By Yvonne Greenberg LA JOLLA, California–The film Brothers won last year’s Audience Choice Award in two European countries, and best actress and actor in another overseas location. Now the film in Hebrew and Spanish with English subtitles will be shown at the 20th Annual San Diego Jewish Film Festival (sponsored by the Mizel Family Foundation) at the AMC […]
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release) –The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday renewed its concern that Turkish society is becoming increasingly and openly hostile to Jews and Israel – with harmful statements by government officials and hateful depictions in the mass media. “We continue to be concerned about a new environment in Turkey which permits and
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Cerbalus aravensis (Photo by Roy Talbi) ________________________________________________________________ HAIFA (Press Release)–A new and previously unknown species of spider has been discovered in the dune of the Sands of Samar in the southern Arava region by a team of scientists from the Department of Biology in the University of Haifa-Oranim. Unfortunately, however, its habitat is endangered. “The
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__________________________________________________________________ HAIFA (Press Release)–Soraya Nazarian, wife of businessman Younes Nazarian, donated a sculpture that she herself designed and created to the University of Haifa. The marble sculpture, entitled “Legacy”, depicts a ship with sails made of books, expressing the story of the Jews who landed in Israel on the illegal immigration ships (the “Maapilim”). It
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The holiday season is over. The world has gone back to work. Turkey and Israel have spent a few days insulting one another. The President of Turkey accused Israel of attacking Lebanon and overreacting against the Palestinians. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman ordered a retaliation. His deputy summoned the Turkish Ambassador, invited the
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM (Press Release)–Like most people whom I’ve talked to, I’m ignorant about what’s really going on between Israel and Turkey. Of course, that doesn’t stop me – or anybody else for that matter – from commenting on it. It seems quite clear that Turkey has decided to lean toward the East
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Middle EastMUNICH, Germany (WJC) — The alleged Nazi war criminal Ivan Demjanjuk may have his trial postponed after an appeal to the court by his attorney. The 89-year-old Ukrainian-born man is on trial in Munich charged with helping to murder 27,900 Jews at the Sobibor death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. The case resumed
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Middle East, USATEHRAN (WJC)–The Iranian regime has accused Israel and the United States of perpetrating a bomb attack in northern Tehran in which a senior Iranian nuclear scientist, Massoud Ali Mohammadi, was killed on Monday. “One can see in preliminary investigations signs of the triangle of evil of the Zionist regime, America and their mercenaries in Iran
JERUSALEM (WJC)–Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon has apologized to Turkey over what Ankara called the “discourteous” way he had treated the Turkish ambassador in Israel at a summons on Monday. In particular the fact that Ayalon made Ambassador Ahmed Oguz Celikkol sit on a low couch while he sat on a high chair as he
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Middle EastAMMAN, Jordan (WJC)– The Jordanian government has said that the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls were seized illegally by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War and has asked the United Nations for them to be restored to Jordan. “The government has legal documents that prove Jordan owns the scrolls,” a government official in Amman said, adding
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Middle EastJERUSALEM (WJC) — Samuel (Shmuel) Hadas, Israel’s first ambassador to the Holy See in Rome, has died in Jerusalem at the age of 72. In a statement, World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder called Hadas “a pioneer of Jewish-Catholic relations who was not only instrumental in establishing relations between Israel and the Vatican during
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Middle EastJERUSALEM (WJC)–Israel on Monday summoned the Turkish ambassador in Tel Aviv to protest against a television series that depicts Mossad agents as baby-snatchers. Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon told the Turkish envoy that the popular Turkish soap opera ‘Valley of the Wolves: Ambush’ was offensive and “an intolerable situation which endangers the Jewish community, the
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Middle EastAMSTERDAM (WJC)—Miep Gies, the woman who helped the family of Anne Frank to hide from the Nazis and who saved the girl’s diary, has died in the Netherlands at the age of 100, following a brief illness. Gies was the last living member of the group who helped to sustain Anne’s Jewish family between 1942
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Middle EastBy Jay N. Jacobson BOCA RATON, Florida — Last year I went to Washington for the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) Board of Advisors meeting. I was so impressed that in early December this year, my wife Lorita and I went back. It’s an amazing organization. They have instituted many programs that no