WASHINGTON, D.C (WJC)–James von Brunn, the 89-year-old white supremacist accused of killing a security guard at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, has died. He was wounded in the attack he perpetrated on 10 June 2009, when guards returned fire after he had gone on a shooting rampage. However, the cause of death […]
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USABAGHDAD (WJC)–Iraq is planning to sue Israel for bombing its nuclear reactor at Osirak nearly three decades ago. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has instructed his Foreign Ministry to find out from the United Nations whether it can receive compensation from Israel. Israel’s Air Force bombed the reactor, which had not yet gone on line,
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Middle EastJERUSALEM (WJC)–Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon has said that peace talks with the Palestinians were not likely to resume in the coming weeks. “Instead of moving toward negotiations, the Palestinians just attack Israel in the world,” Ayalon said at a gathering of the Israel Council for Foreign Relations in Jerusalem, which is sponsored by
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press release)–In a brief detailing the “serious threat” of armed violence by extremists and extremist groups, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to ensure that states retain the right to reasonably regulate the possession of firearms by those who practice and preach racial and ethnic violence. “We have placed
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – The Justice Department announced that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian national, was charged Wednesday in a six-count criminal indictment returned in the Eastern District of Michigan for his alleged role in the attempted Christmas day bombing of Northwest Airlines flight 253 from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to Detroit. Count one of the indictment
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RIBBON CUTTING—Ruthie Goltz and representatives of JNF, Sha’ar Hanegev municipality, and the Ministry of Tourism cut the ribbon in front of the renovated area at the site of the first settlers of the Negev. ___________________________________________________________ By Ulla Hadar KIBBUTZ RUHAMA, Israel–On the first day of Chanukah, in December 1911, Ruhama farm was founded on lands
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Middle EastThe holidays and their music, Part I By David Amos SAN DIEGO–In the last issue, I talked about the music we hear for the Christmas holidays, where Hannukah fits in (or doesn’t), and on the larger picture, the place of Jewish Music in the concert hall. While we accept with pleasure the presentation of non-Jewish religious
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Middle East, USAThe Jewish Body by Melvin Konner, Nextbook, New York; ISBN 978-0-8052-4236-2, $22.00, 255 pages * By Fred Reiss, Ed.D WINCHESTER, California–The Jewish people are obsessed with the body. While the Sumerians, Egyptians, Canaanites, and others prayed and sacrificed to idols, the embodiment of their gods, the Hebrews announced to the world that God is invisible.
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Fred Reiss, EdD, Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Republican Jewish Coalition Executive Director Matthew Brooks released the following statement on Wednesday: “The sense that Democrat incumbents are abandoning a sinking ship was strengthened by the announcements that Democrat Senators Chris Dodd (CT) and Byron Dorgan (ND) will not seek re-election this year. This brings the number of
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USAJERUSALEM (Press Release)–The municipality of Jerusalem has approved construction of four apartment buildings next to a Jewish seminary in the eastern part of the city. “As far as the municipality is concerned, building can begin,” a spokesman for Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat said after a planning committee gave the go-ahead on Monday for the complex
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Middle EastJERUSALEM (WJC)—Mayor Nir Barkat of Jerusalem has announced that he would petition the High Court against an election process which is likely to lead to the appointment of two ultra-Orthodox chief rabbis for the city. Barkat said 70 percent of Jerusalem’s population was not haredi. On Sunday, a five-man committee, including three haredi members from the
NORWICH, Vermont (WJC)–Freya von Moltke, a prominent member of Germany’s anti-Nazi resistance during World War II, has died at the age of 98 at her home in Vermont. She belonged to a group of aristocrats, clerics and diplomats who backed the failed attempt to kill Nazi dictator Hitler with a bomb in July 1944. The
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USABy Rabbi Philip Graubart LA JOLLA, California–Who is the most influential writer for American Jews? To my mind, it’s Daniel Gordis, the American-born rabbi, writing from Israel. Gordis grabs his readers with passionate, cogent arguments, but also through his chosen medium: emails, which fly through cyberspace, landing in tens of thousands (or more) inboxes, provoking
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Prime Minister Netanyahu isn’t specific and doesn’t exactly endorse the upbeat news that comes from Cairo, and perhaps also from Washington, that speaks not only of the imminent resumption of peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians but also the possibility of a deal within a couple of years. But he doesn’t
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