By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — Here’s a good report on Israel’s amazing intelligence activity along its northern border, with new types of information-gathering and targeting equipment concealed in rocks: And here’s a good report on the heating up of terrorism activity along Israel’s Gaza border: Note that something very important is happening here–unnoticed [surprise!] […]
BRUSSELS (WJC)–Jordanian King Abdullah has stressed the need for inter-faith dialogue in order to build bridges of tolerance and understanding between different cultures. In a speech to leaders of the European People’s Party in Brussels, attended by 20 European presidents and prime ministers as well as the heads of EU institutions, Abdullah emphasized the need
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Travel and FoodLOS ANGELES (WJC) — A video game in which Jewish concentration camp inmates kill Nazi guards has been criticized by Jewish organizations. The game ‘Sonderkommando Revolt’ is based on a real-life uprising by Jews who were assigned to burning the corpses of the gassed and robbing their bodies of gems and gold teeth (the so-called ‘Sonderkommando’,
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Travel and FoodHOLLYWOOD (WJC)–The actress Winona Ryder has claimed that American actor and film director Mel Gibson, 56, made “anti-Semitic and homophobic” remarks long before he was caught on tape making such comments. In the new issue of the men’s magazine GQ, Ryder said that the actor and director was anti-Semitic and homophobic, but “No one believed
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Travel and FoodBERLIN (Press Release) — The German government is to pay € 60 million (US$ 80 million) over the coming months into a fund for the preservation of the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Notably the former gas chambers and other evidence of crimes committed at the camp are deteriorating to the point of collapse. Germany
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday announced the launch of the Palestinian Information Communications Technology Capacity Building Initiative (PITI). This initiative is designed to enhance Palestinian economic capacity in the information communications technology (ICT) sector by facilitating partnerships between Palestinian ICT companies and U.S. multinational companies, particularly those with operations in the
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents are questioning innocent Americans who are perceived to be Muslim about their religion and their political beliefs without any suspicion that they have done anything wrong, according to a letter the American Civil Liberties Union and Muslim Advocates sent to the top internal watchdog
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–While there is a coordinated federal government approach to combatting terrorism emanating from foreign countries, there is no such coordination in countering the threat of domestic terrorism, according to a report provided by the Congressional Research Service. The report provides history of domestic terror incidents in the United States, several of
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USAPORTLAND, Oregon (Press Release) – A federal Grand Jury sitting in Portland has charged Hossein Lahiji, 47, of McAllen, Texas, Najmeh Vahid, 35, of San Antonio, Texas and Ahmad Iranshahi, 53, of Tehran, Iran, in a two-count indictment charging conspiracy to defraud the United States and to commit money laundering. The indictment alleges that the
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Mike Hammer, spokesman for the U.S. National Security Council, issued a statement on Thursday, Dec. 16, deploring an attack by Sudanese armed forces on the village of Khor Abeche in South Darfur. Here is the statement: The United States is deeply concerned about reports that the Sudanese Armed Forces attacked
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By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — One of the most commented upon panels in the fused glass sculpture of the Twelve Tribes of Israel in the lobby of Tifereth Israel Synagogue is the one which portrays Dan. Dan is symbolized by a snake, which seems to be an unusual metaphor for the ancestors of
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Jewish ReligionBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — A friend provoked this column by sending me a video clip of a speech by Professor John J. Mearsheimer before a gathering of the Jerusalem Fund. Mearsheimer is a University of Chicago political scientist best know for his publications with Stephen Walt (Harvard) on the Israel lobby in the
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Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Fund Lauds Former Officials Southwestern Jewish Press, June 24, 1955, Page 1 Sol Stone, second from left, and Mrs. Yale Naliboff, former United Jewish Fund workers, ere praised and honored by Fund Directors at the June Board meeting. Judge Jacob Weinberger, left, presented Stone with Honorary Life Membership
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Adventures in SD History, San Diego CountyNEW YORK (Press Release)– The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations called on Thursday for countries to vote against a 10th anniversary commemoration of the infamous World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance held in Durban in September 2001. That conference, which began with lofty goals, deteriorated into an orgy of hatred,
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