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'Non-Aryan' surprises found in Hitler's family tree

LONDON (WJC)–Nazi leader Adolf Hitler possibly had Jewish as well as African ancestors, according to a report by the British newspaper ‘Daily Express’, citing new DNA tests done in Belgium. Samples taken from Hitler’s relatives link him to both the Jewish community and people from northern Africa. Belgian journalist Jean-Paul Mulders said he had investigated

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Canadian Jewish Congress says Ottawa should decline to honor anti-Semitic former mayor

OTTAWA (WJC)–The Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) has criticized posthumous honors for the first female mayor of Ottawa because of her opposition to taking in Jewish refugees during World War II. CJC officials, writing in the ‘Ottawa Citizen’, charged that Charlotte Whitton, who served as mayor of Canada’s capital city from 1951 to 1956 and from 1960

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Pig's head at Lithuanian synagogue door enrages community

KAUNUS, Lithuania (WJC)–Jewish organizations in Lithuania have strongly condemned an apparent neo-Nazi attack in which a pig’s head was left Saturday at the entrance of a synagogue in the city of Kaunas. “The Lithuanian Jewish Community and the Religious Community of Lithuanian Jews judge this as Nazi provocation aimed at insulting the ethnic and religious

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Actor Richard Dreyfuss to keynote library's book festival Oct. 9

ENCINITAS, California (Press Release)–On October 9 from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m., the Encinitas library is hosting the San Diego County Library Book Festival.  The all-ages event will host popular authors, discussion panels, free entertainment and activities, as well as local food vendors. The Book Festival will feature: a keynote address by Richard Dreyfuss, who

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'Smart bomb' treatment could destroy cancer cells while avoiding neighboring healthy cells

TEL AVIV (Press Release) ― Chemotherapy, while an effective cancer treatment, also brings debilitating side effects such as nausea, liver toxicity and a battered immune system.  Now, a new way to deliver this life-saving therapy to cancer patients ― getting straight to the source of the disease — has been invented by Dr. Dan Peer

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A daughter-in-law's eulogy for San Diego's Idell Neumann

By Rabbi Patricia Karlin-Neumann PALO ALTO, California — My husband, George, and I were spending the weekend celebrating the wedding of our friends’ daughter when we learned that Idell Neumann—Baba in our household—had taken a turn for the worse.  Eight days later, a Sunday night, I was officiating at a wedding when she died.  The

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Shofars to be blown for peace on day before Rosh Hashanah

LA JOLLA, California (Press Release)–The grassroots group, San Diego Israel Coalition, has issued a call for shofar blowers to assemble at Congregation Beth El at 10 a.m., Tuesday, September 7–the day before Rosh Hashanah — to sound their support for “peace in Israel and around the world.” “The blowing of the Shofar at Rosh Hashanah

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