WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–Following is a transcript of comments on Israel by Andrew J. Shapiro, assistant secretary of State for political-military affairs as prepared for delivery Friday at the Brookings Saban Center for Middle East Policy: Good morning. I am particularly pleased to be here at the Saban Center to address the Obama Administration’s enduring commitment to […]
Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Since 1854: A Noted Historian Views American Jewry’s Last Century Southwestern Jewish Press, September 17, 1954, pages 6, 7 By Dr Salo W. Baron, president, American Jewish Historical Society When one looks back on the past 100 years, one finds that that period started as a period of
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Adventures in SD History, Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release)– The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations has requested a meeting with the Cuban Ambassador to the UN Pedro Nunez Mosquera to discuss the plight of Alan P. Gross, who has been held in a Cuban jail since December 3, 2009. The Conference also addressed this issue in a letter
NEW YORK (Press Release)–At a tribute reception Wednesday for outgoing Israeli UN Ambassador Gabriela Shalev and Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Daniel Carmon as well as Consul General of Israel Asaf Shariv and Deputy Consul General of Israel Benjamin Krasna hosted by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and Israel Bonds,
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Middle East, USASAN FRANCISCO (Press Release)–The Helen Diller Family Foundation and The Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties has announced the 2010 recipients of the prestigious Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Award. Now in its fourth year, the award has significantly increased in awareness, tripling its visibility by drawing more than 175 exceptional
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. — Following is the transcript of remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a reception for Hannah Rosenthal, the special envoy to combat worldwide anti-Semitism. SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, I don’t think I need to say a word. (Laughter.) It is such a great pleasure for me to welcome all of you here
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Middle East, USABy Franklin Gaylis SAN DIEGO — Several thousand years of Jewish history has been extremely well documented. What about our personal family’s history over the past few hundred years? This is the question I asked myself when our children were born in the USA after my wife Jean, and I emigrated in 1982 from South
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –Israel is a normal country, but is strained to preserve that status against the rest of the world that is even less normal. That is not a sentence one would expect from a confirmed social scientist. It does not make sense according to the elemental rules of logic, but it does
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –President Obama dragged out some really dated stereotypes while demeaning both Jews and Israelis in an interview with Israel’s Channel 2 Television. Confronted with the “anxiety” (as the reporter put it) that some Israelis feel about his relationship toward Israel, Mr. Obama bluntly blamed the Jews: “This is the
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–As expected, the White House meeting between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu was an occasion for mutual admiration and pledges of cooperation. It was much different from the image conveyed by their previous meeting, when the White House had blasted the timing of an Israeli planning committee’s announcement about
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Another outlandish legal opinion should prod us to wonder how four U.S. Supreme Court justices got accepted to law school. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. writes in a dissenting opinion: “I do not think it is an exaggeration to say that today’s decision is a serious setback for freedom
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Middle East, USABy Dr. Michael Goldblatt Chairman, Zionist Organization of America PHILADELPHIA–It is clear that Israel faces some serious dangers and lurking threats, most obviously the threat of nuclear-armed Iran whose regime speaks frequently of a world without Israel and America. Three Iranian presidents have spoken publicly of seeing Israel eliminated by nuclear strikes, despite the costs
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Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — There is a crucial divide between PR and straight talk, between red lines, bottom lines and spin. Last week we cautioned against mistaking Israel’s bad PR for bad policy, and faulted people who respond to Israel based on how things look in the media rather than for what they
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USACompiled by the San Diego Jewish World staffSouthwestern Jewish Press, August 20, 1954, page 5 By Adolph Brodman News of the Fox Regular meeting of the Samuel I. Fox Lodge was held on Aug.10. Brother Morrie Kraus made his official visit and was greeted by one of the largest turnouts that the lodge had had
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