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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The wife of a Jewish American aid worker jailed in Havana for allegedly being a spy has written a letter to Cuban President Raúl Castro expressing regret for his actions. The ‘Reuters’ news agency also reported that Judy Gross, wife of US Agency for International Development employee Alan Gross, had claimed President […]

BERLIN (WJC)–A task force of historians commissioned in 2005 by then German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer has found that during the Nazi-era many diplomats at the Foreign Office were in the Holocaust and covered up their involvement in the crimes after the end of World War II. Fischer said he was “disgusted” by the revelations.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Jordan’s Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh, along with Daniel Yohannes, chief executive officer of the Millenium Challenge Corporation, signed an agreement on Monday, Oct. 25, to upgrade Jordan’s water supply in the Zarqa area. Following is a text of comments made at that ceremony: MR.

NEW YORK (Press Release)– The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned Hollywood’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for intending to award an honorary Oscar to French-Swiss filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, a virulent anti-Semite of long-standing. Godard, one of the French New Wave film directors, like Francois Truffaut, with whom Godard fell out over anti-Semitic

 SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — “An Evening with Joan Rivers”  will be presented at the Balboa Theatre downtown on Saturday, January 15  at 8 p.m.    Considered  one of the hardest-working celebrities in the world,  she’s an internationally renowned comedienne, Emmy-winning television talk show host, Tony®-nominated actress, best-selling author, playwright, screenwriter, motion picture director, columnist, lecturer,

NEW YORK (WJC)–The headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in New York has announced plans for rebuilding Nariman House in Mumbai, nearly two years after it was attacked by Islamist terrorists. The organization said that the top floor of the refurbished Jewish center in the Indian city would be turned into a memorial dedicated to Rabbi

MUMBAI (WJC)–Twenty-one people were involved in plotting the terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai in November 2008, including four serving officers of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and three former officers of the Pakistani Army, the suspected terrorist David Headley has reportedly told Indian investigators in June 2010. Headley, who was born Daood Sayed

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (WJC)–A new law passed by authorities  in this southern Brazilian city will require all public schools to include Holocaust education in their curriculum. The measure will affect an estimated 60,000 students at 96 schools. Porto Alegre recent suffered a series of neo-Nazi incidents. The new law is the first of its kind