Stronger Than Iron by Mendel Balberyszski; Gefen Publishing House; 331 pages; no price listed. By Norman Manson SAN DIEGO – In utterly excruciating detail, this memoir tells the complete story of the destruction of one of the world’s great Jewish communities - Vilna, known as “The Jerusalem of Lithuania” for at least two centuries [...]
KAUNUS, Lithuania (WJC)–Jewish organizations in Lithuania have strongly condemned an apparent neo-Nazi attack in which a pig’s head was left Saturday at the entrance of a synagogue in the city of Kaunas. “The Lithuanian Jewish Community and the Religious Community of Lithuanian Jews judge this as Nazi provocation aimed at insulting the ethnic and religious [...]
By David Amos SAN DIEGO–Earlier this month we celebrated our Independence Day. My thoughts brought me to the importance of American music, and the shameful neglect we have allowed music education to be. Part of this was stimulated by an article in the editorial section of the San Diego Union-Tribune by John M. Eger, on [...]
Jewish Home Cooking by Arthur Schwartz,Ten Speed Press, $35 Jewish Holiday Cooking by Jayne Cohen, John Wiley and Sons, $32.50 By Marc Yaffe BETHESDA, Maryland–The two Jewish cookbooks that are being reviewed here were both runners-up for the 2009 James Beard Awards in their individual categories. Clearly I am guilty of a certain hubris for [...]
By Franklin Gaylis SAN DIEGO — Several thousand years of Jewish history has been extremely well documented. What about our personal family’s history over the past few hundred years? This is the question I asked myself when our children were born in the USA after my wife Jean, and I emigrated in 1982 from South [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Monday praised the countries whose delegates walked out on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at a United Nations conference after he accused the U.S., Israel and an unspecified European country of threatening Iran with nuclear weapons. The Iranian president was delivering remarks to the Non-Proliferation Treaty [...]
Garry Fabian Compiled by Garry Fabian The Zentai saga rolls on PERTH 13 April – The Federal Court in Western Australia will next month begin hearing an appeal from Perth man Charles Zentai against his extradition to Hungary to face war crimes charges. The court has postponed the start of a judicial review into the [...]
Compiled by Garry Fabian A new slant on Dubai killing. MELBOURNE,10 March – The article below was written by Paul Howes, National Secretary of the Australian Workers Union, who has always been a strong supporter of Israel. It’s fascinating how one word can change so dramatically the meaning of one sentence. Since the allegations emerged [...]
JERUSALEM–Holocaust scholars have criticized a growing tendency in central and eastern Europe to equate the Shoah with Communist oppression, a trend which they consider “the gravest threat to preserving the memory of the Holocaust” as it served to exculpate populations complicit in the extermination of their Jewish minorities, according to a report by the Israeli [...]
VILNIUS (WJC)–Lithuanian Justice Minister Remigijus Šimašius has said his country should answer questions regarding its behavior during World War II with its head held high. Writing in his internet blog, Šimašius dismissed accusations that Lithuania had been an anti-Semitic country and collaborated with the Nazis. “First of all, the fact that many Jews were killed [...]
