Headlines for Sunday, January 31, 2010, edition

  Global International Holocaust Remembrance Day speakers warn of Iran’s intentions United States of America Haiti Relief Tax break planned in California for Haiti donors Middle East Israel Now, why would anyone be pessimistic in Israel?  by Rabbi Dow Marmur in Jerusalem Europe Jewish cemetery in Strasbourg vandalized German court orders Catholic bishop to face trial for Holocaust denial Arts

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Travel and Food

International Holocaust Remembrance Day speakers warn of Iran's intentions

BERLIN (WJC) — Speaking on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israel’s President Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder have highlighted the dangers posed by the Iranian regime. “There will be just a few more short years before the living memories become memories,” said Ronald Lauder, president of the

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Middle East

German court orders Catholic bishop to face trial for Holocaust denial

REGENSBURG, Germany (WJC)–A court in Germany has summoned the Catholic Bishop Richard Williamson to attend a trial in April where he is to face charges of incitement for his belittling of the Holocaust, which is a crime in Germany. In comments broadcast on Swedish television in January 2009, Williamson said he believed no more than

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Travel and Food

Jewish cemetery in Strasbourg vandalized

STRASBOURG, France (WJC)–A Jewish cemetery in the eastern French city of Strasbourg was vandalized by anti-Semites. The attack occurred on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Over 30 gravestones at the Cronenbourg cemetery were either spray-painted with swastikas and the Nazi slogan “Juden raus!” [Jews out], or toppled, according to the French Jewish community

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Preventing teen dating violence

By Yvonne Greenberg   SAN DIEGO–With the subject of relationship violence so much in the news recently,  it is certainly timely that Dr. Marni Greenberg, Psy.D., an educator and clinician who is currently working with Project SARAH  (Stop Abusive Relationships at Home), the domestic violence program of Jewish Family Service of San Diego, will be making a

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ACLU accuses Lieberman, others of wanting to discard Constitution in terror cases

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Criticizing the Obama administration’s decision to charge accused Christmas Day attacker Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in the criminal court system, members of Congress are calling for legislation requiring intelligence officials to be consulted about how to handle terrorism suspects after their capture, arguing that options other than the criminal justice system should

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Abdulmutallab belongs in military custody — Senators Lieberman and Collins

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, Independent-Connecticut., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, Republican-Maine., urged the Obama Administration Monday to move Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab from civilian to military custody because he is an enemy combatant and should be detained, interrogated and ultimately charged as such.  Abdulmutallab, who is

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USA

Music and diary revive dark feelings of Shoah

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel –No, not the conductor, Otto Klemperer, but his cousin, Viktor, Professor of Romance Languages at Dresden University. Most of Viktor’s extended family had left Germany for the US well before 1939, but Viktor had no children, was married to a non-Jew, had fought in the German army in the

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, USA

Jewish Community Foundation donors send over $100,000 for Haiti relief

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–In the first two weeks following the devastating earthquake in Haiti, nearly 70 individuals and families who partner with the Jewish Community Foundation for their giving immediately stepped up and recommended almost $102,000 in grants to provide immediate assistance to victims. Schools, hospitals and thousands of homes have been destroyed and more

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Middle East, San Diego Calendar

Just how 'enlightened' is Europe?

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–One of my internet friends objects to my calling Europe the enlightened continent. “What in the blazes are you talking about.? Europe, the hot-bed of modern antisemitism…enlightened? The Netherlands with a de facto, maybe de jure euthanasia policy! France being so overrun with rebellious Muslims that there are scores of areas throughout the country

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA