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NEW YORK (Press Release)–Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker, Founder and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure®, the global leader of the breast cancer movement, was honored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) during a ceremony at its National Executive Committee meeting in Palm Beach, Florida. Amb. Brinker received the ADL Americanism Award, which recognizes individuals […]

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (WJC) — A Jewish former banker has been elected as vice-president of Costa Rica. Luis Liberman Ginsburg, 63, was running mate of Laura Chinchilla, whom voters in the Central American country elected on Sunday by a wide margin as their new president, and of Alfio Piva, who will also be a

PARIS (WJC)–Efforts to pass new UN sanctions on Iran are gathering speed after Tehran declared dead a proposal by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to which it had agreed in October 2009 in Geneva. US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he would like to see United Nations sanctions against Iran in a matter of

JERUSALEM (WJC)– The around half a million of Israeli citizens living overseas could soon get a vote in parliamentary elections. Under a bill presented by the Knesset members of  the Israel Beiteinu party, which is headed by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli citizens eligible to vote and holding citizenship for at least 10 years, would

TEHRAN (WJC)–President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has shocked the international community with his announcement that Iran would immediately start producing 20-percent-enriched uranium for use in its reactor in Tehran. Ahmadinejad only last week suggested that his regime might be willing to accept a proposal by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to enrich Iranian uranium abroad. “We

NEW YORK (Press Release)– EL AL, the national airline of Israel, is now offering passengers who purchase a ticket to Israel online an exclusive promotion with Ahava.  El Al passengers receive a voucher for a 30% discount on all full-priced Ahava  products and a 10% reduction on any sale priced items.  In addition to the discount, a

JERUSALEM (WJC)–Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has expressed his empathy for Israel and the Palestinians during the final day of a three-day visit to Israel. “Today, the safeguarding of Israel’s safety and its right to exist as a Jewish state is an ethical choice and a moral obligation, against the possibility of the return of