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LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) – The 16th Annual San Diego Jewish Book Fair presents four approaches to Jewish humor with movie producer and writer Sam Hoffman on Fri., Nov. 5 at noon; satirist Gary Shteyngart exchanging witty repartee with Mark Oppenheimer on Sat., Nov. 6 at 7:30 p.m.; and a side-splitting evening of stand-up

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WJC)–More than 20,000 artworks stolen by the Nazis from Jews can now be searched in an online catalog. A new online database lets Holocaust survivors and their relatives search details of the artifacts looted during World War II in Nazi-occupied France and Belgium. The database is a joint project of the Conference of

MELBOURNE (WJC)–Several Australian labor unions have endorsed the international campaign to boycott Israeli goods from the West Bank and are campaigning to get a boycott adopted by the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the umbrella body. The Electrical Trades Union, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union, the Queensland branch

HAIFA (Press Release) — “Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Lebanon is intended to remind all of Lebanon’s denominations that Iran will not tolerate any harm to Hezbollah’s power and status,” says Dr. Soli Shahvar, Director of the Ezri Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at the University of Haifa. Hezbollah was established as a branch

ROME (WJC)–At a synod of Catholic bishops dealing with the Middle East , Rabbi David Rosen said  “Christians in Israel are obviously in a very different situation from their sister communities in the Holy Land, who are part and parcel of a Palestinian society struggling for its independence and who are inevitably caught up in

MIAMI (Press Release)– In addition to prayer services, group dialogues and peace finding missions, music has increasingly become a venue for nurturing relationships between Christians and Jews among local communities. To further the message of building understanding among the two faiths, the Holy See is creating additional opportunities to worship through music. Sixteen members of

HAVANA – In a three-day series of interviews in September with correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg, Fidel Castro reflected upon anti-Semitism, Iran and Israel. He told of believing as a child that the Jews killed Jesus, but not knowing exactly what a Jew was.  He reflected that Jews have been persecuted for 2,000 years, and may have

MADRID (WJC)–The European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation (ECTR), which operates under the auspices of the European Jewish Congress (EJC), has bestowed Spanish King Juan Carlos with the first ever European Medal of Tolerance. The award was conferred on the king on Monday in Madrid by the co-chairmen of the ECTR, former Polish President Aleksander

NEW YORK (Press Release) –The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) posthumously honored Horst Lantzsch for his courage and bravery in defying the Nazis to save his Jewish friend from a concentration camp during the Holocaust. The ADL Courage to Care Award, which honors rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust era, was presented to Lantzsch’s daughter, Ursula E.