS) Arcadia Community on Thursday, March 14, 2013. The Words Alive Adolescent Book Group (ABG)
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San Diego CountyBy Juda Engelmayer NEW YORK — I didn’t actually watch the whole program on The History Channel, as my penchant for televised versions of Biblical accounts kind of waned once I learned that Cecile B. DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments” was not a literal depiction of what supposedly went down in Egypt some 3,500 years ago.
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Travel and FoodIsraelis skeptical about Obama spurring peace (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Sixty-two percent of Jewish Israelis say they do not believe that U.S. President Barack Obama can bring about a real breakthrough in Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, according to a poll released by the Israel Democracy Institute on Tuesday. After pollsters divided participants by Israeli political party,
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