VIENNA (WJC)–Moments after presiding over a public Chanukah menorah lighting in central Vienna’s Stephansplatz Square on Saturday evening, Dov Gruzman, a rabbi of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, had to be evacuated by ambulance after being attacked by a Palestinian man, who bit his finger. Gruzman, who serves as principal of the Lauder Chabad High School […]
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Middle EastATLANTA, Georgia (Press Release)– Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, 23, of Roswell, Ga., and Syed Haris Ahmed, 25, of Atlanta, were sentenced Monday in federal court following their convictions earlier this year in separate but related criminal trials, the Justice Department announced. “With their words and their actions, these defendants supported the wrongheaded but very dangerous idea
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release)–Following is the text of a joint news conference held by U.S. President Barack Obama and Lebanon’s Michel President Sleiman on Monday. PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you very much, everybody. I want to welcome President Sleiman and his delegation for the excellent visit that we’ve had. I thought that this meeting was critical
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By Ulla Hadar DEAD SEA, ISRAEL–Last weekend the 5th of December was the date for the 2nd annualChallenge run held at the Dead Sea. This event is only one of several Ultra runs that has been introduced in Israel in the last few years. 250 runners set out on one of the three courses offered,
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Compiled by Gail Umeham ** United Jewish Fund Head Outlines Plans for 1954 Campaign Southwestern Jewish Press February 6, 1954 Page 1 Louis Moorsteen, newly elected president of the United Jewish Fund, announced that the 1954 campaign is scheduled to open on Monday, March 29. Selection of campaign leadership will take place during the early
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Adventures in SD History, Middle East, San Diego CalendarNEW YORK — The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations has launched a unique website with Israel’s Ministry of Tourism dedicated to Chanukah. The site, http://chanukah.goisrael.com, allows virtual “travelers” to log on and light candles for each night of the holiday. With each candle “lit,” visitors to the Chanukah website will be able
JOINS IN—Eitan Frysh, a senior at San Diego Jewish Academy, joins with singers of the Israel Defense Forces at Friends of the IDF campus appearance. _____________________________________________ By Yiftach Levy SAN DIEGO, California–What can you say when a concert experience runs the gamut from deeply moving to bizarrely surrealistic to profoundly annoying to just plain fun?
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By J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida–Sometimes you live too long and know too much. I celebrated my 96th birthday last week so I was around when East Jerusalem and the West Bank of Jordan were conquered by Israel in 1967. I learned from an aide to Teddy Kollek what he and Moshe Dayan were
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Salita at Ha Kotel _____________________________________________________ JERUSALEM (Press Release)—World renowned Orthodox Jewish American boxer Dmitriy Salita – “the Star of David” – visited Israel for the first time with his wife as a guest of the Aliyah organization Nefesh B’Nefesh. The 27 year old North American Light Welterweight Champion from Brooklyn, NY, has been enjoying his
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Middle East, USABy Peter Eisner LA JOLLA, California–Sol Price, the founder of Price Club and the acknowledged father of warehouse superstores who was a life-long advocate of liberal politics and quietly gave millions to charity, died at his home in La Jolla, California, on Monday at the age of 93. His family said he had been in
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Jewish History, San Diego Calendar, USANEW YORK (Press Release)–The arson attack on a mosque in the West Bank village of Yasuf is an unspeakable outrage and a profound embarrassment to the entire Jewish people. Those responsible for the attack damaged not only a peaceful holy place, but the possibility of Jewish-Moslem reconciliation. What is most disturbing of all is that
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Middle EastLONDON (WJC)–The eminent historian Andrew Roberts has said that the British government had a de facto ban in place on state visits by Queen Elizabeth II to Israel. “The true reason of course, is that the FO [Foreign Office] has a ban on official royal visits to Israel, which is even more powerful for its
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Middle EastLONDON (WJC)–A report by the British newspaper ‘The Times’ claims that Iran is testing a key final component of an atomic bomb. Notes referred to by the newspaper describe a plan by Tehran to test a neutron initiator, the component of a nuclear bomb that triggers an explosion. Foreign intelligence agencies have reportedly dated the
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–An American friend shows his concern for Palestinians with several questions that deserve answers: 1. Why is there not much support, or any, for a Palestinian State composed only of territory on the West Bank? Wouldn’t it be better to take that incremental step and deal with Gaza (Hamas) later? 2. The
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA