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JERUSALEM (Press Release)–Simon Wiesenthal Center called upon the German authorities to make a final effort to bring to justice two convicted but unpunished Nazi war criminals living in Germany and to open the files of the BND (German Secret Service) regarding the postwar escape of notorious Holocaust perpetrators. In an op-ed piece published Monday in […]

  WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–The Congressional Research Service, trying to keep up with fast moving events in Egypt, has issued a background study guide for members of Congress on the crisis over President Hosni Mubarak’s continued rule:

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Award winning filmmakers, Isaac and Jude Artenstein are readying production in San Diego for the first professional documentary spotlighting the Jewish Experience in the Southwest. The overall goal of Frontier Jews is to provide new insight into a part of American Jewish history that is an important missing piece of the

NEW YORK (WJC) — Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice-president of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, has accused Egyptian opposition leader Mohammed ElBaradei of covering up Iran’s true nuclear ambitions when he directed the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN nuclear watchdog, in Vienna. “He is a stooge of Iran, and I

RAMALLAH, Palestine Authority (WJC)– Riyad al-Malki, the Palestinian Authority’s foreign minister, has said that the Republic of Cyprus – a member state of the European Union – had recognized a Palestinian state within the pre-1967 borders. Al-Malki told the French news agency AFP the move had been “formalized” in a letter sent by Cyprus President

  BEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release)—  “Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak needs a miracle to survive the presidency,” according to Egypt expert, Yoram Meital, who is Chairman of the Herzog Center for Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. However, he thinks that a victory for the Muslim Brotherhood should not be seen as a

SIMPSON BAY, St. Maarten (WJC)–The Jewish community of St. Maarten, a Dutch and French-owned island in the Caribbean, has opened its first synagogue since the 18th century. The shul on the Dutch side of the island  is part of a new Chabad Center operated by Rabbi Moshe and Sara Chanowitz. It is part of an

LIMA (WJC)–Peru has joined other Latin American states in recognizing a Palestinian state. “Today the government communicated to the ambassador of Palestine in Lima recognition of the Palestinian state as free and sovereign,” Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde said in the capital Lima last Monday. He did not specify the borders of the state

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Wednesday designated Lebanese narcotics trafficker Ayman Joumaa, as well as nine individuals and 19 entities connected to his drug trafficking and money laundering organization as Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers (SDNTs) pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act).

OSWIECIM, Poland (Press Release)— On the 66th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1945, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation announces its “Intervene Now!” campaign.  “Intervene Now!” is an initiative to engage individuals, organizations and governments around the world to protect and preserve the authentic remains of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and the memory