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 [...]
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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 [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) –The U.S. State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley issued the following statement: “Today marks one year since Cuban authorities detained Alan Gross. Mr. Gross is an international development worker who traveled to Cuba to help connect members of the Jewish community in Havana with other Jewish communities throughout the world. We have [...]
HAVANA (WJC)–The leadership of Cuba’s Jewish community has denied having worked with the jailed American contractor Alan P. Gross, whose family claims he was on the island help Jewish organizations gain better access to the internet. Cuban authorities have accused Alan Gross of espionage, though they have not pressed charges despite keeping him in custody [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The wife of a Jewish American aid worker jailed in Havana for allegedly being a spy has written a letter to Cuban President Raúl Castro expressing regret for his actions. The ‘Reuters’ news agency also reported that Judy Gross, wife of US Agency for International Development employee Alan Gross, had claimed President [...]
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HAVANA – In a three-day series of interviews in September with correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg, Fidel Castro reflected upon anti-Semitism, Iran and Israel. He told of believing as a child that the Jews killed Jesus, but not knowing exactly what a Jew was. He reflected that Jews have been persecuted for 2,000 years, and may have [...]
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The issue of the New York City mosque near ground zero has awakened discussion of that big gorilla in the American living room. Despite all the platitudes slung back and forth about religious freedom and the separation of church and state, and the assertion that the problem of terror is not Islam, [...]
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NEW YORK (Press Release)– The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations has requested a meeting with the Cuban Ambassador to the UN Pedro Nunez Mosquera to discuss the plight of Alan P. Gross, who has been held in a Cuban jail since December 3, 2009. The Conference also addressed this issue in a letter [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following is the transcript of remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a reception for Hannah Rosenthal, the special envoy to combat worldwide anti-Semitism. SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, I don’t think I need to say a word. (Laughter.) It is such a great pleasure for me to welcome all of you here [...]
