Judaism

Venezuelan lawmaker: Zionists, Bushes funded Hitler

NEW YORK (WJC) — A lawmaker of Venezuela’s governing party recently told Lebanese television that Zionists had bankrolled Hitler prior to World War II and suggested that “no representatives of global Zionism” had been killed during the Nazi Holocaust for that reason. Speaking in Arabic, Adel El Zabayar, a member of Venezuela’s National Assembly born […]

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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USA

Former prisoner Mendelevitch returns to Russia

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (Press Release) – Former Prisoner of Zion Yosef Mendelevitch made an emotional return to the city where he was imprisoned in the 1970s to join hundreds of Jews from across Russia for the 4th Annual Limmud FSU (former Soviet Union) St. Petersburg during the Nov. 28-30 weekend. The three-day Jewish learning festival, at the

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International, Jewish History, Middle East

Bern museum publishes list of Gurlitt art collection

BERN, Switzerland(WJC)–The Kunstmuseum Bern, which earlier this week accepted the Gurlitt bequest, has published a list of all art works found in the possession of the late Cornelius Gurlitt. The museum was named as sole heir to the collection and on Monday reluctantly accepted the bequest, pledging total transparency to head off any criticism over

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Jewish History

Turkish governor apologizes to chief rabbi

ISTANBUL, Turkey (WJC)– A provincial governor of Turkey whose anger at Israel led him to call for turning a synagogue into a museum, has apologized to the country’s chief rabbi – though he claimed he was misunderstood. Dursun Şahin, governor of the northwestern Edirne province, offered an “apology” that expressed “profound sadness” that his words

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Jewish History, Middle East

Does the theory of evolution need updating?

The Evolution Revolution: Why Thinking People are Rethinking the Theory of Evolution by Lee Spetner, Judaica Press, Brooklyn, NY; ISBN 978-1-60763-155-2 ©2014, $17.95, p. 145, plus references and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California –Showing that common descent, the belief that all of life has a universal ancestor, first proposed by Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis in

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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion, Science, Medicine, & Education

Who are Abraham and Sarah’s other descendants?

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO–This week’s parasha begins with Yitzchak’s genealogy: “These are the generations of Yitzchak the son of Avraham. Avraham begot Yitzchak.” (Gen. 25:19) Usually when we think about generations of human beings and their descendants we are referring to their children, grandchildren, nephews and nieces, and other family members of the next

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Jewish Religion