NEW YORK (Press Release) –The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Sunday strongly criticized the conviction and sentencing of Alan Gross to 15 years in prison by a Cuban court and called on the Cuban government to release him on humanitarian grounds. Gross, an American subcontractor on a U.S. Agency for International Development program and an active member of the Jewish [...]
NEW YORK (WJC)–The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (CoP) has sent a letter to Cuban President Raúl Castro appealing for the release of Jewish aid worker Alan Gross, 61, who has been held in a Cuban jail since December 2009 and now charged with “crimes against the state.” His trial is to [...]
Feb 28 2011 | Posted in
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Editor’s Note: From time to time, on request, we will reprint articles from the that editor Donald H. Harrison compiled has compiled over nearly a half century of reporting. Carlos Salas-Diaz, subject of this article, still is leading his congregation in Tijuana. Reprinted from the San Diego Jewish Press-Heritage, October 23, 1998 TIJUANA, Mexico (special) — The [...]
MONTREAL, Canada (WJC) – A municipal court ruled that a Jewish cab driver must not display religious artifacts and other objects in his taxi. Arieh Perecowicz, 66, lost his when a court upheld several fines against him for having too many personal and religious objects in his car. He was ordered to pay US$ 1,300, half of it [...]
Feb 21 2011 | Posted in
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HAVANA (WJC)–Prosecutors in Cuba are reportedly seeking a 20-year prison sentence for the Jewish American Alan Gross, a US government contractor that the State Department says was assisting Cuban Jews. Gross is accused of “Acts Against the Independence and Territorial Integrity of the State,” the ‘Reuters’ news agency says, citing Cuban state media. The espionage [...]
RAMALLAH, Palestine Authority (WJC)– Riyad al-Malki, the Palestinian Authority’s foreign minister, has said that the Republic of Cyprus – a member state of the European Union – had recognized a Palestinian state within the pre-1967 borders. Al-Malki told the French news agency AFP the move had been “formalized” in a letter sent by Cyprus President [...]
Jan 31 2011 | Posted in
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LIMA (WJC)–Peru has joined other Latin American states in recognizing a Palestinian state. “Today the government communicated to the ambassador of Palestine in Lima recognition of the Palestinian state as free and sovereign,” Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde said in the capital Lima last Monday. He did not specify the borders of the state [...]
HALIFAX (WJC)–The Canadian Jewish Congress has unveiled a monument commemorating the Canadian authorities’ fateful decision in 1939 to turn away a steamship carrying Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. In May 1939, 937 Jewish refugees boarded the MS St. Louis, a German passenger ship, in Hamburg, hoping to reach Havana, Cuba. The passengers aboard were denied [...]
{Update of story below: By Barry Rubin Well, that’s more like it! The Canadian government orders the showing of a film on Iran’s nuclear program previously cancelled due to threats. The Canadian government even sent a diplomatic note to Tehran saying that Canada is a free country and that freedom of expression is a core value [...]
Jan 20 2011 | Posted in
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MONTREAL, Canada (WJC) – Police are investigating a series of attacks by vandals on five Jewish institutions. Windows were broken at three synagogues and at a Jewish school and a kindergarten. The attackers struck at the different sites between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. on Sunday morning, and the attacks are believed to be linked. “In [...]
