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Middle East Israel/ Palestinian Territories Has U.S. eliminated Israel’s qualitative edge over possible Arab foes? Hamas politician hints of possible change in attitude towards Israel Greek deputy prime minister accuses Israel of practicing Nazi-style mass punishment University of Haifa creates new hearing research center Sleepless in Jerusalem over whether Israel is becoming as bad as any other nation … by […]

By Rabbi Will Kramer (December 24, 1971) Not long ago, we reviewed Sam J. Lee’s Moses of the New World the story of the life and work of Baron de Hirsch. It made us de Hirsch-conscious. In 1896, Rabbi Jacob Voorsanger of San Francisco admired Hirsch’s success in South America and hoped that Baja California

  By Charlene Neely   LA MESA, California — Looking for Jews in strange places, try the Caribbean islands for the last 400 years. Although little historical research has been done on the Sephardim of the Caribbean islands and the surrounding area in the past, there is a new growth of information thanks in part

By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO — “On the tenth of this month they shall take for themselves a lamb…” (Ex. 12:3) It took great courage for the Jews to bring the Korbon Pesach (Passover Offering), as Moshe (Moses) had commanded them in the name of Hashem (G-d). The lamb was  worshiped by the Egyptians.

By Rabbi Philip Graubart LA JOLLA, California–Did God write the Torah?  The question came up in my son’s Jewish high school last week provoking some surprisingly heated discussions.  I say “surprisingly” because I wouldn’t have expected eleventh graders to care so passionately about a theological issue.  Also, this is a community Jewish school, a pluralistic,

NEW YORK (Press Release)–Following the incident on US Airways flight 3709 from New York to Louisville on Jan. 21—which made an unscheduled landing when a flight attendant was alarmed by the Jewish religious article of a young passenger—B’nai B’rith International is urging aviation officials to more systematically equip both airline crew and airport security personnel

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–The Defense Department announced Friday that the convening authority for Military Commissions withdrew and dismissed the charges, without prejudice, against the five detainees charged in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. This action comes in light of the announcement by the attorney general of the United States that the Department of Justice intends to

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – U.S. Rep. Gus M. Bilirakis (Republican, Florida) Ranking Member of the Homeland Security Committee’s Subcommittee on Management, Investigations, and Oversight on Thursday, sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano urging prompt action to enhance our nation’s visa screening capabilities overseas to keep terrorists out of the United States.

NEW YORK (Press Release)– The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said Rush Limbaugh reached a new low with “borderline anti-Semitic comments” on his radio show, in which he raised the possibility that liberal Jews were having “buyer’s remorse” with President Obama in light of the outcome of the Senate election in Massachusetts. Limbaugh told his listeners: “To

LONDON  (WJC)–The Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Jewish Leadership Council (JLC) have expressed concern about the government’s decision to lift its ban on relations with the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), the UK’s largest Muslim organization. In a letter addressed to the Secretary of State for Communities, John Denham, the president of

AUSCHWITZ, Poland (WJC)–The Auschwitz Museum has dismissed a security guard a security guard who was in charge last month when the infamous sign ‘Arbeit macht frei’, which hangs over the entrance to the former Nazi death camp, was stolen. “We found that the fault was human error. The head of the security team on service

Mama never seemed to miss the finer things of life If she did she never did say so to daddy She never wanted to be more than a mother and a wife If she did she never did say so to daddy The only thing that seemed to be important to her life Was to

MUNICH, Germany (WJC) — Thomas Blatt, 82, a survivor of the Sobibor death camp where Ivan Demjanjuk was allegedly employed as a guard by the Nazis, has given testimony at Demjanjuk’s trial in Munich. Blatt’s family was killed at Sobibor, and at the age of 15, Blatt was ordered to sort out the belongings of Jews

NEW YORK (Press Release)– The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said that the visit to the Rome Synagogue by Pope Benedict XVI “acknowledged the validity of Judaism and affirmed the Catholic-Jewish relationship.”            Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following statement:   “Pope Benedict acknowledged the validity of Judaism and affirmed the Catholic-Jewish relationship by his