GENEVA (WJC)—In a nation-wide referendum, Swiss citizens voted in favor of banning the construction of minarets on mosques. The surprise result, in a country that has only four mosques with minarets and no major problems with Islamist militancy, has led to concerns that Switzerland’s trade relations with the Muslim world might suffer. Fifty-eight percent of

AUCKLAND, New Zealand–Fred Silberstein, a survivor of Auschwitz who gave evidence at the Nuremberg Trials has died aged 80 in New Zealand. Silberstein, who was 14 when he was taken to Auschwitz in 1943, spent much of his life educating people in New Zealand about the horrors of the Holocaust and the subsequent dangers of

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — It sounded as if Florida Gov. Charlie Crist had all but declared war on the 800,000 Jewish inhabitants of his state. Bob Kunst, president of Shalom International in Miami Beach, sent Crist a vehement letter, which he shared with the media and others, accusing him of mounting “a direct