NEW YORK (Press Release)–John Henry Weidner, a Dutch hero who helped save more than 1,000 individuals, including approximately 800 Jews, from the Holocaust, has been posthumously honored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) with the ADL Jan Karski Courage to Care Award. Established in 1987 to honor rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust era, the
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Jewish History
NEW YORK (Press Release)– U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power told the AJC (American Jewish Committee) Board of Governors on Monday, Feb. 10, that the United States “strongly supports Israel’s candidacy” for a seat on the UN Security Council. “We have pushed relentlessly for the full inclusion of Israel across the UN system,” Power
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InternationalNEW YORK (Press Release) — Abraham H. Foxman on Monday, Feb. 10, announced he will step down from his position as National Director of the Anti-Defamation League on July 20, 2015, bringing to a close a 50-year career in Jewish communal service. “For almost five decades, ADL offered me the perfect vehicle to live a
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USA
By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — In this world of hyper-narcissism, digital obsession, and, yes, endemic contempt for the miraculous redemption that Israel happens to be, the premature death of Anne Heyman has gone largely unnoticed. It’s not like unlike the manner in which Israel’s undeniable flaws have been co-opted to service its global
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InternationalBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — It has been said that Jordan is the only Arab country in which Palestinians have “full citizenship.” That is less than a complete truth. As Secretary of State John Kerry pursues his plan for a “two state solution,” the insecurity of Palestinian legal status in Jordan is emerging. Israel’s
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen
By Robert Gluck/JNS.org On Feb. 14 each year, many Americans attend screenings of “Casablanca,” rent the movie, or view it in another way for Valentine’s Day. As time goes by, the Jewish influences on the Oscar-winning 1940s romantic film become more apparent. Jews involved in the production of “Casablanca” include Murray Burnett, the author of
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Travel and Food
By Rafael Medoff/JNS.org The new George Clooney film, The Monuments Men, tells the thrilling story of U.S. military personnel who during World War II risked their lives to rescue paintings by the likes of Rembrandt, Picasso, and Chagall that the Nazis had stolen. But for Connecticut civil rights attorney Bill Bingham, the story is
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Travel and FoodBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO―Spectators were dazzled by the pyrotechnics, luminescent colors, and special effects of the opening ceremony at the Sochi Winter Olympics. Although Russia claimed it cost a fortune to produce and featured thousands of Russians, conspiracy theorists suspect it was merely a holographic projection of scenes from Avatar and Tron. * Under
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
ATHENS (WJC) –The leftist Greek party Syriza dropped a controversial candidate for the post of regional governor of Western Macedonia after he had made headlines with anti-Semitic statements. Syriza announced that journalist Theodoros Karypidis would not be running on the party’s ticket. In a brief statement, the party’s secretariat revealed that Karypidis would no longer
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International
BUDAPEST (WJC)–Hungary’s main Jewish umbrella organization voted on Sunday to boycott official Holocaust commemorations this year unless the role of locals in the Nazi deportation and killing of Hungarian Jews is made clear. The Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities (Mazsihisz) decided to stay away from events marking the 70th anniversary of the deportation of
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InternationalNetanyahu and Obama to meet in U.S. in March (JNS.org) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House and deliver a speech at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual conference in Washington, DC, during his five-day U.S. visit in the first week of March. According to
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International
By Aryeh Savir An agreement recently signed between the IDF Medical Corps and the American Air Force Medical Department will enable both sides to work more closely together, sharing and developing techniques and technologies that will save lives on the battlefield and during humanitarian rescue missions. At the conclusion of U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General (Dr.)
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Science, Medicine, & EducationNEW YORK (Press Release)–AJC deplores the abominable treatment of gays in Nigeria. The harassment, imprisonment and torture of gays, sanctioned by a Nigerian law enacted last month, was the focus of a major front-page story in the New York Times of Sunday, Feb. 9. “Nigeria’s unforgiving attitude towards gays violates the most basic human rights
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International, Travel and Food