By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — People ask me what the United States should be doing toward the upheavals in the Middle East. Here’s a short, quick list of themes: 1. Understanding that there are some people who want real democracy and others who don’t, U.S. policy should be focused on battling the latter, especially
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–“Mourning for the victims has barely begun, but the government has already managed to discredit their memory.” So writes Bernard Avishai, the Canadian born Israeli political commentator and consultant who spends much time in the United States. He’s referring to the ways in which the Government of Israel has exploited the
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By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Excitement is mounting as some choirs are scheduling extra rehearsals and all are making time in their practice evenings to allow for the visits of David Amos, conductor and Rhoda Gaylis, pianist. Those two outstanding musicians and community leaders will help prepare the choirs for their final numbers,
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Eileen WingardBy Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — I just don’t get it. The more degrees from famous universities U.S. leaders have, the less they seem to know, especially about history. Consider this in light of their inability to understand that not only al-Qaida but also Syria, Hamas, Hizballah, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the AKP government in
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By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO–One is torn and in anguish between rage and passion: The cold-blooded, brutish slaying with knives of the Fogel family, including parents, small children and an infant, in the Jewish community of Itamar on the West Bank boils up torrid feelings of antipathy and regret—why did I ever feel compassion
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Middle EastLOS ANGELES (Press Release)– StandWithUs is horrified and grief-stricken by the savage murder of five members of the Fogel family. Palestinian terrorists slipped into the house while the family slept, stabbed the parents, slashed the throat of 11-year-old Yoav, knifed 3-year-old Elad in the heart, and slit the throat of their three-month-old baby, Hadas. The
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Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—The continuing column “Adventures in San Diego Jewish History,” which is compiled from issues of the Southwestern Jewish Press, has, in recent postings, been dealing with the construction and development in the 1950s of two adjoining properties on 54th Street: the Hebrew Home for the Aged and the Jewish Community Center. In late 1955, the
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Adventures in SD History, Donald H. Harrison(Column 26; March 14, 2011: Events listed in chronological order) Compiled by Donald H. Harrison * ISRAEL AND SAN DIEGO * Dr. Eli Lewis of Ben Gurion Univerity of the Negev will discuss exciting developments in the fight against diabetes at 2:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 15, at Ner Tamid Synagogue. 15318 Pomerado Road, Poway. *
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By Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — If you describe yourself as progressive it’s likely that you’ll warm to Ehud Barak these days. Though he betrayed the Labor Party he was elected to lead, and though for a long time he has appeared as the fig leaf for the policies of the Netanyahu government, he has of
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–A spurt of angry speech and activity that leaves little behind, or a spark of change in direction? After the Sabbath killing of five members of the Fogel family in the settlement Itamar: Israeli politicians across the spectrum from right to left expressed revulsion and rage. The Prime Minister, in a public
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Notice of 22nd Annual Meeting of the United Jewish Fund of San Diego Southwestern Jewish Press, December 9, 1955, Page 11 Take notice that the annual meeting of the united Jewish Fund of San Diego will be held at 6:30 p.m., Sunday, the twenty second (22nd) day of
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Adventures in SD HistoryNEW YORK (Press Release) –The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Sunday strongly criticized the conviction and sentencing of Alan Gross to 15 years in prison by a Cuban court and called on the Cuban government to release him on humanitarian grounds. Gross, an American subcontractor on a U.S. Agency for International Development program and an active member of the Jewish
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Travel and FoodBy Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — I listened again to President Barack Obama’s main speech on Egypt back during the revolution and two phrases caught my ear. They were both intended, perhaps, as bland rhetoric yet they carry an awesome amount of meaning. The first was this: “Suppressing ideas never make them go away.” At
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Middle East, USACompiled by San Diego Jewish WorldThe Festival of Lights (Editorial) , Chanukah, commemorating history’s first uprising on behalf of religious liberty, is a holiday which has grown in meaning and importance with the years. Jews have suffered and died for religious liberty, but the occasions when they fought were few and far between. The example
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