Donald H. Harrison

Four companies removed from list of those doing business with Iran

SACRAMENTO (Press Release)–California’s Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced on Tuesday  that the California Department of Insurance (CDI) has removed Royal Dutch Shell (Netherlands), Shell International Finance (Netherlands), Total SA (France), and Repsol YPF (Spain) from the CDI “List of Companies Doing Business with the Iranian Petroleum/Natural Gas, Nuclear, and Defense Sectors.” The CDI initially published its […]

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Travel and Food

Biodegradable plastics made of corn may reduce landfill problems

TEL AVIV (Press Release) ― Environmentalists around the world agree ― plastic bags are choking our landfills  and polluting our seas. Now a Tel Aviv University researcher is developing new laboratory methods using corn starch and sugar to help sustainable plastics –– those that biodegrade and are even tougher than those made from petrochemicals –– compete in

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Science, Medicine, & Education

France’s new foreign minister takes strong stand against Iran

  PARIS (WJC)–French Foreign Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie has told a gathering of the European Jewish Congress (EJC) that “France will take a strong stance against Iran.” She pledged to take a firm position on Tehran’s nuclear ambitions and said all form of economic sanctions would be envisaged if Iran continued to pursue the nuclear program.

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Travel and Food

European Union says no—for now—to Palestininan independence

BRUSSELS (WJC)–The European Union will not recognize Palestinian statehood until an “appropriate” time, the 27 EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels said in a joint statement. It came in response to a letter from Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat to EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, in which he had urged the EU countries to join

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Travel and Food

Time for U.S. and Iraq to regularize military relationship, Mullen tells Malaki

BAGHDAD, Dec. 13 (Press Release) –The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff stressed to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki today that now is the time for the United States and Iraq to plan for a normal, long-term military-to-military relationship. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen met with Maliki at the prime minister’s residence in downtown

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Travel and Food

Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke succumbs to heart attack

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued the following statement in reaction to the death of Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke: “Tonight America has lost one of its fiercest champions and most dedicated public servants. Richard Holbrooke served the country he loved for nearly half a century, representing the United States in far-flung war-zones

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USA

Nietzsche was a philo-Semite, notwithstanding Nazis’ admiration for him

By Barry Rubin   HERZLIYA, Israel — No serious thinker has done more harm to the Jewish people than Friedrich Nietzsche, whose writings were an important inspiration for Adolph Hitler and Nazism. Yet far from being an antisemite, Nietzsche was one of the most pro-Jewish German writers of his time. How can this paradox be

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International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion

Seacrest Village plans Feb. 5 fundraiser on ice

ENCINITAS, California (Press Release)– The Women’s Auxiliary of Seacrest Village Retirement Communities has announced its 33rd Annual Gala, “Champagne on Ice,” which will take place on Saturday, February 5, at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. Event chair Jane Ottenstein, along with Women’s Auxiliary President Mary Epsten, will lead this year’s event committee as they present an

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San Diego Calendar, San Diego County

Rally calls for more international effort to release Gilad Shalit

NEW YORK (WJC)–World Jewish Congress, North America, in cooperation with the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, held a rally in front of the offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to urge increased efforts to achieve the release of Gilad Shalit who has been held captive in the hands of

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USA

Israeli police contingent returns from Haiti relief work

TEL AVIV (WJC) — The last delegation of Israeli police officers has arrived home after patrolling the streets of Haiti for three months. The Israeli deployment followed the devastating earthquake that hit the Caribbean island in January, claiming hundreds of thousands of victims and causing wide-spread devastation. Just two months ago, a cholera epidemic broke

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