NEW YORK (Press Release)–The judges have ruled and this year’s top five finalists for the Jewish Community Hero Award given out by the Jewish Federations of North America are: Dmitriy Salita, Jay Feinberg, Mordechai Tokarsky, Stephen Kutner and Zvi Gluck. More than 300,000 votes were cast in this year’s contest and the finalists will now […]
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USAJERUSALEM (WJC)–The Jewish Agency for Israel has earmarked US$ 4.7 million to help bring the remaining 8,700 Ethiopians claiming Jewish ancestry and seeking to make aliyah to Israel. The vote at the organization’s Board of Governors meeting in Jerusalem was held in anticipation of a cabinet meeting set to take place early next week, in
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Middle EastWEXFORD, Ireland(WJC) — A slaughterhouse here that supplies meat to many London-area stores has stopped kosher slaughter following a protest by the fast food chain McDonald’s, the ‘Jewish Chronicle’ reports. McDonald’s has been under fire in recent days following media reports that halal meat, which is ritually slaughtered for Muslims, is used by some of the
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Travel and FoodCAPE TOWN, South Africa (WJC)– The retired Anglican archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu has urged the Cape Town Opera to abandon an upcoming trip to Israel, saying that Palestinians would not have equal access to the performance. “Cape Town Opera should postpone its proposed tour next month until both Israeli and Palestinian opera
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C (WJC)–Holocaust survivors from the former Yugoslavia have accused the Vatican Bank of helping Nazi allies launder their stolen valuables and asked the European Commission to investigate their claims, the news agency ‘Bloomberg’ reports. “We are requesting the commission open an inquiry into allegations of money laundering of Holocaust victim assets by financial organs associated with,
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Saving Henry: A Mother’s Journey by Laurie Strongin, Hyperion, 2010, 271 pages including epilogue, $22.99. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—When Laurie Strongin comes to speak at 4 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 9, at the Lawrence Family JCC, many in the San Diego Jewish Book Fair audience will attend not only to meet an author, but
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By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — A few weeks ago, we noted the impending $60 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia, plus $35 billion to $40 billion in contracts signed by the UAE, Oman’s expected $12 billion purchase and $7 billion in planned purchases by Kuwait. We were amused by State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley’s
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By Cynthia Citron BURBANK, California — There are certain witches that everyone remembers. Macbeth’s three brewed toil and trouble in a steaming cauldron. Bewitched’s Elizabeth Montgomery did the dishes by twitching her nose. The Wicked Witch of the West melted when Dorothy threw a bucket of water on her. But unless you are a movie
TEL AVIV (Press Release)― Most babies are delivered head-first, but in about 4% of all deliveries babies are “born breech” ― with their buttocks or feet first. Doctors usually exercise caution and use caesarean sections (C-sections) as the delivery method of choice for such births, believing it safer for the baby. After a large-scale
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Science, Medicine, & EducationNEW YORK (Press Release)– A new cohort of 25 congregations from Judaism’s Conservative Movement will enroll in The Jewish Theological Seminary’s groundbreaking Mitzvah Initiative this fall, joining the nearly 50 synagogues, Solomon Schechter day schools, and Ramah camps already involved with the program, among them Tifereth Israel Synagogue in San Diego. The 2010–2011 cohort includes
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By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — What could be more routine than those little notes countries send other countries to say Happy Birthday? Yet even here there’s a sort of strangeness about the current U.S. government’s approach to the Middle East . On October 25, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sent national day greetings to
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International, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Congressman Brad Sherman applauded Secretary of Education Arne Duncan for agreeing to return to its 2004 policy and applying Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to the protection of Jewish students from anti-Semitism on campuses. “For two years, I have been pushing the U.S. Department of Education to adopt this
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. — The wife of a Jewish American aid worker jailed in Havana for allegedly being a spy has written a letter to Cuban President Raúl Castro expressing regret for his actions. The ‘Reuters’ news agency also reported that Judy Gross, wife of US Agency for International Development employee Alan Gross, had claimed President
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Travel and FoodBERLIN (WJC)–A task force of historians commissioned in 2005 by then German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer has found that during the Nazi-era many diplomats at the Foreign Office were in the Holocaust and covered up their involvement in the crimes after the end of World War II. Fischer said he was “disgusted” by the revelations.
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