SAN FRANCISCO (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has announced a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the individual or individuals responsible for defacing a billboard image of Omri Casspi, the Israeli-born Sacramento Kings forward, with a swastika. The swastika, painted on the forehead of Casspi’s likeness, was reported on September

TEL AVIV (Press Release)― Antibiotics can work miracles, knocking out common infections like bronchitis and tonsillitis. But according to the Center for Disease Control, each year 90,000 people in the U.S. die of drug-resistant “superbugs” ― bacteria like Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a deadly form of staph infection resistant to normal antibiotics. Although hospital patients are

NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League on Tuesday called on the government of Kyrgyzstan to bring to justice those responsible for attacking a synagogue in the capital city of Bishkek with a nail-filled pipe bomb on the eve of the Jewish New Year. In a letter to Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbayeva, Abraham H. Foxman, ADL

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — Somebody wrote me a nasty letter recently after something I circulated in this publication.  “You wrote that because you’re a Jew,” spouted my critic.  To this branding, I say, thank you!  Thank you!  Thank you for attributing to me the greatest possible ethnic compliment.  Call me a Jew, and