Washington, D.C. (February 4, 2011) — The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) on Friday called on J Street to give back the “secret” money it has received from George Soros, whose virulent anti-Israel bias can no longer be ignored. In an op-ed piece in yesterday’s Washington Post concerning the upheaval in Egypt and the U.S. response, George Soros […]
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USANEW YORK (Press Release)–In a letter Thursday to Brooklyn College President Karen L. Gould, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) criticized the college for rehiring Kristofer Petersen-Overton to teach a graduate course on the Middle East this spring. After Petersen-Overton was initially hired, the college was provided with evidence regarding his publications and professional background,
HOLLYWOOD (Press Release)–A friend of the US actor and film director Mel Gibson said the latter but had tried to goad a police officer into drawing his weapon and shoot by hurling anti-Semitic slurs at him after he stopped Gibson for drink driving. The incident in 2007 led to the steady decline of Gibson’s once
LONDON (WJC)–The second highest number of anti-Semitic incidents was recorded in the UK last year, the Community Security Trust (CST) of the British Jewish community said. More than 639 complaints about violence and abuse against Jews or Jewish institutions were received last year. They included street attacks, hate mail, threats, and the vandalism and desecration
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Travel and Food
By Jeanette Friedman ENGLEWOOD, N.J.–Thirty-seven years ago, this very week, there was a snowstorm swirling outside my kitchen window, but my sixth floor apartment was so hot and dry I cracked the window facing the fire escape before I went to bed. It was about 3 a.m., and I had just fallen asleep when I
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USAHAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — Bilinguals findit easier to learn a third language, as they gain a better aptitude for languages, a new study from the University of Haifa reveals. Prof. Salim Abu-Rabia and Ekaterina Sanitsky of the Department of Special Education, who conducted the study, set out to examine what benefits bilingualism might have in
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Science, Medicine, & Education
(Column 15, February 3, 2011) Compiled by Donald H. Harrison * _________________ Jewish Organizations _________________ Western States Jewish History has put San Diego’s first federal judge, the late Jacob Weinberger, on the cover of its winter edition. Judge Weinberger came to San Diego after serving as a member of the convention in Arizona responsible
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego CountyWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – U.S. Senators Frank R. Lautenberg (D-New Jersey), Mike Johanns (R-Nebraska) and nine of their Senate colleagues have called on the German government to stop the Hamburg-based bank, Europäisch-Iranische Handelsbank (EIH), from providing financial support for Iran’s nuclear program. The Senators wrote to the German Foreign Minister expressing their concern that EIH
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – An immigration judge in Detroit has ordered John (Ivan) Kalymon of Troy, Mich., removed from the United States because of his participation in Nazi-sponsored acts of persecution while serving during World War II as an armed member of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (UAP) in Nazi-occupied L’viv, Ukraine, announced Assistant Attorney General
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By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO– Losing one’s coveted view of the ocean can hardly fit into the category of a tragedy. A shame, maybe; too bad, if you aren’t sympathetic to only the privileged few having ocean views; life sucks if you are. How we act or rather react to losing something that subjective can,
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Travel and FoodJERUSALEM (Press Release) — Research carried out at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem shows that it was possible already in 2008 to predict that countries such as Egypt and Iran were headed for dangerous periods of instability because of citizens’ demands for democratization. The researchers were able to make this observation on the basis of a
TEL AVIV (Press Release)— Prof. Eran Rabani of Tel Aviv University’s School of Chemistry and his colleagues at Columbia University have discovered a new quantum mechanical effect with glass-forming liquids. They’ve determined that it’s possible to melt glass — not by heating it, but by cooling it to a temperature near Absolute Zero. This new
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–You’ve had a rest from me while we have been enjoying the sights and tastes of southern France. But the world has been busy. First there was a release of hitherto secret details from al-Jazeera on Israeli-Palestinian discussions, then the publication of Ehud Olmert’s memoirs, and then the spread of upsets to
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastOSWIECIM, Poland (WJC)– A large delegation of Muslim leaders has visited Auschwitz to pay tribute to the millions of Jews and others killed in the Holocaust. The group of some 150 people included representatives from Morocco, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq, as well as rabbis, Holocaust survivors and Christian representatives such as Cardinals André Vingt-Trois
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