Muslim Brotherhood’s New Campaign: Seize Control of Egypt’s Islamic Institutions

By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — This is of gigantic importance (see if anyone else covers it). MEMRI has pointed out the opening of a Muslim Brotherhood campaign to replace Egypt’s current clerical hierarchy with its own people. If that happens…you can imagine. Once Islamists are in place making the “official” decisions on what constitutes

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Middle East

Rabbi challenges Uganda election result; alleges fraud and intimidation

KAMPALA, Uganda (Press Release)–At the behest of his Jewish, Muslim and Christian supporters, Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, a native of Uganda, is peacefully challenging the official results in the election to national parliament. The frontrunner leading up to the election, Rabbi Sizomu lost in the official count to the opponent Yahaya Gudoi the candidate from the

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Travel and Food

Palestinian snub of U.S. consulate brings U.S. foreign aid there in question

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Since the establishment of a Palestinian governing authority in 2003, the United States has provided it with more than $3.5 billion in aid, more than $2 billion since 2007 to “strengthen” Abu Mazen after the ouster of Fatah from Gaza. The 2010 figure was $500 million. The intrepid investigators

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Shoshana Bryen, USA

Palestinians once again reject negotiations

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–It’s happened again. Within a day of the Prime Minister Netanyahu talking about pursuing a temporary solution for Israel and Palestine, the leader of the Palestine Authority has rejected the idea. So much for negotiations. The history of rejection goes back a long way, with a prominent landmark being the Khartoum Declaration

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

A Bissel This, A Bissel That…San Diego Jewish News and Chatter

(Column 23,  March 3, 2011)           Compiled by Donald H. Harrison Jewish Organizations The Agency for Jewish Education sponsors UCSD Political Science Professor Emeritus Sanford Lakoff  lecturing  March 14 at 7:00 pm at the library at 1776 Dove Lane in Carlsbad.  His lecture is titled, “Turmoil in the Middle East: Democracy

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County

On President Obama’s ‘ideologism’ versus ‘pragmatism’

By Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D LA JOLLA, California–In my previous articles, I wrote about the “structural endemic obstacles” that plague our system of government and lead to immobilism and, even, to paralysis. In this analysis I concentrate on a very disturbing flaw in our political discourse that makes the decision-making process a herculean task. I am

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USA

Wikileaks founder complains his Jewish financial support drying up

LONDON (WJC)–The founder of the controversial internet platform ‘WikiLeaks’, Julian Assange, has accused British journalists of a “Jewish conspiracy” against him, to deprive him of funds by Jewish donors. The accusation came in remarks published in the British magazine ‘Private Eye’, which was reporting on a phone call Assange made to the magazine’s editor two

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Travel and Food

Microphages speed messages of infection relief to other parts of body

HAIFA (Press Release)–Immunological research at the University of Haifa, Israel, has made a new breakthrough, revealing a critical component in the “decision-making” process of white blood cells that play a role in the healing process from bacterial inflammation. “The process that we have discovered can assist in the development of drugs that are based on

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Science, Medicine, & Education

Jewish peoplehood, not religion, should be basis for right of return

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Is Jewish identity primarily national or religious? Though Judaism is, indeed, a combination of both (Jewish civilization, as Mordechai Kaplan called it), Zionism has put nationalism before religion. Being a Jew in Israel is much more being a member of the Jewish people than of the Jewish faith. The so-called conversion

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Travel and Food

United for Israel FB page attracts over 100,000 friends

 BET SHEMESH, Israel (Press Release)– ‘United with Israel’, a grass-roots pro-Israel organization started by American Jewish families living in Israel, has become the fastest-growing pro-Israel Facebook page on the web. In less than 3 months it has experienced explosive, viral growth, increasing its fan base by over 100,000 people. Israel supporters from all over the world have been joining

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Middle East