Middle East

By Rabbi Dow Marmur TORONTO–A scandalous aspect of virtually all religions has been their treatment of women. My own has shunned many excesses — stoning for alleged adultery, so-called honour killings or officially putting the ordination of women in the same category as pedophilia — but it nevertheless has a history of embarrassing discrimination. One […]

JERUSALEM (WJC)–Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has met with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou in Jerusalem. Both leaders agreed a tightening of relations between the two Mediterranean nations. The visit came at a time of crisis in the once-warm relationship between Israel and Greece’s arch-rival Turkey. “At the end of the meeting they agreed to

ANKARA (WJC)–An Israeli women’s volleyball team was assailed by protestors while playing against Serbia in the Turkish capital Ankara on Saturday. Rioters carrying Palestinian flags clashed with a large police force deployed at the event. The match was closed to the public because of security concerns. Authorities in Ankara imposed heavy security on the European

Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Society News Southwestern Jewish Press, October 15, 1954, Page 3 Nathan Halle, 84 years “young,” has just returned from a three month’s vacation in Europe and the East Coast. * It won’t be all work for Carl Esenoff when he attends the annual meeting of the American Institute

RAMALLAH (WJC)–Organizers of a Palestinian music festival have prevented the music band Boney M to perform one of its greatest hits because the song refers to the exiled Jewish people’s yearning to return to the biblical land of Israel. Lead singer Maizie Williams said Palestinian concert organizers told her not to sing the 1970s hit