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NEW YORK (Press Release) –The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Sunday strongly criticized the conviction and sentencing of Alan Gross to 15 years in prison by a Cuban court and called on the Cuban government to release him on humanitarian grounds.  Gross, an American subcontractor on a U.S. Agency for International Development program and an active member of the Jewish […]

Editor’s Note: The Jewish Federation of San Diego County is participating in the relief effort described below: WASHINGTON, DC  (Press Release)– The Jewish Federations of North America has opened an emergency relief fund to provide aid and support to the victims of the 8.9 magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami that struck Japan earlier today, and

JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Seeking to bridge the gap between the religious and secular communities, Tzohar (Hebrew for “Window”) will be hosting Megilla readings and Purim celebrations in more than 100 locations throughout Israel. “All Israelis love the fun costumes and the traditional Purim partying” says Nachman Rosenberg, Executive Vice President for Tzohar. “Our programs aim to enrich

By William Dudley EL CAJON, California — The ouster of Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak and other dramatic recent events in surrounding nations have raised much interest (and some worries) among Americans. Responding to such interest, the Arabic Club at Grossmont College here sponsored “The Arab World Today,” a forum held on campus on March 7.

LONDON (WJC)–At an event organized by the Community Security Trust of the British Jewish community, UK Prime Minister David Cameron has given a message of support for Israel. He told a dinner that after more than 100 rockets had been fired into Israel from Gaza in one year, the country within its right to search

KAMPALA, Uganda (Press Release)–At the behest of his Jewish, Muslim and Christian supporters, Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, a native of Uganda, is peacefully challenging the official results in the election to national parliament. The frontrunner leading up to the election, Rabbi Sizomu lost in the official count to the opponent Yahaya Gudoi the candidate from the

MANCHESTER, England (WJC) — The Islamist Hamas has said it would stop the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) from teaching Palestinian children in Gaza about the Holocaust. The history of the Shah is set to become part of a human rights curriculum in Gaza schools run by the UNRWA. These schools are attended

LONDON (WJC)–The founder of the controversial internet platform ‘WikiLeaks’, Julian Assange, has accused British journalists of a “Jewish conspiracy” against him, to deprive him of funds by Jewish donors. The accusation came in remarks published in the British magazine ‘Private Eye’, which was reporting on a phone call Assange made to the magazine’s editor two

SAN DIEGO  (Press Release)– Rabbi Martin S. Lawson has announced his plans to retire as spiritual leader of Temple Emanu-El on June 30, 2012.  “Although we are sad to see Rabbi Lawson leave in sixteen months, we will have been blessed with his spiritual leadership for 36 years,” said the congregation’s president Aaron Cohn.  A