WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The President of the State of Israel, Shimon Peres, met on Wednesday, June 25, with President Obama at the White House. President Obama asked President Peres to join him at a meeting with the leadership of the Jewish community in the US; hosted a working lunch with Vice President Biden,
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Middle East, USA
NEW YORK (WJC) — World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder on Thursday, June 26, welcomed a decision by a court in Versailles, France to allow the extradition to Belgium of Mehdi Nemmouche, the man suspected of having perpetrated the murder of four people at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels a month
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InternationalMassive Times Square billboard calls for return of missing Israeli teens (JNS.org) A massive new billboard in Times Square calling for the return of the three missing Israeli teens has been launched by a local New York synagogue. The 40-foot-by-40-foot digital ad was purchased by the Young Israel of the West Side congregation for an
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International, Middle East, USAEditor’s Note: The full articles alluded to in this report may be accessed via the U-T website. The U-T’s People column on Page A-2 took up the comments Gary Oldman made about Jews in Hollywood (for which he later apologized). About Mel Gibson, Oldman said that the actor “is in a town run by Jews
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Jewish Religion, San Diego CountyWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The deleterious effects of racial profiling were discussed at a Capitol news conference by victims and representatives of the Progressive, Black, Hispanic, Asian-Pacific Caucuses in Congress. Among those addressing the conference was Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Maryland) who is a co-chair of the Progressive Caucus with Congressman John Conyers of Michigan.
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USA
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)—U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein (both D-California) on Wednesday, June 25, praised the passage of their resolution honoring the 150th anniversary of the Yosemite Grant Act, legislation signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1864 that permanently protected the Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove. “In 1864, in the middle of the
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Travel and Food
LOS ANGELES (SDJW) — Singer Merry Clayton, who was featured in the documentary 20 Feet From Stardom “has a long road to recovery” from a June 16 automobile accident in Los Angeles, according to manager and record producer Alan V. Abrahams. In a note sent Wednesday, June 25, to San Diego Jewish World, he verified
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Travel and FoodBy Dr. Daniel Mandel NEW YORK — The recent kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers near Hebron, who are now the subject of a massive Israeli military-security search, should give pause. Israel says it has evidence of involvement by Hamas, the U.S. and European Union-listed terrorist group that calls in its Charter for the worldwide murder
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Middle East, USABy Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA) — Taglit-Birthright Israel has passed a significant milestone with the designation of the program’s 400,000th participant: Ryan Hunter, 20, a student from Syosset, New York (Long Island). By reaching this milestone, Taglit-Birthright Israel turns a corner and has now provided a free heritage trip to half of the young Jewish adults who are
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International, Middle East, USANEW YORK (WJC) – The World Jewish Congress on Wednesday, June 25, welcomed the passage in Israel this week of a law naming November 30 as the national day for commemorating the flight of Jewish refugees from Arab lands. “I am pleased that the Knesset has designated a day for public institutions to mark the
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Middle East
JERUSALEM (WJC)–Israeli Jews want the views of the Jewish Diaspora, and the impact Israeli government action could have on it, to be taken into account by their government, according to a new survey by the Israel Democracy Institute presented in Jerusalem on Wednesday, June 25. The newspaper ‘Haaretz’ reports that asked whether the Israeli government,
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International, Middle East, USA
LONDON (WJC) –The British actor Gary Oldman on Tuesday apologized after claiming in a ‘Playboy’ interview that Hollywood was a “town run by Jews.” Oldman said fellow actor and director Mel Gibson was being unfairly ostracized over his anti-Semitic remarks. Following criticism by Jewish organizations, Oldman issued an apology in which he described Jews as
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International, Jewish Religion, USA
WARSAW (Press Release) – Polish, American, and Israeli government officials joined AJC leadership, including AJC President Stanley Bergman, in Belzec on Wednesday, June 25, to mark the tenth anniversary of the memorial and museum erected at the site of the Nazi death camp in southeastern Poland. “Belzec is a stark lesson that we must never
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International, Middle East, USABy Lloyd Levy LONDON –Developments in the Middle East at this time, are so far reaching and rapid, that it is difficult to comprehend or estimate the final outcome. Although the threat to Israel from the new Islamic Caliphate is immense, the rise of a new State of Kurdistan, or even a new Druze State,
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Lloyd Levy, Middle East