BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

An Interview with Historian Michael Oren on the Tangled Web of US Involvement from the age of Jefferson to Today by Michael J. Totten MJT: So tell us, Michael, why does America’s involvement in the Middle East 200 years ago matter today? What does it have to do with September 11 and Iraq? Oren: Well it matters, Michael, because many of the same issues that Americans are facing today in the Middle East were confronted by America’s founding fathers – Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, George Washington. For example, they had to confront the issue of state-sponsored terrorism in the Middle East. They had to face a threat to the United States, and decide whether to generate military power and then project that power thousands of miles from the United States. They had to decide whether to involve the United States in an open-ended and rather expensive bloody war in the Middle East. This was, of course, the Barbary War, America’s first overseas military engagement and America’s longest overseas m...

Denver Date: Monday, January 5, 2009 Time: 5:30 pm Location: Hebrew Educational Alliance Street: 3600 South Ivanhoe, Denver New York Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009 Time: 12:30 pm Location: Across from Israeli Consulate in New York Street: E 42nd Street @ 2nd Avenue Washington D.C. Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009 Time: 12:30 pm Location: Outside Israeli Embassy Street: 3514 International Dr. NW Los Angeles Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009 Time: 4:30 pm Location: In front of the Israeli Consulate in L.A. Street: La Jolla & Wilshire Los Angeles Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2009 Time: 12 pm - 2:00 pm Location: Federal Building in Westwood L.A. Street: Veteran and Wilshire StandWithUs, Bnei Akiva and the ILC in cooperation with the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles, and Jewish Day Schools across Los Angeles, invite you to STAND IN SUPPORT OF ISRAEL's RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF AGAINST HAMAS Washington D.C. Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2009 Time: 12:00 p.m. Location: Sixth & I Historic Syn...

BE AN ANGEL TO A SOLDIER As I have said many times on this blog, whether or not you agree with the War - our men & women in the military deserve and need our support. To that end I am sharing a great site that has a variety of ways you can support our soldiers while they are serving our great country: Soldiers' Angels was started by a self-described ordinary mother of an ordinary young man turned hero, Sgt. Brandon Varn. Brandon was deployed in Iraq and has since honorably completed his mission and has returned back to his proud and loving family. In the summer of 2003, he wrote home expressing his concern that some soldiers did not receive any mail or support from home. Being a caring and loving mother, she decided not to allow a situation like that to continue. She contacted a few friends and extended family to ask if they would write to a soldier or two. Within a few short months, Soldiers' Angels went from a mother writing a few extra letters to an Internet Community...