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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

By Jeanette Friedman New York Bureau Chief, San Diego Jewish World   MONTCLAIR, New Jersey–It’s amazing when New Yawkers cross the Hudson to go see a show. And when Robert Brustein’s fantastic adaptation of Shlemiel the First was at Montclair State, they got in their cars, rented buses and hied themselves over to the Kassner Theater, where this Yiddish-flavored musical tripped the lights

LA JOLLA, California (Press Release)–“Jewish Poets, Jewish Voices” begins its second season of three evenings showcasing original  poems and songs performed by local poets and song writers, at 7:30 p.m.  Wednesday evening, Jan.. 20, at the Astor Judaica Library in the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center. Sara Appel-Lennon, columnist for San Diego Jewish World and Yael G’mach, artist

HANIA, Crete (WJC) –Following the second arson attack in less than two weeks, the roof of the historic synagogue in Hania, on the Greek island of Crete, is badly damaged and many books kept in the synagogue have been destroyed. An unknown number of people entered the building in the early hours of Saturday morning,

By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, TAIWAN — One of my Taiwanese college students told me this distressing tale about her English professor, and I have no reason to doubt her. The professor, educated in the United States, is a convert to Christianity — having been born in a family that was nominally Buddhist and Taoist,