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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The San Diego Museum of Man (SDMoM), a cultural and physical anthropology museum in Balboa Park, announced on Monday that it joins 164 cultural institutions as an Affiliate  of  the Smithsonian Institution. On Friday, January 14, Harold Closter, director of Smithsonian Affiliations, will formally present SDMoM with its Certificate of Affiliation. […]

 TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Your plane has levelled at 30,000 feet.  The seatbelt sign is off.  Time to relax with onboard entertainment — and now you’ll have even more choices on El Al’s international flights. In a first-of-its-kind agreement, the carrier’s Boeing 777s will offer a menu of short films created by Tel Aviv University’s

By Michael H. Posner WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Although it has held a series of troubling elections this year, Egypt has an opportunity to fulfill the commitments its government has made to the Egyptian people as it prepares for next year’s presidential election, if it takes steps to implement several changes to which it has

BRUSSELS (WJC)–Jordanian King Abdullah has stressed the need for inter-faith dialogue in order to build bridges of tolerance and understanding between different cultures. In a speech to leaders of the European People’s Party in Brussels, attended by 20 European presidents and prime ministers as well as the heads of EU institutions, Abdullah emphasized the need

LOS ANGELES (WJC) — A video game in which Jewish concentration camp inmates kill Nazi guards has been criticized by Jewish organizations. The game ‘Sonderkommando Revolt’ is based on a real-life uprising by Jews who were assigned to burning the corpses of the gassed and robbing their bodies of gems and gold teeth (the so-called ‘Sonderkommando’,

HOLLYWOOD (WJC)–The actress Winona Ryder has claimed that American actor and film director Mel Gibson, 56, made “anti-Semitic and homophobic” remarks long before he was caught on tape making such comments. In the new issue of the men’s magazine GQ, Ryder said that the actor and director was anti-Semitic and homophobic, but “No one believed

BERLIN (Press Release) — The German government is to pay € 60 million (US$ 80 million) over the coming months into a fund for the preservation of the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Notably the former gas chambers and other evidence of crimes committed at the camp are deteriorating to the point of collapse. Germany

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday announced the launch of the Palestinian Information Communications Technology Capacity Building Initiative (PITI). This initiative is designed to enhance Palestinian economic capacity in the information communications technology (ICT) sector by facilitating partnerships between Palestinian ICT companies and U.S. multinational companies, particularly those with operations in the

 PORTLAND, Oregon (Press Release) – A federal Grand Jury sitting in Portland has charged Hossein Lahiji, 47, of McAllen, Texas, Najmeh Vahid, 35, of San Antonio, Texas and Ahmad Iranshahi, 53, of Tehran, Iran, in a two-count indictment charging conspiracy to defraud the United States and to commit money laundering. The indictment alleges that the

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Mike Hammer, spokesman for the U.S. National Security Council, issued a statement on Thursday, Dec. 16, deploring an attack by Sudanese armed forces on the village of Khor Abeche in South Darfur.  Here is the statement: The United States is deeply concerned about reports that the Sudanese Armed Forces attacked

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– President Barack Obama issued the following statement on Wednesday, Dec. 15, from the White House: “I strongly condemn the outrageous terrorist attack on a mosque in Chabahar, Iran. “The murder of innocent civilians in their place of worship during Ashura is a despicable offense, and those who carried it out must be

BRNO, Czech Republic  (WjC) — The  Constitutional Court here has rejected a restitution claim brought by the descendants of the Jewish owner of a button factory seized by the Nazis in 1939 and nationalized in 1945. The court overturned a 2009 Supreme Court ruling and previous rulings of lower courts that had found in favor

DAKAR (WJC)–Senegal has recalled its ambassador in Tehran after Iran failed to provide a “satisfactory” explanation for arms sent from Iran and discovered in a Nigerian port in October. Senegal, judging that “explanations provided on this affair by the Iranian side are not satisfactory, has decided to recall its ambassador for consultations,” the foreign ministry