Obama administration undermines Israel-Azerbaijan relationship

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — When President Obama wants to impress Jewish audiences, such as AIPAC, he frequently casts U.S.-Israel relations in a military context. How much military aid Israel receives (although he had nothing to do with the level; President Bush set the level in a 10-year deal), how many exercises the two […]

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

As Obama cuts back on missile programs, Israel’s suffers

By Gabriel Max Scheinmann WASHINGTON, D.C. — Why is the Obama administration cutting funding to Israeli missile defense just as talk of an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities is reaching a crescendo? As it did last year, Congress, frustrated with the administration’s reduced request, has already moved to supplement the funding. Reps. Howard Berman,D-Calif., and

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Middle East

‘The Jewish Gospels’ examines emergence of rabbinic Judaism and Christianity

The Jewish Gospels by Daniel Boyarin;  ISBN 978-1-5955846-8-7©2010, $21.95, p. 200, including notes and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D WINCHESTER, Callifornia –Thanks to the Jewish general and historian Josephus and the Greco-Jewish philosopher Philo, we know a great deal about the internecine spiritual arguments among the Jews from the mid-second century BCE through the end

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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion

McKenzie comes up roses in ‘Ethel Merman’s Broadway’

By Carol Davis ESCONDIDO, California —-Rita McKenzie has been called ‘bold and brassy’. ‘Dynamite’. Call her what you will, but there is no doubt that she embodies the voice, spirit and persona of the bold, brassy and dynamite Ethel Merman. Now, in a limited engagement at the Welk Resort Theatre in Escondido Ms. McKenzie will

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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

President should trust Russia less and American friends more

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The sound bite went viral — the president of the United States asking the Russian president to carry a message to Putin for “space” in dealing with contentious missile defense issues until after the election so the American president would have “more flexibility.” The photos went viral as well:

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Shoshana Bryen, USA