SOFIA (WJC)– Israel’s President Shimon Peres has paid tribute to Bulgaria’s record with respect to the plight of its Jewish population during World War II. Peres said that the country had “suffered much from many directions, including from the Nazis, but the country managed not only to save itself, but also to save the Bulgarian Jews”. […]
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Middle EastDAMASCUS (WJC)–Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has met with Syrian President Bashar Assad here to discuss “the regional security threats posed by the Zionist regime” [Israel]. Referring to the deadly border skirmish last week, both men declared that they would support Lebanon against Israel’s “aggression”. Mottaki described Israel as “the source of insecurity and threat”
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Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Beware the Demagogue Southwestern Jewish Press, December 12, 1954, Page 7 It is not easy to be calm and objective about the course of events in the McCarthy affair. The Jews are familiar with the pattern of demagoguery. Centuries of persecution have taught them not to treat lightly
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There is a troubling item in the New York Times that describes “the Obama administration pouring billions into its nationwide campaign to overhaul failing schools, dozens of companies with little or no experience are portraying themselves as school-turnaround experts as they compete for the money.” If the budget says spend
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release)—The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) praises U.S. Reps. Michael E. McMahon (D-NY) and Gary C. Peters (D-MI) for urging the Department of Education to protect Jewish students from anti-Semitic harassment and intimidation. In a letter sent Monday, August 9, to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Reps. McMahon and Peters joined three dozen
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Middle EastEditor, San Diego Jewish World Great news! I am delighted to inform you that the SPEECH Act (Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage Act) – a law which I initiated and promoted over the last two years – was signed into law today (Tuesday, August 10) by the President. This new
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USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Monday, in the wake of the killing of an IDF officer inside Israel by Lebanese Armed Forces personnel, Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) announced that Congress would block the disbursement of $100 million in U.S. military aid to Lebanon. Lowey chairs the House Appropriations Subcommittee that authorizes such funds. Similarly,
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USANEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Tuesday called on the Government of Israel to extend, on humanitarian grounds, the protection of legal status to all of the children of foreign workers now in Israel rather than create a distinction which would result in 400 of them being deported from the country. ADL
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish appeared on a prime time Israeli news program, speaking in fluent Hebrew, representing the possibility that there might, after all, be a Palestinian Nelson Mandela. Abuelaish (or Abu al-Aish) is the physician who held appointments in both Gazan and Israeli hospitals, and lost three of his eight
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastJERUSALEM (WJC)–Israel has threatened to pull out of a UN inquiry into the IDF raid on the Gaza-bound ‘Freedom Flotilla’ after the UN secretary-general said there was no agreement that the panel would refrain from calling Israeli soldiers to testify. Last week, Jerusalem agreed to participate in the UN probe. Officials said Israel’s agreement was
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Middle EastTUNIS (WJC)–A musical show scheduled for the Carthage International Festival has been called off after its actors sparked outrage on the internet for performing for Israelis. Selim Baccouche, actor and organizer of the musical ‘Nouraniet’, canceled his show after his co-actor, Tunisian performer Mohsen Cherif voiced support for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a
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Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Southwestern Jewish Press, December 10, 1954, Page 3 Albert Adatto and his bride Ethel Schwartz Ethel Schwartz Married to Albert Adatto in November Ethel D. Schwartz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Schwartz, was wed to Albert Adatto, son of Mr. and Mrs. I Adatto of Seattle,
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By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — In January 2010, the Canadian government announced that its aid would be redirected from UNRWA to “specific projects in the Palestinian Authority that will ensure accountability and foster democracy in the PA.” The total amount of money was the same, but the president of Canada’s Treasury Board said, “It
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– House Republican Whip Eric Cantor on Monday issued the following statement regarding Lebanon and the Lebanese Armed Forces’ (LAF) relationship with Hezbollah: “Since 2006, America has provided the Lebanese army with $720 million in aid. This includes stocks of M16 rifles, missile launchers, grenade launchers and night-vision devices. The purpose of the assistance was
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