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Biden, Palin lead campaign clash on Mideast
The two vice-presidential candidates led the way Wednesday as the Obama and McCain campaigns worked to draw clear battle lines on Iran and Israel.
Iran is bombastic but Pakistan has the bomb
If you think Iran is scary, just consider what would happen if Islamic extremists took over Pakistan.
ANALYSIS: Sarah Palin . . . and the Jews
For Jews who are not necessarily Israel Firsters, she carries some positives and negatives. Positives: she is a crusader for good government and a fiscal conservative. She is smart and successful and patriotic. Jews like all these things.
Dems use speeches to hit GOP on Israel
Speaker after speaker at the Democratic convention on Wednesday night in Denver argued that GOP recklessness had emboldened Israel's enemies
Book details journey to a father’s distant land—Kurdish ‘Jerusalem’
"My father had staked his life on the notion that the past mattered more than anything.He sublimated homesickness into a career."
Biden and the Jews: Strong ties and friendly disagreements
Before he announced his vice presidential pick, Barack Obama said he wanted someone to spar with but who ultimately would be loyal enough to create a comfortable working relationship. No one knew then that he had picked Joe Biden, but his ISO ad fit Biden's relationship with the Jewish community perfectly
VIDEO: Joe Biden (a self-declared Zionist) is good for the Jews
From the people who brought you the Iraq war comes . . . The ALL NEW Cold War
Obama world tour strikes gold
Defending Identity
Natan Sharansky's previous book, "The Case for Democracy," changed the world. It inspired a generation of U.S. policymakers and influenced President George
W. Bush in his decision to go to war against Saddam Hussein. So when Sharansky's second book, "Defending Identity," came out this month, I thought I'd better read it, quick
AUDIO: The Jews of Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, India, China and Iran
Jewish communities that we don't hear very much about, in Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, India, China, Iraq and Iran
Briefs: Obama to visit Israel this month, Hezbollah swap inches forward
The presumptive Democratic Party candidate Sen. Barack Obama is expected to arrive in Israel on July 22 or 23 for a two- or three-day visit, Yediot Achronot reported.
The trouble with seeking Muslim moderates in Iraqi prisons
The chickens, having come home, roost
Joe Klein’s dual-loyalty assertion for Jews
From blood to booze, Baghdad’s coming back
Iran files complaint over Mofaz threat, Hamas claims 2002 bombings
One-third of British Jews under age 18 are ultra-Orthodox, according to a new study. A study published Friday by the umbrella group of British Jewry, the Board of Deputies, found that the British haredi community has grown at an annual rate of about 4 percent over the last two decades
AUDIO: Iranian American Jews —Supporting U.S. troops
Nessah Synagogue's young Iranian Jewish professionals discuss their support for U.S. soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as their preparation of 'care packages' for U.S. forces.
VIDEO: Rachel Somekh teaches two classic Iraqi Jewish recipes—potato chops and cigars
Rachel Somekh teaches two classic Iraqi appetizers, potato chops and cigars
Plan ahead
Obama to AIPAC: War in Iraq has hurt Israel
"I have been proud to be a part of a strong, bi-partisan consensus that has stood by Israel in the face of all threats. That is a commitment that both John McCain and I share, because support for Israel in this country goes beyond party. But part of our commitment must be speaking up when Israel's security is at risk, and I don't think any of us can be satisfied that America's recent foreign policy has made Israel more secure"
Once wealthy and numerous, Baghdad’s Jews at the edge
U.S. sniper used Quran for target practice
Books: Former CIA analyst details failures in agency actions
"Failure of Intelligence, The Decline and Fall of the CIA" by Melvin A. Goodman (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008).
Segway inventor Dean Kamen brings his high-tech vision to Israel
Dean Kamen, the multimillionaire inventor renowned for the Segway personal transporter, traveled to Israel with a message for teenagers: Careers in science will help make them the rock stars of their generation
The other refugees
Is there a more loaded word in the Arab-Israeli conflict than "refugee"
What’s best for America is also best for Israel
Christians fleeing Iraq; few entering U.S.
20 questions with John McCain
Interview with presidential candidate Senator John McCain and a transcript of remarks by the Senator to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council.
Vets for Freedom shed light on war
As Shabbat ended on March 15, 150 teenagers, parents and senior citizens came to hear members of Vets for Freedom speak at YULA High School. As a 15-year-old freshman in high school, I wanted to attend to hear these soldiers' stories because I care about our country. I also wanted to hear their side of the war, and after the soldiers spoke, I saw the war in a new light.
New U.S. administration won’t mean new Mideast policy
For months, we've been hearing the presidential candidates promise American voters "change." But as the U.S. primaries move beyond their half-way point, here is a prediction: Whoever becomes president in 2008 will pursue the same policies as the Bush administration in the Middle East, because there is little latitude to do otherwise.
Catholics against war to deliver ashes to Bush
Imagining a newly divided Middle East
Gay Muslims: From Baghdad to Berlin
The danger of being gay in Iraq
Why one UCLA soldier went to war
A beautiful day in the neighborhood
Cartoon
Progressives should join Jews on Iran strategy
Progressives need to reach out to their natural allies in the Jewish community by acknowledging that the threats of nuclear proliferation and international terrorism exist and support the same reasoned, international approach of sanctions and international pressure that has helped bring the North Korean nuclear program under control.
Refugees in their own land
Gravedigging down with deaths in Iraq
Reporter killed in Iraq covering sectarian violence
American soldier goes Harry Caray at Iraqi checkpoint
‘Blood and guts - and tender remembrances of home’
Roaming Iraq with a heavy metal mercenary
Hersh: ‘Shifting targets’ in Iran
Redefining success in Iraq
Bush’s message ‘a pig wearing makeup’
Iran, Israel and the 2008 election
The Republican Party has a two-sided albatross around its neck, an unpopular president who is trying desperately to keep an unpopular war going past Election Day so that its disastrous ending can be on the next president's watch.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled …
‘America to the Rescue’
His Eminence, President-for-Life Bush
America’s next invasion: Vietnam
More religious bloodshed in Iraq
Remembering evangelicals for Iraq
Eight Jews left in Baghdad
Bush flirts with peace talks but won’t commit to Palestinians
President George W. Bush kicked off the week by reaffirming his vision of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but it was widely seen as an attempt to divert attention from his debacle in Iraq rather than a commitment to sustained diplomacy.
‘Keeping those Muslims out of our country’
‘The sacred secrets of Saddam’s super secret WMDs’
Mid East meltdown
Aye, there’s the barb!
Cartoon
President Joe Lieberman and war with Iran
Fleeing Iraq to to be enslaved by sex trade
Wolfowitz for mayor … of Iraq
Jewish ‘security-hawk’ and Iraq veteran turns against the war
The stoning in Iraq
Light at the end of the tunnel
Cartoon.
I am ashamed of the URJ’s Iraq resolution
I don't embarrass easily. But the Union for Reform Judaism's (URJ) recent resolution calling for an "expeditious withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq" did the trick.
Many guests at AIPAC event, but one is unwanted—Iraq
Democrats, speaking on background, said they were unsettled by how Iraq kept intruding into an event dedicated to securing Israel.
Israel labor strike called off; U.S. Jews against Iraq war most strongly
Faith-based foreign policy faces perils ahead
A stubbornly ideological administration has put the United States in a deep hole in the international arena -- and a vulnerable Israel could pay a big price for playing along with the true believers in Washington.
Briefs: L.A. Koreans and Jews protest anti-Semitic cartoons published in South Korea; Police Chief Bratton warns terrorism will be threat for the rest of our lives
Briefs
Sheket, b’vakasha!
Letters to the Editor
News from the hood, eruv in the air
Letters to the Editor
Time for Jewish leaders to end their silence on Iraq
According to all available polls, a large majority of Americans want to bring our involvement in Iraq to an end, and an overwhelming majority of Iraqis themselves are opposed to the continued American occupation of their country.
Analysis: Jewish silence on Iraq continues
The fact that a large majority of Jews opposes the war but their communal representatives refuse to speak out may accelerate the estrangement of so many from organized Jewish life, especially among younger Jews.
The Importance of Accessibility
President Bush made a point of going around the table and greeting each of us personally before the "formal" meeting began. But herein lies the curious part. There really was no formal meeting.
Don’t dismiss Iran Holocaust conference as harmless fringe elements
Even Borat, the bumblingly anti-Semitic comic character, could not have contrived a more absurd and utterly offensive assemblage: David Duke, erstwhile Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, alongside Robert Faurisson, the French pseudo-academic who argues that the Holocaust never happened, accompanied for dramatic effect by a group of ultra-Orthodox Jews whose anti-Zionist fanaticism motivates them to desecrate the memory of millions of murdered Jews.
New approaches in Iraq could <I>help</I> Israel
Israel is now stuck between Iraq and a hard place; those in the administration who most uncritically support Israel don't know what they're doing, and those who have better ideas are more critical of Israel.
Regime Change
Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni -- all have spoken in Los Angeles recently on the need to confront the Iranian threat immediately and forcefully.
But I'm wary.
Iraq war conspiracy—you can’t blame the Jews
Did the Jews do it?
I mean, after killing Jesus, did the Elders of Zion manipulate the government of the United States into invading Babylon as part of a scheme to abet the expansion of greater Israel?
The promise of ‘Peace in our Time’
The only reason for including Lebanon in the conversation at all is to signal to Iran and Syria that it will be offered up for grabs to them on a silver platter as well
U.S., Israeli officials see conflicting Iraq study ideas
Bush launched a weeklong review of the Iraq Study Group's recommendations on Monday, starting with meetings with top State Department officials. Later in the week he was to have met with outside experts, top U.S. diplomats in the region and top military brass.
Jimmy Carter Mideast book shows his anti-Israel bias
I like Jimmy Carter. I have known him since he began his run for president in early 1976. I worked hard for his election, and I have admired the work of the Carter Center throughout the world. That's why it troubles me so much that this decent man has written such an indecent book about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Brotherhood in a Sukkah … in Iraq
Being a service member in Operation Iraqi Freedom, I also realized that life, like the sukkah, is temporary. One never knows how long one might live or when one might die.
Dems hit back at GOP Israel ads
Top Democrats are mounting a furious counterattack against claims by Jewish Republicans that the GOP is likelier to favor Israel.
And who shall die
I'd like to suggest a small addition to your synagogue's High Holiday services this year, as if they're not long enough. Sometime before the recitation of the mourner's kaddish, or perhaps just before the Torah is returned to the ark, pull out any Sunday Los Angeles Times, and turn to the obituary section.
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor.
Salman Rushdie Q & A: there's a fascination with death among suicide bombers
Salmon Rushdie reflects on why apparently normal young men turn to terror, the dangers of religion and whether the United States has turned into an authoritarian state.
Jews in the Military: High Holidays Under Fire
Here are the stories of these American servicemen who observed the High Holidays not in conventional synagogues, but on far-flung battlefields. The worship services they participated in were often improvised and incomplete. But the jarring juxtaposition of war and prayer, faith and fear, continues to resonate with these men.
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
An (Israeli-American) Voice in the Wilderness
At the very least, Tasini wants voters to get a chance to listen to him. He offers himself up as a new kind of Jewish American anti-war candidate for Congress, the only one who, as this summer's news about the miseries of Iraq merged with that of the Lebanon blow-up, critically addressed both situations.
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor.
We Will Not Capitulate or Be Trampled Upon
Ben Caspit proposes the text for a speech by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that would explain to the world exactly what Israel is fighting for.
Washington Now Linking Iraq, Lebanon
In Baghdad, tens of thousands of Shiite marchers swore allegiance last week to their Hezbollah co-religionists; some even pledged their lives.
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