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Ukrainian policeman who rounded up, shot Jews ordered deported from U.S.

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 […]

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Scholars find dangerous ‘democratic gaps’ in Morocco, Saudi Arabia, but not in Jordan or Algeria

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

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Muslim leaders among inter-religious delegation visiting Auschwitz

  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

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Obama says he finds inspiration in Egyptian revolution

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

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Lise Lindstrom soars as “Turandot” and that’s for starters

SAN DIEGO–The San Diego Opera’s 2011 production of Puccini’s Turandot is the gift that keeps on giving that found this opera lovers heart pounding from the first sounds of conductor Edoardo Müller’s detail to Puccini’s music in leading the San Diego Opera Orchestra, to the exceptional way the large chorus, including a long procession of

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Wiesenthal Center calls on Germany to release post-war files on Nazis

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

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‘Tijuana Jews’ filmmakers turn their sights to frontier Jews north of the border

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

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Hoenlein contends ElBaradei is a ‘stooge’ of Iran

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

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Paraguay, Cyprus recognize independent Palestine within 1967 borders

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

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San Diego Jewish Film Festival preview: ‘Shorts in Winter’

By Yvonne Greenberg   LA JOLLA, Caifornia — “They usually run the gamut from things that have family disruption to political themes to musical,”  explained Joyce Axelrod in a phone interview about some of the plots in Shorts in Winter, a free San Diego Jewish Film Festival program on Monday, February 14 at Clairemont Reading

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