ROME (WJC)–Jewish leaders in Italy have criticized a TV series that portrayed wartime Pope Pius XII as working forcefully to save Jews from the Nazi onslaught as “unacceptable revisionism.” The feature ‘Under the Roman Sky’ was aired Sunday and Monday on the state-owned ‘RAI Television’. Set in 1943, it shows Pius remaining in Rome despite

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (WJC)– A Muslim-owned company in Johannesburg has canceled an order placed by the South African Zionist Federation with comments saying: “Please don’t pay! Don’t contaminate our account with your blood money!” JTA reports that the organization had ordered conference bags from Saleys Travel Goods for a conference in March and had dealt with

TEHRAN (WJC)–Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for allegedly having committed adultery, escaped her execution on Wednesday after strong international protests, but still faces the death penalty. Ashtiani, whose case has captivated the world, might be hanged instead of stoned to death, human rights advocates said. The 43-year-old mother, was

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) –The Media Art Center’s San Diego Latino Film Festival plans to offer  the best of Jewish Latino films to San Diego County from November 2010 to February 2011. The Jewish Latino Film Series is a four- month celebration of films by Jewish Latino filmmakers or by filmmakers of other heritages about the

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Chronos Theatre Group performs on Nov. 12-14, 19-20 Tales of Chelm, a series of comic and heart-warming scenes of life in a Jewish village in Poland a century ago.  Tales of Chelm is conceived and directed by Eric George Tauber, adapted in part from stories by Sholem Aleichem and also including accounts