By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C–On July 26, 1948, President Truman issued Executive Order 9981 abolishing segregation in the armed forces and ordering, “there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed forces without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin.” It was, and he was, politically incorrect for […]
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Shoshana Bryen, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The Fort Hood killings will reverberate. At the lower end of the military, Muslims will find their property trashed, and hear themselves called camel jockeys and rag heads. The stories differ only in detail from those told over the years by Jews, Catholics, African Americans, and Hispanics. Soldiers the world over
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Lloyd Levy LONDON, England, Nov. 10 — I suppose it is a sign of getting old, that one feels standards are falling in the younger generations. The last 24 hours have seen some thoroughly distressing examples of the most unbelievable ignorance among young people in the UK. There is a quiz programme on television called
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Lloyd LevyBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO–On May 27, 2008, a major monument to gay holocaust victims was unveiled in Berlin. The monument remembering gays persecuted by the Nazi regime ‘was unveiled in preparation for a ceremony in Berlin which was presided over by Germany’s federal commissioner for culture, Bernard Neumann, and openly gay Berlin Mayor Klaus
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Carol Davis, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C.–Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority (West Bank division) has announced that he will not run in the Palestinian election currently scheduled for January 2010. He blames Israeli “intransigence” on the issue of houses for Jewish people east of the 1949 Armistice Line. We offer another perspective. “Strengthening
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Thomas Friedman has written one of his better articles. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/opinion/08friedman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion As a retired professor still inclined to give grades to everything I hear or read, I’d say about 92, or A-. The major theme is quite good. Friedman recognizes that there is no gas left in the peace process. It
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Ira SharkanskyBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — When 12-year old M. applied to attend the Jews’ Free School, the secondary school that was founded in 1732 and serves London’s Jewish community, he was not accepted. The reason? His mother was not born Jewish and her conversion was in accordance with the progressive, not the orthodox,
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Dorothea Shefer-VansonBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM—Allahu Akbar, Praise the Lord, and Hear O Israel elicit the best of sentiments, and something else. A youtube segment from CNN shows radical Muslims, native born Americans, including one who converted from Judaism, who praise Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, call for Osama bin Laden to continue his holy war, and urge
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Ira Sharkansky, USAWhile only Jewish member of Congress to vote against condemning Goldstone report, Bob Filner of San Diego says he was not the only one who held that view
Eighteen countries voted in the UN General Assembly against the Goldstone report. We should show our appreciation to Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Macedonia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Netherlands, Palau, Panama, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, and our own blessed United States of America.
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USA