NEW YORK (Press Release)– Heads of Jewish communities from around the world will gather in Jerusalem for a meeting of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) Governing Board on 31 August and 1 September 2010. The gathering will focus on ways to fight the growing threats against Israel. It will be addressed by senior statesmen from […]
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Middle EastHAIFA (Press Release) – The Maccabi Haifa professional basketball team of the Israeli Basketball Super League, announced on Thursday that the team will host a special preseason basketball clinic and scrimmage on Saturday, September 4 at the Nesher Sports Hall in Nesher, Israel, headlined by current NBA All-Star Dwight Howard of the Orlando Magic. Maccabi
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Middle East, USASINGAPORE (WJC)– At the Youth Olympics, officials of the Iranian team have reportedly forced a 16 year-old taekwondo fighter to withdraw because he was pitted against an Israeli competitor, Gili Haimovitz, in the final. Mohammed Soleimani withdrew from the final, saying he had a leg injury. He was also absent from the medal ceremony as
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Middle EastLONDON (WJC)–The editors of the BBC television program ‘Panorama’ have issued a strong rebuff to viewers who claimed that a report into the Israeli flotilla raid in May, entitled ‘Death in the Med and broadcast on Monday, had been biased in Israel’s favor. Pro-Palestinian groups attacked the BBC for its criticism of those onboard the
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Middle EastNEW YORK (WJC)–The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is collecting funds to help the victims of the devastating floods in Pakistan with food, clothing, medicine and other necessities. Flooding began about three weeks ago and has affected an estimated 170 million people in Pakistan. The United Nations has described Pakistan’s worst humanitarian crisis as
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Middle East, USABy David Amos SAN DIEGO –From the title of this article, you may surmise that I will be sharing with you some conducting and/or recording adventure in a far-away land. But this time, it is not the case, but rather, a two-week vacation just completed, which my wife and I survived with our two grandchildren,
Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Southwestern Jewish Press, January 7, 1955, Page 7 1955 is the beginning of another year, Here’s hoping it will be with filled with good luck and good cheer Starting off the holiday season was the annual Hi-Debber Ball which many of the our “Kosher Krowd” attended and
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By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –It isn’t exactly Iran’s Bushehr reactor that is making people really nervous this week, and it isn’t exactly the Russians. It is the understanding that no matter what the United States and the West say about Iran with nuclear technology, Iran is moving toward the acquisition of nuclear weapons technology
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The issue of the New York City mosque near ground zero has awakened discussion of that big gorilla in the American living room. Despite all the platitudes slung back and forth about religious freedom and the separation of church and state, and the assertion that the problem of terror is not Islam,
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM– Israel and Palestine may be inching, crawling, or sidestepping toward direct, face to face negotiations. We have heard this before. It is a long and contorted road even to the beginning of talks. Neither side appears to be enthusiastic. They are being pushed by the pathetically naive, led by the champion
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By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO–Miriam, a prophet in Israel, led the dancing and singing after safely crossing through the parted sea. As a girl she had watched what happened to the basket containing her baby brother, and had the courage to speak to the Princess of Egypt suggesting that she find a nurse (Jochebed) for the
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Middle East‘Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them volley’d and thunder’d; Storm’d at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred.’ – from The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Middle East, USACHICO, California (Press Release) — Scholars for Peace in the Middle East was made aware of the Globes report of August 15, 2010 which indicated that the Harvard Management Company had sold it’s Israel holdings, which immediately made its way to a number of anti-Israel organizations and websites. SPME, in concert with members of its Boycott,
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Middle EastANKARA (WJC)–Israel’s envoy to Turkey has not been invited to an ‘iftar’ dinner hosted by PM Erdogan’s party for representatives of the diplomatic corps in Turkey. Ambassador Gabi Levi did not receive an invitation to Ramadan fast-breaking dinner, to which all senior diplomats in Turkey have been invited for the past four years. The dinner is hosted
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