NY police ‘very cognizant’ of potential Iranian attack on city (JNS.org) The New York Police Department (NYPD) is monitoring the possibility of an Iranian attack on New York City due to the area’s large Jewish community, the New York Post reported. “Obviously if there’s any action involving Israel and Iran we have to be very cognizant […]
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InternationalThe three co-chairs of “Rabbis for Obama” write that President Barack Obama’s values are Jewish values and American values, and that we need his values in the White House for four more years. Obama’s record, they write, reflects the embodiment of Jews’ deepest obligations: tikkun olam, tzedakah, shalom—to repair the world, to pursue justice,
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USAShould Americans who support Israel take President Barack Obama at his word when he says he is fully committed to the Jewish state? No, not when Israel confronts the threat of nuclear annihilation by Iran, writes philanthropist and casino magnate Sheldon G. Adelson. Time and again Obama has signaled a lack of sympathy—or even
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USABy Ira Sharkansky BERLIN –While Israel has turned to the politics of election, we have been digging around in the dark roots of Varda’s history. They are deep in Germany. Her father, Erich, was a patriot until his death. He was proud of his father’s service in the German army during World War I (stationed on the
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Ira Sharkansky, Travel and FoodJERUSALEM (Press Release) – As Hadassah’s much anticipated Centennial Convention in Jerusalem nears, thousands of people from across the United States will travel to Israel, where they’ll honor Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as well as hear remarks from President Shimon Peres. In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Stephen and Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. —Washington wants to avoid a confrontation with Iran, but faces two wild cards. First, Israel may find itself unable to forgo the use of force against Iran’s nuclear facilities. Second, the administration has reiterated that it, too, finds a nuclear-armed Iran “unacceptable,” and may have to take action
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By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — Darn, I wish I had paid more attention in my high school Spanish class, or taken some courses when I moved here, or was fluent in a second language. If that were the case, I would have been better prepared to understand a good portion of the dialogue in
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By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — Nearly everyone knows a toe tapping, easy to hum along with melody by George Gershwin….but we are not quite as familiar with Ira, brother of the song and dance man. Ira’s life will be the subject of an upcoming musical created by Joe Vass, premiering October 17-20 and running
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Eva TriegerChavez defeats grandson of Jews in Venezuela presidential elections (JNS.org) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was re-elected Sunday, beating his opponent, Henrique Capriles Radonski, a Catholic whose grandparents were Jewish and Holocaust survivors. Chavez won 54.4 percent of the vote to Capriles’s 44.9. Radonski represented the Democratic Unity coalition, which combined 30 parties that oppose the Chavez
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InternationalIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces early elections, stresses advantages of speedy election cycle rather than lengthy process that could weigh on the economy. With snap elections, Netanyahu aims to prevent rival candidates from gaining ground, experts believe. By Shlomo Cesana and Mati Tuchfeld/JNS.org Now it’s official: Israel is going to the polls. Prime Minister
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By Isaac Yetiv , Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — In a previous commentary, I wondered if the incredible accumulation of blunders in the bloody assault on the US Consulate in Benghazi, that killed four Americans including a US ambassador, was due to ineptitude or lies. The passage of time and the emerging evidence have
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Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK — Loyal readers of this weekly column will remember Richard, Leon, and Simon. They were the three young men who signed up for my class on the Book of Genesis, Sefer Bereshit, many years ago. I then used Genesis as the source text for an introductory course on basic
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By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, TAIWAN — Just to show you how some Jews in Britain use humor in a different way than Jews in the United States and Canada, there is a new humor book of Jewish jokes out now titled Michael Winner’s Hymie Joke Book. Yes, the author’s name is part of the
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Travel and FoodBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — It has been said that bad news comes in threes — and that has proven true with the recent deaths of Mervyn Dymally, Nancy Miller, and Gloria Penner All three of them touched my life, and I’d like to pay tribute here. The Associated Press sent me early
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