International

Retailers urged to push for commonsense gun laws

WASHINGTON,D.C. (Press Release0 – In a letter Friday, June 13,  to the National Retail Federation, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy  and Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty, all Connecticut Democrats, called on retailers to join the national, bipartisan push for commonsense gun violence reform measures and to consider voluntary measures individual retailers could take to immediately reduce […]

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USA

Amid tumult, Rivkin heads for Israel and P.A.

WASHINGTON, D.C.  (SDJW) — Amid the tension between Israel and the Palestinian Authority over the kidnapping of three teenagers, one of whom has dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship, the U.S. State Department issued a routine announcement that Charles H. Rivkin, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, Charles H. Rivkin, “will travel to Tel Aviv,

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Middle East, USA

Australia turns away bishop who denies Holocaust

CANBERRA, Australia (WJC)–Australian authorities have barred a Holocaust-denying Catholic bishop from entering the country. Bishop Richard Williamson was scheduled to speak in rural Australia later this month but his visa was revoked this week, the ‘Australian Jewish News’ reported. The Jewish newspaper said it had contacted the Department of Immigration last week to alert them

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International, Jewish History

EJC announces lawsuit against Le Pen for ‘oven’ remark

PARIS (WJC) –The European Jewish Congress (EJC) has announced that it will file a lawsuit in a Paris court against Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder and long-time leader of the far-right French National Front, after anti-Semitic remarks by Le Pen about Jewish singer Patrick Bruel which caused outrage.  LePen said, “We will do a full

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International, Jewish History

JNS news briefs: June 13, 2014

Palestinian negotiator calls Netanyahu ‘filthy war criminal,’ slams Abbas (JNS.org) In a newly surfaced audio recording, Saeb Erekat—the top Palestinian negotiator in the collapsed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks—calls Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “filthy war criminal” and also harshly criticizes the leadership of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. “I don’t say shoot him. He isn’t worth

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International, Middle East

Waxman: No trade pact with Brunei until human rights assured for women, LGBT and religious minorities

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)— Reps. Mark Pocan (D-WI), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Louise Slaughter (D-NY), and Henry Waxman (D-CA), along with 114 of their House colleagues, on Thursday, June 12,  sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry and United States Trade Representative Michael Froman insisting the United States stop any further

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International

Peruvian honored as ‘Righteous Among The Nations’

JERUSALEM (WJC) — Peru’s consul in Geneva during World War II, José María Barreto, became the first Peruvian on Thursday to be named by Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial institution, as Righteous Among the Nations, for helping to save Jews from the Holocaust. By 1938, the government of Peru had given instructions to all of

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International, Jewish History