By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM (Press Release)–Like most people whom I’ve talked to, I’m ignorant about what’s really going on between Israel and Turkey. Of course, that doesn’t stop me – or anybody else for that matter – from commenting on it. It seems quite clear that Turkey has decided to lean toward the East […]
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Middle EastCORONADO, California (Press Release)–The Agency for Jewish Education continues its Coronado lecture series this month with Professor Steven Cassedy of UCSD. Cassedy’s lecture will take place in the Winn Room of the Coronado Library (640 Orange Avenue, Coronado) on Jan. 20 at 10:30 am. His lecture is titled, “A Bintel Brief: Abe Cahan as the
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Travel and FoodSACRAMENTO (Press Release)- The Assembly Committee on Revenue and Taxation on Monday passed AB 1178, a bill authored by Assemblymember Marty Block (78th Assembly District, San Diego) to support California’s college students by reducing by $120 million annually the sales tax on textbooks and school supplies found at college bookstores. AB 1178 would take
NEW YORK (Press Release)–The role of religion in American life continues to be a subject of national discussion and debate. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which has always been at the forefront of issues surrounding religious expression in America, has joined with a diverse group of organizations in a statement about the current state of the
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – U.S. Representative Candice Miller (Republican-Michigan), a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, on Tuesday introduced the Terrorist Detention and Prosecution Act of 2010 which will clarify federal law giving the President the clear authority to treat all foreign terrorists as enemy combatants regardless of where they are captured. This legislation will
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– The National Nuclear Security Administration has announced the removal of the final 5.4 kilograms (11.9 pounds) of U.S.-origin highly enriched uranium (HEU) spent nuclear fuel from Turkey. The material – the last significant amount of HEU in Turkey – was removed and returned to the United States for storage at a
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USASANA’A, Yemen (WJC) –Government forces have reportedly killed the local leader of the Islamist terror network al-Qaeda, Abdullah Mehdar. He is said to have been the leader of an al-Qaeda group in the province of Shabwa, 400 miles east of the capital Sana’a. Reports said security forces were also hunting other members of the cell.
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (WJC)–A man jailed in Cuba last month and denounced as an American spy was working on a US government project to help the small Cuban Jewish community access the internet, according to the United States Agency for International Development in Washington. Alan P. Gross, 60, had gone to Cuba to provide communications equipment
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Travel and FoodMUNICH, Germany (WJC) — The alleged Nazi war criminal Ivan Demjanjuk may have his trial postponed after an appeal to the court by his attorney. The 89-year-old Ukrainian-born man is on trial in Munich charged with helping to murder 27,900 Jews at the Sobibor death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. The case resumed
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Middle East, USATEHRAN (WJC)–The Iranian regime has accused Israel and the United States of perpetrating a bomb attack in northern Tehran in which a senior Iranian nuclear scientist, Massoud Ali Mohammadi, was killed on Monday. “One can see in preliminary investigations signs of the triangle of evil of the Zionist regime, America and their mercenaries in Iran
JERUSALEM (WJC)–Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon has apologized to Turkey over what Ankara called the “discourteous” way he had treated the Turkish ambassador in Israel at a summons on Monday. In particular the fact that Ayalon made Ambassador Ahmed Oguz Celikkol sit on a low couch while he sat on a high chair as he
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Middle EastROME (WJC)–Holocaust survivors have asked Rome’s Chief Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni to tell Pope Benedict of their pain at his advancement of the case of Pope Pius XII toward beatification during the visit of Catholic pontiff to Rome’s main synagogue on Sunday. “The decision by Pope Benedict to advance the candidacy of Pius to sainthood
AMMAN, Jordan (WJC)– The Jordanian government has said that the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls were seized illegally by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War and has asked the United Nations for them to be restored to Jordan. “The government has legal documents that prove Jordan owns the scrolls,” a government official in Amman said, adding
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Middle EastJERUSALEM (WJC) — Samuel (Shmuel) Hadas, Israel’s first ambassador to the Holy See in Rome, has died in Jerusalem at the age of 72. In a statement, World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder called Hadas “a pioneer of Jewish-Catholic relations who was not only instrumental in establishing relations between Israel and the Vatican during
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