JERUSALEM (Press Release)– On Thursday, November 12, Israel took another step in the country’s long history of solidarity with the United States and global victims of terror as international diplomats, U.S. and Israeli politicians and religious leaders unveiled a monument dedicated to the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Commissioned and built by […]
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM—More than 40 years ago I chose public administration as my specialty in political science. I still poke at it, despite being interested in other things as well. Here I will poke at the 2009 Report on International Religious Freedom published by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor of the
VIENNA (WJC)–Iran could have several secret nuclear facilities across the country, according to a new report by the United Nations nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna. IAEA inspectors who visited the recently disclosed underground nuclear enrichment plant near Qom last month said the site was built to hold 3,000 centrifuges,
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Middle East, USABUENOS AIRES (WJC)–Israeli President Shimon Peres and Argentinean President Christina Fernández have met in Buenos Aires. “Argentina does not allow anybody to choose its friends, and it doesn’t choose the friends of others,” Fernández told reporters after meeting, referring to the influence of Iran in Latin America and Tehran’s close relations with Venezuelan President Hugo
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Middle EastNEW YORK (WJC)–A hundred mosques and synagogues throughout North America and Europe took part in the second edition of twinning. The annual event involves meetings between local Muslim and Jewish congregations aimed at launching joint activities. The New York-based Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, founded by Rabbi Marc Schneier, has been organizing the event, which this
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USAWASHINGTON, DC — Rep. Jan Schakowsky, (Democrat-Illinois) released the following statement in response to proposals that Guantanamo Bay deatainees will be relocatoted to a prison in Illinois. “The Guantanamo Bay facility is a recruiting tool for Al Queda and a mark against the morals of the United States. In closing ‘Gitmo’ and moving some detainees to
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Some actors shy from the roles that made them famous. I remember, for example, how Henry Winkler practically growled at reporters at a United Jewish Federation event who wanted to talk about his role as Arthur “The Fonz” Fonzarelli on television’s Happy Days. Not so with actor Armin Shimerman. He said he knows
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Compiled from the Southwestern Jewish Press by Gail Umeham U.J. Fund Winds Up Year’s Activity; Honors Founders Southwestern Jewish Press December 25, 1953 Page 1 Helen Schulman was announced as the “volunteer of the year” by the United Jewish Fund at the 20th Anniversary celebration held in the San Diego Hotel. Mrs. Schulman, mother of
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By David Strom CARDIFF BY THE SEA, California—On a Tuesday evening at Temple Solel, a large crowd came to hear historian and author Mark Rigg talk about his latest book, Lives of Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers. His lecture was well received. Dr. Rigg began his Nov. 3 lecture talking about himself and his background, including his
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_____________________________________________________________ By Jack Forman LA JOLLA, California — Peace will come only when Arabs love their children more than they hate our children” –Golda Meir In a November 9 talk at the San Diego Jewish Book Fair based on his most recent book Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May
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By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM–The 29th of Cheshvan is not a particularly noteworthy day for most Jews in the world. But for Jews from Ethiopia, this date, corresponding this year to November 16, has long been observed as one of their main holidays, known as Sigd–a day celebrating their connection to Jerusalem and commitment
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Middle East, USABy Cynthia Citron HOLLYWOOD–Thirty years after playwright Edward Albee dealt with the demons he encountered in academia during his student days at Trinity College in Hartford by writing the terrifying Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? he dealt with the other demons of his youth in his play Three Tall Women.” He won his third Pulitzer
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Cynthia Citron, USASINGAPORE (WJC)—After talks with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev here, US President Barack Obama has said “time is running out” for Iran to sign on to a deal to ship its enriched uranium out of the country for further processing. “Unfortunately, so far at least, Iran appears to have been unable to say yes to
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USAJERUSALEM (WJC)–Senior Palestinian officials have announced that they would seek a UN Security Council resolution recognizing an independent Palestinian state. Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, told Israeli radio that Palestinians were “fed up with your time-wasting”. He did not give a time frame for the resolution, but said that the state would be along
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