Cuban Jewish leaders visit Alan Gross
Jewish Journal
October 1, 2012
Two Cuban Jewish leaders visited jailed American contractor Alan Gross and said they found him in “good spirits.”
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U.S. senators ask Cuban president to release Gross
Jewish Journal
September 25, 2012
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators asked Cuban President Raul Castro to release jailed American contractor Alan Gross.
Hamas top official: Kill every last Jew and American [VIDEO]
Jewish Journal
August 24, 2012
A senior Hamas official said in a televised sermon that he wished for the annihilation of every single Jew and American.
Health care for all: It’s an American — and a Jewish — imperative
Jewish Journal
July 5, 2012
From antiquity to the 20th century, preventive medicine was not bad. The Torah (Leviticus 12-13) already knows about quarantine as a method to contain communicative diseases, and the Talmud knows about such things as the importance of fruits and vegetables in one’s diet, the dangers of obesity, and many other aspects of taking care of our health that our doctors still recommend today.
Yitzhak Shamir remembered
Jewish Journal
July 2, 2012
When Yitzhak Shamir was Israel’s prime minister, he liked to point American visitors to a gift he received when he retired as director of the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service.
Spain reaches out to American Jewish tourists
Jewish Journal
June 27, 2012
Unless you can read artistically distorted Hebrew, you might not realize that the logo of a program by Spain’s tourism board spells out the four letters of “Sepharad,” the Hebrew word for Spain. And unless you know European geography, you might not realize that the distorted Hebrew letters represent the outline — the national borders — of Spain.
Top U.S. think tank warns against Israeli, American strike on Iran
Jewish Journal
May 15, 2012
The RAND Corporation, a think tank which advises the Pentagon, warned on Tuesday against an Israeli or American attack on Iran\’s nuclear reactors, and recommended the Obama administration try to \”quietly influence the internal Israeli discussion over the use of military force.\”
Opinion: The myth of the Iranian-American Jew
Jewish Journal
April 4, 2012
This one’s for our children — the teens and 20-somethings who were born in this country or who’ve lived here most of their life, who have no memory of Iran except what’s been passed on to them or what they’ve constructed with their imagination.
Opinion: In survey of American Jews, questions for right and left
Jewish Journal
April 3, 2012
Mark Twain famously distrusted statistics. This was due to their malleability. Ask the question the right way, and you can claim a mandate for anything.
Azerbaijan denies report it gave Israel access to airfields
Jewish Journal
March 29, 2012
Azerbaijan officials denied a claim in an American magazine that Israel was granted access to airbases in Azerbaijan.
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