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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

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