The hate narrative and Muslims in America
Jewish Journal
June 15, 2016
On the sixth night of Ramadan, June 11, I broke my fast at a synagogue during a Havdalah-Shavuot celebration.
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Terror and the election: What does it mean?
Raphael J. Sonenshein
June 15, 2016
In an election year that has already passed the abnormal and entered the zone of the surreal, the June 12 terror attack in Orlando, Fla., throws even more uncertainty into the mix.
Trump: Obama treats Muslims ‘far better’ than Israel
jacobk
June 15, 2016
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Tuesday accused President Barack Obama of treating Muslim nations far better than he treats Israel, repeating a claim he made in the aftermath of the Orlando nightclub attack.
Pulse and Pride
Rob Eshman
June 13, 2016
OK, I’ll start with the good news. While the extent of the Orlando tragedy was being revealed back East, in Los Angeles, tragedy was averted.
Heavily armed man arrested as L.A. pride festival proceeds in solidarity
Jewish Journal
June 12, 2016
A man was arrested in California with assault weapons and possible explosives on Sunday and told authorities he was in the Los Angeles area for the gay pride festival, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Gunman kills 50 at Florida gay club in worst U.S. mass shooting
Jewish Journal
June 12, 2016
A man armed with an assault rifle and pledging loyalty to Islamic State militants killed 50 people during a gay pride celebration at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, early on Sunday in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, a rampage President Barack Obama denounced as an act of terror and hate.
Arab and Jew – activist friends in Israel
Jewish Journal
June 9, 2016
Zouheir Bahloul, an Israeli-Arab (and well-known sports announcer and recently, Knesset member) and Moshe Chertoff (a technical writer, and long-ago immigrant from Los Angeles) are friends and almost neighbors.
Obama endorses Clinton after meeting Sanders
jacobk
June 9, 2016
President Barack Obama took the first major step to unify the Democratic Party on Thursday, meeting with Senator Bernie Sanders in the Oval Office and issuing a video endorsement of Hillary Clinton right afterwards.
Terror is the real Nakba
David Suissa
June 8, 2016
Palestinians consider the birth of the state of Israel a catastrophe, a “nakba.” It’s their Holocaust Day.
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