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NEW YORK (Press Release)–A school district rule barring religious holiday music at holiday assemblies celebrating the same holiday is constitutionally sound, and does not reflect impermissible hostility to religion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held on Tuesday.  The opinion quoted approvingly at length from the amicus brief filed by AJCongress asserting

LONDON (WJC)–The British airline EasyJet has apologized after fashion photos shot at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin were published in its in-flight magazine. In the pictures, models were photographed among concrete blocks in the Field of Stelae. The airline said that it apologized to anyone who had been offended by the shoot and said that

BRESCIA, Italy (WJC)–Two Pakistanis suspected of helping facilitate the November 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai have been arrested in Italy. The men, a father and son, were arrested Saturday in the northern Italian city of Brescia. Ten terrorists believed to have come from Pakistan carried out the attacks in the India city. Over 170 people

BUDAPEST (WJC)– A member of the extreme-right Hungarian party Jobbik has promised the extermination of “vermin” in a forthcoming “cleansing” of the Hungarian nation. The man made the remark during a mass rally organized by the party commemorating the rule of Miklós Horthy, the Hungarian leader who authorized the deportation of half a million Hungarian

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Press Release)– Senior Judge Robert L. Echols of the Middle District of Tennessee on Monday sentenced Michael Corey Golden to 14 years and three months in prison and three years of supervised released for vandalizing and burning down the Islamic Center of Columbia, Tenn., the Justice Department announced. Golden pleaded guilty on Nov.

MOBILE, Alabama (Press Release)–Jacques Monsieur, a Belgian national and resident of France suspected of international arms dealing for decades, pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama to conspiracy to illegally export F-5 fighter jet engines and parts from the Untied States to Iran. Monsieur along with Dara Fotouhi, aka

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