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RIO DE JANEIRO (WJC)–Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is due in Brazil this week for what will be the first state visit by an Iranian head of state. The trip has already generated protests in which thousands of demonstrators, many of them Jews, took to the streets of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Protests in […]

SANA’A, Yemen (WJC)–Agents in Yemen have reportedly arrested two men who planned to assassinate Rabbi Yahya Yusuf Musa, the head of the small Jewish community in the predominantly Muslim country, after he had criticized Shiite rebels in northern Yemen for fighting against the government in a television interview . Musa told Reuters that he believed

DVAR TORAH: Toldos By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO–Yaakov left his father’s tent at the precise same moment that Esav entered the tent, just like two people going through a revolving door, so they did not see each other. Had the timing been off by even one second, the angry Esav would have killed Yaakov

WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)–The following statement was issued Friday by U.S. State Department spokesman Robert Wood: “The United States welcomes the resolution passed today by the United Nationscalling upon the Government of Iran to respect its human rights obligations fully. In addition to longstanding concerns about the human rights situation in Iran, the resolution expresses

MERTHYR TYDFIL, Wales (WJC)–The oldest synagogue of Wales, in the United Kingdom, is to be converted into apartments provided planning permission is granted, the ‘Jewish Chronicle’ reports. The synagogue in Merthyr Tydfil, a town with 30,000 inhabitants, was built in the 1870s. It is currently empty and has been a target for vandals. The neo-Gothic

DUISBURG, Germany (WJC)–A 90-year-old former SS member has been charged by German prosecutors with the killing of 58 Jewish forced laborers in the final days of World War II. Adolf Storms is accused of murdering the workers in Deutsch-Schützen, a village in eastern Austria, at the end of World War II. The victims’ remains were

OTTAWA (WJC)–The Federal Court of Appeal has ordered the Canadian Government to revisit its decision to strip a suspected Nazi war criminal, the Ukrainian-born Helmut Oberlander, of his Canadian citizenship. In a 2-1 decision, the court told the Cabinet in Ottawa to reconsider the issue of whether Oberlander was a willing member of an SS

TEHRAN (WJC)–Five people were been sentenced to death and 81 received jail terms in connection with post-election unrest in Iran, prosecutors in Tehran have said. The Iranian Justice Department said those facing the death penalty were members of “terrorist and opposition groups.” No names were given. The statement released by prosecutors in Tehran on Tuesday

By David Amos SAN DIEGO–We know the great musicians of the past from the legacy of wonderful music they left us. But, we may not be familiar with their writing and comments. Some composers were quiet, shy, and introverted, while others were notorious conversationalists, humorists, writers, and commentators on many social issues of the time.

  By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO–Avraham & Sarah, Yitzchok & Rivkah all lived their lives with faith and dedication to Hashem. They understood the power of mitzvos and prayer, and they realized the Hashem  runs the world. This is an inheritance to their descendents as the following true story illustrates:   There was a