November 2010

Lawrence Baron named one of 50 key thinkers on the Holocaust

  Lawrence Baron SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– History Prof.  Dr. Lawrence Baron  has been named one of the fifty key thinkers in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Baron will be featured in a new book entitled Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide by Paul R. Bartrop of Bialik College and Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia […]

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Gerda Weissman Klein, 14 others, to receive presidential medals

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Gerda Weissmann Klein, A Holocaust survivor and educator, was one of 15 persons named by President Barack Obama on Wednesday as Presidential Medal of Freedom honorees. A White House announcement said “Gerda Weissmann Klein is a Jewish Holocaust survivor who has written several books about her experiences.  After Nazi Germany took over

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Reform’s Religious Action Center criticizes Senate’s failure to invoke cloture in paycheck fairness debate

WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)—In response to the Senate’s failure to invoke cloture on the Paycheck Fairness Act (S. 3772), Barbara Weinstein, Legislative Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism issued the following statement: “We are deeply disappointed by today’s Senate vote failing to invoke cloture on the Paycheck Fairness Act. This legislation would

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Netanyahu meets with Christians United for Israel delegation

JERUSALEM (Press Release) – A delegation from Christians United for Israel (CUFI), including 27 leading pastors from across the United States, met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday. The meeting was part of a six-day trip to Israel, organized and led by CUFI, intended to raise the pastors’ awareness about the issues facing

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Middle East

You think we’ve got terrorists now? Wait 30 years!

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Could terrorists of the future use a swarm of tiny robots — less than a quarter-inch high — to attack their targets?  Will new bio materials be able to target individuals carrying specific genetic markers?  Could cyber-attackers melt down a nuclear facility with the press of a “return” key, or implant

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Science, Medicine, & Education

Public-interest group releases uncensored documents on U.S. protection of some Nazis

WASHINGTON, D.C ( Press Release)- The Department of Justice censored dozens of pages of a candid history of Nazi-hunting (and Nazi-protecting) by the U.S. government to such a self-defeating extent that former officials leaked the entire document to the New York Times this week, instead of fulfilling the Freedom of Information request and lawsuit filed

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Shonda file: 3 more plead guilty in money laundering scheme in which rabbis also are accused

  TRENTON, N.J. (Press Rlease)– Three men who operated unlicensed money transmitting businesses inNew York pleaded guilty on Tuesday to operating the illegal businesses, admitting they transferredlarge amounts of cash to a cooperating witness and to Rabbi Mordechai Fish, the then-principal rabbi of Congregation Sheves Achim in Brooklyn, N.Y., United States Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Avrohom

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Houdini exhibit to escape New York, tour the country

By Joel A. Moskowitz, M.D.   LA JOLLA, California — Houdini is a name to conjure with.  For many the word “Houdini” is equivalent to ‘magician’.   More than eight decades after his premature demise, he is returning to California.  Not Houdini per se, but his artifacts, his story and the multiple works which he inspired –

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Jewish History, Travel and Food

Israel has friends with clout in the GOP-controlled House

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA– Eric Cantor, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Allen West missed a fitting opportunity to challenge President Obama’s inconsistent approach to Israel. The occasion emerged in early November when the president clashed with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once again over East Jerusalem housing. Well, the Cantor/Ros-Lehtinen/West crowd has two years to assure Israelis

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Susan Scher to leave White House position as chief of staff to First Lady

WASHINGTON, DC  (Press Release)- The Office of the First Lady announced on Tuesday, Nov. 16,  that Susan Sher, Chief of Staff to Michelle Obama, will be returning to Chicago after the first of the year, after nearly two years of service.   Sher started in the White House Counsel’s Office in January, 2009, to support the Office

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Press secretary tells of Eric Cantor’s now controversial meeting with Netanyahu

By Brad Dayspring WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– On Nov. 10, Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Regency Hotel in New York. Early the next morning, after a handful of journalists asked for details, our office released a short readout divided into three different issue areas – Iran,

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B’nai Chaim promotes wine country tour

MURIETTA, California (Press Release) — The Men’s Club of Congregation B’nai Chaim in Murrieta–a few miles north of the San Diego County-Riverside County line — is holding a drawing for a wine-country-limo-for-two certificate. The certificate, which is valid seven days a week and has no expiration date, includes a limo pick up and drop off, wine tasting

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Commentary: Barack Obama an intellectual? An ideologue is more like it!

By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — You’re traveling through another dimension–a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s a signpost up ahead: your next stop: the Twilight Zone! –Rod Serling’s introduction to the “Twilight Zone” television series Just when

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