Travel and Food

HAIFA, Israel (Press Release)–The more time adolescent girls spend in front of Facebook, the more their chances of developing a negative body image and various eating disorders, such as anorexia, bulimia and exaggerated dieting. This has been shown in a new study from the University of Haifa. Eating disorders include a wide spectrum of abnormal […]

HOLLYWOOD (Press Release)–A friend of the US actor and film director Mel Gibson said the latter but had tried to goad a police officer into drawing his weapon and shoot by hurling anti-Semitic slurs at him after he stopped Gibson for drink driving. The incident in 2007 led to the steady decline of Gibson’s once

LONDON (WJC)–The second highest number of anti-Semitic incidents was recorded in the UK last year, the Community Security Trust (CST) of the British Jewish community said. More than 639 complaints about violence and abuse against Jews or Jewish institutions were received last year. They included street attacks, hate mail, threats, and the vandalism and desecration

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – U.S. Senators Frank R. Lautenberg (D-New Jersey), Mike Johanns (R-Nebraska) and nine of their Senate colleagues have called on the German government to stop the Hamburg-based bank, Europäisch-Iranische Handelsbank (EIH), from providing financial support for Iran’s nuclear program.  The Senators wrote to the German Foreign Minister expressing their concern that EIH

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – An immigration judge in Detroit has ordered John (Ivan) Kalymon of Troy, Mich., removed from the United States because of his participation in Nazi-sponsored acts of persecution while serving during World War II as an armed member of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (UAP) in Nazi-occupied L’viv, Ukraine, announced Assistant Attorney General

JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Research carried out at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem shows that it was possible already in 2008 to predict that countries such as Egypt and Iran were headed for dangerous periods of instability because of citizens’ demands for democratization. The researchers were able to make this observation on the basis of a

  OSWIECIM, Poland (WJC)– A large delegation of Muslim leaders has visited Auschwitz to pay tribute to the millions of Jews and others killed in the Holocaust. The group of some 150 people included representatives from Morocco, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq, as well as rabbis, Holocaust survivors and Christian representatives such as Cardinals André Vingt-Trois

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–President Barack Obama briefed the American people on Tuesday about the unfolding situation in Egypt.   Here are his remarks: THE PRESIDENT:  Good evening, everybody.  Over the past few days, the American people have watched the situation unfolding in Egypt.  We’ve seen enormous demonstrations by the Egyptian people.  We’ve borne witness to the