THE JEWISH CITIZEN Campagn 2008

Biden, Palin clash over whether Bush policies successful in Israel, Middle East

By Donald H. Harrison

SAN DIEGO—In their televised debate last night, vice presidential candidates Sarah Palin and Joe Biden clashed over whether the Bush administration has followed the right course in Israel, with Palin saying the Republicans would continue to push for a two-state solution for the Palestinians and the Israelis, and Biden saying Bush administration blunders have aided Iran’s cause in the Middle East.

A question posed by moderator Gwen Ifill of PBS during the debate at Washington University in St. Louis concerned whether the U.S. backed “two-state” solution with Israelis and Palestinians residing side-by-side in separate sovereign states was the right solution.

Palin, who is the Republican running mate of Senator John McCain, was first to answer. She said that “a two-state solution is the solution and Secretary (of State Condoleezza) Rice having recently met with leaders in the waning days of the Bush administration trying to forge that peace, and that needs to be done and will be the top of the agenda under a McCain-Palin administration.”

She then echoed what McCain had said in his recent first debate with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, that “Israel is our strongest and best ally in the Middle East” and “we have got to assure them that we will never allow a second Holocaust despite… warnings from Iran and any other country that would seek to destroy Israel…”

She added; “We will support Israel, a two-state solution, building our embassy also in Jerusalem—those things that we look forward to being able to accomplish with this peace-seeking nation, and they have a track record of being able to forge these peace agreements.  They succeeded with Jordan; they succeeded with Egypt. I’m sure that we are going to see more success there also.  It’s got to be a commitment of the United States of America, though, and I can promise you in a McCain-Palin administration that commitment is there to work with our friends in Israel.”

Biden responded that he is a close friend of Israel’s and “I would never ever have joined this ticket were I not absolutely sure that Barack Obama shared my passion.”  Concerning the Bush administration’s policy in the Middle East, said Biden, “it has been an abject failure, this administration’s policy.  In fairness to Secretary Rice , she is trying to turn it around now, in the seventh or eighth year.”

Biden then ticked off some objections.  About Bush he said, “he insisted on elections on the West Bank (meaning Gaza), when I and others said, and Barack Obama said, ‘it would be a big mistake, Hamas will win and you will legitimize them.’ What happened?  Hamas won.”  Concerning Lebanon, he said, “when along with France, we kicked Hezbollah— (did he mean the PLO, or Fatah?)—out of Lebanon, I said and Barack said ‘move NATO forces in there, fill the vacuum, because if you don’t Hezbollah will control it.’ Now what has happened?  Hezbollah is a legitimate part of the government in the country immediately to the north of Israel. The fact of the matter is the policy of this administration has been a major failure….”

Rather than freedom being on the march in the Middle East, said Biden, “the only thing that has been on the march is Iran… Its proxies have a major stake in Lebanon as well as the Gaza Strip with Hamas. We will change this policy with thoughtful…diplomacy that understands that you must back Israel and letting them negotiate. Support their negotiation and stand with them, and not insist on policies that this administration has.”

Asked for rebuttal, Palin said she did not believe Bush’s policies failed.  Then she added; “But I am encouraged that we both support Israel, and I think that is good thing to agree on, Senator Biden…”  She then accused the Biden-Obama ticket of “constantly looking backwards and pointing fingers and doing the blame game.”

Biden responded that he hasn’t heard anything how McCain’s policies are going to be any different on Iran than George Bush’s.  “I haven’t heard how his policies will be different with Israel than George Bush’s. I haven’t heard how his policy on Afghanistan is going to be different than George Bush’s…I haven’t heard on his policy on Pakistan is going to be different than George Bush’s.”

Ifill asked the two vice presidential candidates to decide which was more dangerous—a nuclear Iran or an unstable Pakistan.  Biden said both were “extremely dangerous” but that he has been more focused on Pakistan in that “Pakistan already has nuclear weapons. Pakistan already has deployed nuclear weapons.  Pakistan’s weapons can already hit Israel and the Mediterranean.”  In contrast, he said, Iran is not close to getting nuclear weapons that can be deployed.  He went on to say that Pakistan and Afghanistan are the places where Al Qaeda is headquartered, and that the United States needs to help Pakistan establish a stable government with a stable economy. Furthermore, he said, the United States should build schools along the border of the two countries to counter Al Qaeda-backed schools in an effort  “to compete for the hearts and minds of the people of the region.”

Agreeing that an unstable Pakistan and a nuclear Iran are both “extremely dangerous,” Palin held with McCain’s view that Iraq, not Afghanistan, is the central arena of the war on terror.  She went on to say that a “ nuclear armed Iran is so extremely dangerous to Israel, they cannot be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons—period.” She quoted Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as calling Israel a “stinking corpse” and calling for it to be “wiped off the map,” and reopened the debate over whether Obama had blundered by saying he would sit down with Iran without pre-conditions. 

“An issue like that taken up by a presidential candidate goes beyond naivete, it goes beyond bad judgment; a statement he makes like that is downright dangerous because leaders like Ahmadinejad who would seek to acquire nuclear weapons and wipe off the face of the earth an ally like we have in Israel should not be met with, without preconditions and diplomatic efforts being undertaken first,” Palin declared.

Biden responded that Obama didn’t say he wanted to meet with Ahmadinejad, but rather with the leaders of Iran.  “It surprises me that Senator McCain does not realize that Ahmadinejad does not control the security apparatus in Iran, the theocracy controls the security apparatus.”

Harrison may be contacted at editor@sandiegojewishworld.com



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By Ira Forman

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The 2008 presidential campaign will be remembered as a year in which the McCain campaign and its GOP supporters reached new depths of cynicism when attacking the candidacies of Senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden.  Yet in this year of sleazy campaign tactics, (see the McCain’s campaign claim that Senator Obama wants to teach sex education to kindergarteners) the Republican Jewish Coalitions (RJC) ads in Jewish newspapers stand out for their hypocrisy and the blatant disregard for truth.

The latest in their series of mud-slinging attack ads highlights five so-called “advisors” to Obama and points out their dubious associations.  The first problem with this ad is that it mischaracterizes the attitudes of some of these individuals.  Many of us may disagree with Robert Malley or David Bonior on certain policy matters, but to call them “anti-Israel Arab supporters” is over the top, hurtful and shameful.  The second problem with this ad is that the majority of these people are not policy advisors to Obama and none of these five individuals have anything to do with advising Obama on Israel-related matters.  RJC will not print who actually advises Obama on the U.S.-Israel relationship because they all have impeccable pro-Israel credentials.

That’s the essence of the RJC campaign against Obama— guilt by association.  For at least forty years, the pro-Israel community has had objective standards to judge whether candidates for President are supportive of the U.S.-Israel relationship.  Those standards were to, first and most importantly, examine the candidate’s voting record on issues like foreign aid, arm sales to hostile Arab states and attitudes towards issues like Hamas’ support for terrorism.  By this first standard Obama’s four year record in the U.S. Senate and as well as his record in the Illinois Senate have been outstanding.  The second means by which we judge candidates is to examine the candidates’ public statements over the years.  Here again, going back to Obama’s first years in politics in the mid 1990s one can only find statements that are supportive of the U.S.-Israel relationship.

Guilt by association is a seriously flawed method of determining a candidate’s policy views toward Israel.  There are literally thousands of friends or supporters of each candidate.  It is not difficult for opposition research to comb through these associations and come up with someone who is less than “kosher” on almost any issue— it is like shooting ducks in a barrel.  That is why the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) does not use guilt by association against Senator John McCain in our ads or other educational tools.

However, if the RJC insists on this standard to judge Obama then they should apply the same standard to the GOP standard bearers.  For example, the RJC claims Zbigniew Brzezinski is an advisor to Obama.  How do they explain  McCain’s comments the last time he ran for President that on foreign policy one of “the best minds I know” and someone he would consult with is Zbigniew Brzezinski?

Moreover, how do they explain McCain’s statement to Israeli press that he would send “the smartest guy I know” to the Middle East, “Brent Scowcroft, or Jim Baker, though I know that you in Israel don’t like Baker”?  Or how do they defend the selection as national finance co-chairman, Fred Malek?  The same Fred Malek who was tasked by then President Richard Nixon to dig up all the Jews in the Bureau of Labor Statistics so they could then be fired.  Or what do they say when it is pointed out that McCain’s Chief Economic Advisor, Carly Fiorina, was the CEO of Hewlett-Packard when the company was surreptitiously working to circumvent the prohibition of selling certain technology to Iran?

We could, of course, go on and on with our questions for the Republican Jewish mouthpieces both about McCain’s advisors as well as Governor Sarah Palin’s associations.  That is how guilt by association works. It is a flawed method of analysis because you can always find people “associated” with the candidate or campaign that you disagree with. So with this type of standard any candidate can be shown to be anti-Israel.

In 1954 Senator Joe McCarthy was finally brought down in the public’s eye when Counsel to the Army, Joseph Welch asked the following questions to McCarthy in a nationally televised congressional hearing: “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”

As the RJC plumbs the depths of the political sewer with their anti-Obama smear campaign perhaps we can ask of them the same questions.

Ira N. Forman is Executive Director of the National Jewish Democratic Council

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By Sheila Orysiek

SAN DIEGO—As a Libra, I think it is wonderfully fitting that the High Holy Days, when we are asked to weigh our spiritual life, occur at the same time of year as the astrological sign for Libra:  the scales.  

When we weigh our physical selves and the number of pounds distresses us, all sorts of defenses kick in - such as “my clothes must weigh at least ten pounds.”  However, to prove this we seldom undress.  If we are not happy with what the scale tells us, the answer is simple (not easy, but simple) the intake must be less than the output.

But during these High Holy Days we are weighing our actions, intentions, commissions and omissions - undressed.   Defenses are useless; we stand metaphorically naked.  Not only is examination necessary, but redress in the form of apology, recompense, and repentance. 

Most religions, Judaism included, set a standard of behavior - how to live a positive life - or at least how to approach that ideal.  The problem which then arises is that no human being truly accomplishes the task.  Thus, religion has to give the adherent a “way out” (atoning for and casting off sin) and a “way back” (repentance and a clean slate).  Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are Judaism’s answer to the problem - a weighing of the past year’s transgressions and a way forward.

One of the wisest of Judaism’s tenets is not to count thoughts as sin, only actions.  This is a great relief!  For the most part though we often are aghast at the thoughts which assail us and it is the rejection of those thoughts which is the test of character.  I have to admit (at this time of admissions) that the thoughts which pop unbidden into one’s consciousness seem to come from another woof and warp - and yet there they are inside our heads.  But though they are dismaying - if they are eschewed - rejected - one doesn’t have to atone for them. 

The other side of the coin is the sins that are committed against us.  The Rabbi says that should someone come to us and apologize three times, we are religiously obligated to forgive or else we take on the sin of not forgiving.  But he also says we are not obligated to forget - and therefore gain wisdom.  How to achieve the separation between “forgetting” and “forgiving” is the problem.  I have found this “forgetting” very difficult.  Since I can’t completely reorder how I feel about a person who has purposefully injured me, or control how I think about such a person, I have tried to concentrate on how I act toward this person. 

Initially I saw this as a burden; the person sinned against me and I was left with the problem of forgiving.  I have learned that this is not the correct way of seeing it.  It’s not a problem - it’s an opportunity to learn and grow.  Though someone else committed the sin, if I do this right - I can benefit and grow - by getting past the emotion of hurt.  That’s the task for this coming year. 

In spite of all this work on the non-physical self, as human beings we do need a physical context to help us on the “way back.”  Temple Emanu-El and Tifereth Israel congregations came together on Tuesday evening, Sept. 30, 2008, at Lake Murray to physically cast away sins.  After a short service by Rabbi Martin S. Lawson and Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal and lots of singing with musical accompaniment we threw breadcrumbs into the water carrying off our sins. 

In order to reach the lake edge in this part of the park, one must climb down a bit on some fairly precarious rocks (less precarious if one is younger).  How emblematic of the task!  It’s a rocky thing to honestly confront one’s sins.  Hopefully, though few of us set out purposefully to harm another person, temptation sometimes blinds us with the momentary triumph of “gotcha” and then gives us a year of regret.  We don’t like having to look back and see such a view of ourselves. 

The sin of omission is much more difficult - could we have helped someone who needed it - but didn’t?  It is a balancing act (those scales, again) of how much to share, how much to inconvenience or even divest ourselves of some material object or comfort.  Sometimes we are afraid that if we give a little, the demand will increase beyond our capability and scope. 

This brings me to the sin of fear.  This is part of the sin of omission - not helping when we could have, not allowing someone who needs us to enter our fortress and not taking the time to simply “be there.”  We often fear contact; another person’s neediness can be repelling - fearful.  Like a disease we might catch or a contagion we won’t be able to control.  Give someone a ride who can’t drive - and perhaps they’ll constantly demand transportation.  But because we say “yes” when we are able to help, doesn’t mean we can’t say “no” when we are unable.  Too often we fear the guilt of saying “no” when we must and so don’t ever say “yes.”  I have a problem with this.

In Torah Study the Rabbi spoke of being obligated to intercede when someone is observed harming another person.  One member of the group responded and likened such interference to “playing G-D.”  The Rabbi immediately rejected this as an excuse for failing to stop someone from hurting another - a sin of omission.  One must do this carefully - privately if possible - publicly if necessary.  To observe someone harming another and then walking away would take more than breadcrumbs as atonement. 

The difficulty of interceding is recognized in our legal code such as when someone, like a teacher, suspects child abuse at home - it must be reported.   The many “good Samaritan” laws enacted by all 50 states are another attempt to protect someone interceding to save a life.

Abuse is not always physical - it can be material, or emotional, or taking advantage of another person when given the opportunity.  Though someone else may have instigated the situation we are not absolved of guilt if we take advantage of it.  If the advantage is in the form of material gain - at what cost does it come?  Is a relationship lost?  Is someone hurt - even though our participation was only peripheral?  Aiding and abetting injury is part of the spiritual reckoning - and recognized in the legal code.

Suppose you get too much change when you pay for something - either $5.00 or $500.00.  Would one return the $500.00 as readily as the $5.00?  Does it make a difference if the extra change comes from an individual or a large corporate source such as a big store?  How does one quantify one’s honesty?  It’s not possible to be a honest, but only up to a point. 

So what to think about while standing on the rocks at the edge of the lake, breadcrumbs in hand? 

I want to be a person who would never purposefully hurt another.

I pray for the insight to realize when my words or actions have - though unintentional - injured someone else.

I hope for the strength of character to not only forgive, but to also forget.

And finally, on a lighter note……there were a lot of happy water fowl at the lake - growing fat on bread crumbs.  As a Libra, it seemed to me, the atonement for sins and the happy water fowl made for a good balancing act.

Orysiek may be contacted at orysieks@sandiegojewishworld.com. Her art work, above, is entitled "At the Wall."

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SAN DIEGO (Press Release)—Hebrew Day's budding young artists have been working very diligently on their Rosh Hashanah projects with some incredible results…
• Kindergarteners crafted their very own ceramic honey jars and spoons.
• First graders used several tones of gold, white, silver, and copper fabric liners on cotton to fabricate their absolutely stunning Challah covers
• Second graders made golden coiled honey pots and special spoons
• Third graders made exquisite detailed honey bowls set on an apple plate
• Fourth graders tried their hand at decoupage on glass honey jars and adorned these with gold and silver liners and beads
• Fifth graders were really successful at a very challenging project. They created hollow balls out of two clay pinch pots, fashioned them into their choice of apple and then slit them to form a lid and base. They glazed the apple colors and each one is truly a masterpiece
• Art elective students made the same hollow circles out of clay to make pomegranates which were then painted in shades of shiny red

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How to embrace life in the midst of loss

By Sara Appel-Lennon

SAN DIEGO—Recently I found myself grieving due to the losses of relatives and friends. Feeling compelled to make sense of it; I turned for a second time, to Rabbi Harold Kushner's book, When Bad Things Happen to Good People.

Kushner believes that events happen randomly.  They just happen and there is no explanation why.  He believes that God does not have control over everything. When good things happen, it is not God's will. and when bad things happen, it is not God's will either.

While insurance companies refer to deadly hurricanes and fires as "acts of God," I agree with Kushner, they would more appropriately be called "acts of nature" or "natural disasters." I don’t believe that God rewards or punishes us due to our behaviors. Kushner's belief is that. God is not pleased when tragedy strikes.

I used to question, how can there be a God if the Holocaust took place. Kushner addresses this by stating that God gave us free will. As a result, we have the choice to behave as evil beasts and hurt each other or behave as angels and help each other. Even during the Holocaust, there were those who gave their last piece of bread to help another, and those who hid Jews from the Nazis.
thus saving their lives, while risking their own.

Kushner believes that God gives us strength and renewed hope to handle what ever happens in our lives. With this renewed hope and sense of a caring community we can become resilient to what ever happens.

It's helpful to note that Judaism is life affirming. The Mourner's Kaddish is about thanking God for the gift of life. Eulogies at funerals are about how the person lived, not how he/she died.  According to Jewish tradition, love transcends death. While our eyes can no longer see our loved one, our heart still clings to their memory.

As part of my own grieving, I found it helpful to learn about grief. Recognizing grief for what it is, helped me to address it.

In her book, On Death and Dying, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross talks about the five stages of grief.:

1. Denial,-This isn't happening.
2. Anger -Why me?
3. Bargaining –Negotiating with God. I'll do this if God does that
4. Depression, -I don't care.
5. Acceptance.-Acknowledging the death and choosing to live fully.

When my friend, Martha, died, I sought out a bereavement group. This was a safe place to share with others, facing the same emotions. I discovered I was not alone. Other people were grieving and the grief would lessen over time. I would discover a new way to approach life. It would be OK.

When someone who I know dies, I feel better when I send a sympathy card to the family. It's a gesture to comfort the bereaved and remind them that they are not alone. When I make a Shiva visit, I show that I share their loss.

I handle my grief by getting back to basics:  making sure that I get enough rest, exercise, and eating nutritious food. Staying connected to a community reminds me that although there was a recent death, I am still alive.
 
Two movies come to mind when I think of how to embrace life in the midst of loss. In Monty Python and the Holy Grail., the undertaker is collecting all of the dead bodies in a wheel barrow. He starts to collect a body when the man says "But I'm not dead yet."

 Sleepless in Seattle, is about a young husband whose wife recently died. A friend asks him what he will do now. He says "I'm going to breathe in and out."

When you're grieving, know that the depth of your despair will fade with time. It is possible to keep your loved one's memories close to your heart while still participating in life. Grief, like a wave, ebbs and flows. When the current of grief pulls you under, remember to come up for air, take your life breaths, and start swimming with the current to shore.

Sara Appel-Lennon is a freelance writer based in San Diego. She may be contacted at appels@jewishsightseeing.com



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By Lynne Thrope

SAN DIEGO - As you read this, some of San Diego’s top chefs are preparing for the 13th Annual Chef Celebration held throughout the month of October. Chef Celebration, a nonprofit organization striving to lay a foundation of excellence for San Diego’s dining community, is a collaborative effort by more than 30 award-winning local chefs who donate their talent, time and energy to raise money for a culinary scholarship program at the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) Greystone in Napa, California.

To raise money for these scholarships, every Tuesday throughout October, teams of chefs will join forces to present sumptuous five and six-course dinners at some of our city’s finest restaurants including Terra, Bernard’O, Pamplemousse Grille, Thee Bungalow, and Trattoria Acqua.. All chefs will contribute one of their signature recipes and throughout the dinner will make special appearances to meet the guests.  I attended the first dinner at Terra Restaurant in Hillcrest’s Uptown Shopping Center hosted by Jeff Rossman (my fellow congregant at Temple Emanu-El) and sampled his two newest creations, a Basil Flan with Shallot Rings and a Quince Tart Tartin dollopped with Butternut Squash Ice Cream.  Hopefully, Jeff will take my advice and that of my dinner companion and make them both standard menu items.

“Chef Celebration is not only a great opportunity for diners to enjoy a delectable five or six-course dinner, it passes on a tradition of learning and support to promising young chefs,” said Jeff Rossman. “Through educational partners such as San Diego Culinary Institute, Chef Celebration offers new opportunities for aspiring students and culinary professionals who want to become the best in the profession.”

Chef Celebration dinners are being offered with a $65 donation per person, $35 of which will go towards the nonprofit scholarship fund. For menu information and reservations, contact host restaurants directly by phone or email. 

Tuesday, October 7th – Bernard’O (858) 487-7171; 12457 Rancho Bernardo Rd. San Diego, CA 92128; Patrick Ponsaty, Bernard’O; Vincent Grumel, Vincent’s Sireno; Steven Rojas, El Bizcocho; Jonathen Freyberg, Bernard’O; and Loic Laffargue, Barona Resort & Casino

Tuesday, October 14th – Pamplemousse Grille (858) 792-9090;   514 Via de la Valle, Solana Beach, CA 92075; Brian Malarkey, Oceanaire Seafood Room; Tommy DiMella, Pamplemousse;
Ryan Harris, Pamplemousse; Paul McCabe, J Taylor’s L’Auberge Del Mar; Jim Phillips, Barona Resort & Casino

Tuesday, October 21st – Trattoria Acqua, (858) 454-0709; 1298 Prospect Street, La Jolla, CA 92037; Domaso Lee, Trattoria Acqua; Tony DiSalvo, Jack’s La Jolla; Jason Knibb, Nine-Ten;
Orion Balliet, Azul La Jolla; Amy Dibiase, Roseville

Tuesday, October 28th – Thee Bungalow (619) 224.-2884;   4996 West Pt. Loma Blvd., San Diego, CA 92107; Paul Niles, Thee Bungalow; Danny Bannister, Red Marlin; Brian Freerkson, Baleen; Dave Warner, JRDN

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Attention lovers of classical music! This non-profit organization is raising money to expose at-risk students to the academic benefits of classical music.  Classics 4 Kids, a committed organization who has served 22,000 students around the county, has enlisted 12 of San Diego’s finest chefs from some of San Diego’s finest restaurants to donate their time, talent, and ingredients to prepare 4-course dinners ($150pp) in private homes. On Sunday November 9, my home will be open to you, dear readers, where Javier Placencia, Executive Chef and Owner of Romesco Restaurante in Bonita will be cooking up a storm. Reservations can be made by calling Laurie at 619.435.9111. For more information about this organization and event, visit www.Classics4Kids.com.

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