PARIS (WJC) — France’s National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism (BNVCA) reports that a Jewish mother and her six-month-old baby were attacked and insulted at a bus stop in Paris’ Montmartre district earlier this week. According to a report filed by the attacker, whom the victim described as a European woman in her 50s, shook the Jewish woman’s […]
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International
SOMA, Turkey (WJC) — Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan screamed an anti-Israeli slur at a Turkish citizen during protests against him in the city of Soma, where earlier this week nearly 300 coal workers were killed when a mine collapsed. Video footage of Erdoğan being surrounded by angry protesters show him insulting a protestor with
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Middle East
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (WJC) –A federal court here declared unconstitutional last year’s memorandum of understanding which the Argentine government concluded with Iran in order to probe the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires, which Argentine prosecutors blame on Iran. The federal court quashed a lower court ruling which said the deal
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International, Middle East
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told the AJC Global Forum on Thursday, May 15, that “no deal is better than a bad deal” regarding current negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program. Speaking before an audience of more than 2,000 people from 70 countries gathered for AJC’s signature
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)– U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i) stood with students Thursday, May 15, and sent a letter to U.S. Department of Education urging it to put in place stronger protections for students in career education programs—particularly those at for-profit colleges—who take on significant debt to attend but are frequently left with meager job prospects.
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–A bipartisan resolution introduced by U.S. Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) earlier this spring has now passed the Senate unanimously. The senators’ resolution brings attention to the women in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and across the country who, as a result of the Expatriation Act of 1907, had their citizenship stripped
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)—Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) this week introduced a Senate resolution recognizing May as National Cancer Research Month. As co-chairs of the bipartisan Senate Cancer Coalition, Feinstein and Isakson introduced the resolution to honor contributions made by scientists, clinicians and patient advocates who have committed themselves to finding a
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
SAN DIEGO — The U-T’s “Night and Day” section posed to restaurateur Charles Kaufman of Bread & Cie Café the question of what restaurant, other than his own of course, is his favorite. He picked Counterpoint at 830 25th St., complimenting its food and ambience, but most of all its staff, whom he described as
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San Diego County
By Dmitriy Shapiro/JNS.org/Washington Jewish Week WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, the possible GOP presidential contender who raised the hackles of many a pro-Israel Republican with an off-the-cuff remark in March about the “occupied territories” of the West Bank, will get another chance to appeal to high-profile Jewish donors this Sunday.
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Middle East, USAJERUSALEM (Press Release) –“Price tag” attacks — violence by radical settlers imposing a “cost” on divergence from their political agenda – have reached epidemic levels inside Israel, with nearly daily incidents over the last few months. In particular, attacks on Arab property and mosques inside Israel are on the upswing. In response, the NIF-convened Tag
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Middle East
By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) – Wall paintings recounting the Crusader history of Jerusalem were recently exposed by chance when the sisters of Saint-Louis Hospital, near the Old City of Jerusalem, were organizing the storerooms. In addition, a burst water pipe in the building revealed drawings that were concealed beneath modern plaster and paint. The
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Middle East
JERUSALEM (Press Release) – The 2014 Nefesh B’Nefesh Bonei Zion Prizes were awarded Thursday, May 15 at an official ceremony in the Knesset, hosted by the Speaker of the Knesset MK Yuli (Yoel) Edelstein. Nefesh B’Nefesh works in partnership with the Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption, The Jewish Agency for Israel, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael and JNF
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Middle East, USA
DELMAR, New York (Press Release)–The Bronfman Fellowships has selected its 28th cohort of high school students, among them a varsity hockey player who founded a popular prayer service at her school; a saxophonist, clarinetist and composer who has performed at Lincoln Center; an avid participant in Revolutionary War reenactments; and a budding scientist who works
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — It’s not every day I get mail from a rabbi, but every once in a while it happens and I love it. It just so happens today I got mail from both a rabbi in Britain and a psychiatrist in Milwaukee whose son is a rabbi. I think
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