Jews from former Soviet Union to gather, learn in Moscow

MOSCOW, Russia (Press Release) – Over 1,000 Jewish participants, mainly from across Russia, will gather in Moscow, April 24-27 for the Limmud FSU Moscow conference, which is considered the largest Jewish gathering in the former Soviet Union. Limmud FSU conferences are also considered to be among the leading Jewish cultural events in the FSU, and provide

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International, Science, Medicine, & Education

Ukrainian Jews told to register with Donetsk government; world reaction to leaflets is swift and condemnatory

DONETESK, Ukraine (WJC) — Armed men have handed out a leaflet calling on Jews to register their religion and property with the interim pro-Russian government or face deportation and loss of citizenship. The leaflet distributed in Donetsk, Ukraine calling for all Jews over 16 years old to register as Jews is the latest worry of

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International

JNS news briefs: April 17, 2014

Israeli-Palestinian negotiations move forward despite terror attack (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to move forward with peace negotiations with the Palestinians despite Monday’s terror attack in which a police officer was killed on his way to a Passover seder with his family. A meeting between the negotiating teams was

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International

If this NYT Op-Ed on Israel were graded, it wouldn’t pass

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–There’s another New York Times Op-Ed on Israel. This one praises Iran’s move away from theocracy and toward secularism, while describing Israel is moving in the opposite direction. It seems a bit premature to applaud any sign of reasonable activity from the mullah’s of Iran, I am even less certain that the authors (one Iranian

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Western Europe most critical region about religion

ZURICH, Switzerland (Press Release) – A global poll by WIN/Gallup International has revealed that over half of respondents believe that religion plays a positive role in their country, with people in Western Europe recording significantly lower positive results than other regions. Highlights Over half (59%) of global respondents said that religion plays a  positive role. 22% of

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Travel and Food

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, February 7, 1958,m Part 1

Attention Family Historians:  If you would like a JPG photo copy from the Southwestern Jewish Press of any “Adventures in San Diego Jewish History” article that has been reprinted on the San Diego Jewish World website, simply copy the website address of the article, and send it along with the article’s headline, with a $5 payment

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Adventures in SD History

U.N. Amb. Power: World must stop Syrian murders

  UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (Press Release) — Ambassador Samantha Power, the U.S. permanent representatitve to the United Nations, said on Wednesday, April 16, that the world must do more to stop mass killings and atrocities in Syria. At a Security Council briefing on the prevention and fight against genocide, she described as “devastating” crimes against

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Middle East, USA

White House official: terrorism prevention starts at home

BOSTON (Press Release) –President Obama’s assistant for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, Lisa Monaco, told a forum at Harvard’s Kennedy School that to prevent terrorism families and communities must be aware and ready to intervene when someone’s behavior lurches towards violence. Following is a partial text of her speech, delivered Tuesday, April 15: * “We’ve faced

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USA

AJC: Rima Khalaf should be fired from U.N. post

NEW YORK (Press Release)—AJC called on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to remove Rima Khalaf from her position as UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). “Under-Secretary General Khalaf’s profound and all-too-obvious animus against one UN member state, Israel, has betrayed her fundamental responsibility as

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Middle East

Retired general seeks demolition of Sinai monastery

SINAI DESERT, Egypt (ETN) — It’s a major travel and tourism attraction in Egypt, and a UNESCO heritage site – yet a former Egyptian general wants St Catherine’s Monastery–by tradition built at the site of Moses’ well– demolished. The monastery’s lawyer, Ihab Ramzy, said that in May 2012 Ahmed Ragai Attiya obtained 71 administrative orders

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Travel and Food