World should recognize Lebanon as state sponsor of terrorism

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — General Petraeus’s widely remarked-upon but little-read testimony before Congress made note of: “Ungoverned, poorly governed and alternatively governed spaces. Weak civil and security institutions and the inability of certain governments in the region to exert full control over their territories and conditions that insurgent groups can exploit to create […]

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA

'Secret Lives of Games' will be featured at Museum of Man

   SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Starting June 11, the Museum of Man is getting serious about playing.  Their new exhibit, Counter Cultures: The Secret Lives of Games will feature games from around the world that will give visitors insight into various cultures, in addition to American favorites that have surprising origins. (Chutes and Ladders, for example,

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Hebrew Day student honored by Legislature for her essay on Survivor Gussie Zaks

SACRAMENTO (Press Release)– Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School 7th student Celia Benchetrit was an honoree Monday at the state capital for her essay (printed below) on Holocaust survivor Gussie Zaks. The essay on Zaks, who lives today in San Diego,  is printed in a book that was presented at the annual Holocaust Memorial Project

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USA

Is Obama scapegoating Israel to cover his Iran failures?

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C.–According to The New York Times, “Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has warned in a secret three-page memorandum to top White House officials that the United States does not have an effective long-range policy for dealing with Iran’s steady progress toward nuclear capability.”    A journalist wrote to JINSA, “It seems

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA

Ibsen’s ‘Ghost House’ a perfect fit for North Coast Rep

  By Carol Davis   SOLANA BEACH, California—When Henrik Ibsen wrote Ghosts in 1881 it was labeled sensational. Not in a positive way however, but shockingly and indecently sensational according to all reports! What’s so shocking to today’s audiences, I’ll venture to say, is the way women were thought of back then way before any

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Carol Davis, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Hillary Clinton sends Israel best wishes for Yom Ha'atzma'ut

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–Congratulations Israel on 62 years of independence! This is an opportunity to celebrate all that Israel has accomplished and to reaffirm the bonds that unite our two nations – our strategic partnership, our shared values, and our common aspirations. You know, in 1948, it took President Truman only 11 minutes to recognize

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Middle East, USA

Jewish refugees from Arab lands may be a factor in overall peace settlement

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–This is the time of Israel’s Memorial Day and Independence Day. Appropriate to the season, I’ve received two e-mails with items that some may see as a bit too assertive for their taste. Yet they tell important elements of the Israeli narrative. It is not the whole story of the Middle East, but

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Memo to the Church: Please leave us Jews out of your sex abuse scandal

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA–The Catholic Church historically inspired persecution against our people, and in the last half-century church leaders merit recognition for reconciling with us. After that immense effort to do right, the church has embarked on a new course of action: Confuse the heck out of the Jews.   New York Archbishop Timothy

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USA

Fee, Fie, Foe, Feiffer!

 By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — If you ask Jules Feiffer how he likes L.A., he will launch into a story about the time he spent 90 minutes driving around in traffic, becoming so lost and frustrated that he fled back to New York, thus forfeiting a substantial paycheck by abandoning the job he had

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