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By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We have known for a long time that politicians talk, usually without having any effect. However, we have also learned to listen more carefully to some politicians than to others. When the President of the United States speaks, the world may not shake immediately, but it is more likely to […]

WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release) – The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Thursday  announced the identification of The Lebanese Canadian Bank SAL together with its subsidiaries (LCB) as a financial institution of primary money laundering concern under Section 311 of the USA PATRIOT Act (Section 311) for the bank’s role in facilitating the money laundering activities of

NEW YORK (Press Release)— Speaking to a private, invitation-only audience of American Friends of Tel Aviv University on February 4,  Prof. Asher Susser, Senior Research Fellow at Tel Aviv University’s Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, called the recent upheaval in Egypt indicative of a potentially greater Islamist influence in the region,

TEL AVIV (Press Release)— If Jerusalem is known as the city in which to pray, then neighboring Tel Aviv is definitely the place to play –– and study — according to travel authority Lonely Planet. Citing Tel Aviv as one of the world’s top three cities to visit in 2011 — New York claimed the #1 spot,

KRAKOW, Poland (WJC) — The former Swedish neo-Nazi leader Anders Högström, who organized the theft of the ‘Arbeit macht frei’ sign from Auschwitz, has been transferred to his home country to serve his three-year prison sentence. Högström was handed over to Swedish officials at Krakow Airport, according to media reports. Last December, a Polish court sentenced

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– Representatives Jim Moran of Virginia, John Conyers of Michigan, Raul Grijalva of Arizona, Michael Honda of  California, Jim McDermott of Washington, and Keith Ellison of Minnesota sent a letter to Speaker John Boehner asking the House to take up an emergency resolution to voice support for the Egyptian people. “The House of Representatives has

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano  met Monday with Turkish State Minister Hayati Yazici to discuss increasing collaboration between the United States and Turkey to combat terrorism and other transnational crime. During the meeting, Secretary Napolitano underscored the Obama administration’s commitment to working closely with Turkey to strengthen the security of the

   By Paul Greenberg   LA JOLLA, Caifornia — In his ambitious, fact-filled, quick moving, visually appealing, but at times quite disturbing 2009  documentary, War Against the Weak (English, 90 minutes), director Justin Strawhand effectively traces the history of the devolution of the theory and practices of eugenics from the 1880’s to the end of World War

Next Year in Bombay, directed by Jonas Pariente and Mathias Manyin, Chai Chai Films. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Less than an hour in length, the gentle documentary Next Year in Bombay  takes viewers on a visit to three Jewish communities in India.  First is the Konkan coast, about 25 miles from Bombay (Mumbai),

HAVANA (WJC)–Prosecutors in Cuba are reportedly seeking a 20-year prison sentence for the Jewish American Alan Gross, a US government contractor that the State Department says was assisting Cuban Jews. Gross is accused of “Acts Against the Independence and Territorial Integrity of the State,” the ‘Reuters’ news agency says, citing Cuban state media. The espionage

ANKARA (WJC)–Iran and Turkey have signed a trade pact which Tehran said could be worth up to US$ 30 billion over five years. “Iran and Turkey are two countries that complete each other,” Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted by Turkey’s Anadolu news agency as saying. Turkish State Minister Cevdet Yilmaz noted that