By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Major events in Lebanon,Tunis and Egypt, along with lesser noises from Yemen and Jordan have excited the Israeli and international peace camps to insist on greater efforts by Israel, the United States and others. If not, Israel will pay a heavy price in inevitable violence, and the rest of the world will
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastTEL AVIV (Press Release)— If Jerusalem is known as the city in which to pray, then neighboring Tel Aviv is definitely the place to play –– and study — according to travel authority Lonely Planet. Citing Tel Aviv as one of the world’s top three cities to visit in 2011 — New York claimed the #1 spot,
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Travel and FoodKRAKOW, Poland (WJC) — The former Swedish neo-Nazi leader Anders Högström, who organized the theft of the ‘Arbeit macht frei’ sign from Auschwitz, has been transferred to his home country to serve his three-year prison sentence. Högström was handed over to Swedish officials at Krakow Airport, according to media reports. Last December, a Polish court sentenced
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Travel and FoodALEPPO, Syria (Press Release)–Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that “Israel must under no circumstance interfere” in what is happening in Egypt. He told the Turkish newspaper ‘Hürriyet’ that the US and Greece should intervene to stop Israel should it be “inclined to meddle in Egypt in a last-ditch effort to try and
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Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– Representatives Jim Moran of Virginia, John Conyers of Michigan, Raul Grijalva of Arizona, Michael Honda of California, Jim McDermott of Washington, and Keith Ellison of Minnesota sent a letter to Speaker John Boehner asking the House to take up an emergency resolution to voice support for the Egyptian people. “The House of Representatives has
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano met Monday with Turkish State Minister Hayati Yazici to discuss increasing collaboration between the United States and Turkey to combat terrorism and other transnational crime. During the meeting, Secretary Napolitano underscored the Obama administration’s commitment to working closely with Turkey to strengthen the security of the
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Travel and FoodBy Paul Greenberg LA JOLLA, Caifornia — In his ambitious, fact-filled, quick moving, visually appealing, but at times quite disturbing 2009 documentary, War Against the Weak (English, 90 minutes), director Justin Strawhand effectively traces the history of the devolution of the theory and practices of eugenics from the 1880’s to the end of World War
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By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Shimon Peres has held prominent positions in Israeli politics in general and (especially early in his career) in the defense establishment in particular since the inception of the state, even though the electorate has never liked him. Until the Knesset finally chose him to be Israel’s current president, he could
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Middle EastNext Year in Bombay, directed by Jonas Pariente and Mathias Manyin, Chai Chai Films. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Less than an hour in length, the gentle documentary Next Year in Bombay takes viewers on a visit to three Jewish communities in India. First is the Konkan coast, about 25 miles from Bombay (Mumbai),
By Norman Greene SAN DIEGO–Some people are born with photographic memories, others with painterly gifts. Artist Mayer Kirshenblatt is blessed with both skills. In the gentle, 31 minute film, Paint What You Remember, viewers are offered a retrospect on this 94 year old’s memories of his hometown in Opatow, Poland through his paintings and his
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Theatre, Film & BroadcastJERUSALEM (WJC) — Israeli police say they have arrested four men in the theft of Jewish religious items worth more than US$ 1 million from a synagogue in the Italian city of Milan. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said on Monday the four Israeli men in their twenties had been arrested over the weekend, after smuggling
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Middle EastBOCA RATON, Florida (WJC)–Holocaust survivors are set to picket a golf tournament in Florida sponsored by the German insurance company Allianz, which the protestors claim still owes an estimated US$ 2 billion in unpaid claims to survivors. They plan to block the Boca Raton course of the US$ 1.8 million Allianz Championship and to return
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USAHAVANA (WJC)–Prosecutors in Cuba are reportedly seeking a 20-year prison sentence for the Jewish American Alan Gross, a US government contractor that the State Department says was assisting Cuban Jews. Gross is accused of “Acts Against the Independence and Territorial Integrity of the State,” the ‘Reuters’ news agency says, citing Cuban state media. The espionage
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Travel and FoodANKARA (WJC)–Iran and Turkey have signed a trade pact which Tehran said could be worth up to US$ 30 billion over five years. “Iran and Turkey are two countries that complete each other,” Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted by Turkey’s Anadolu news agency as saying. Turkish State Minister Cevdet Yilmaz noted that
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