By Randy Fadem LA JOLLA, California–The film Bruriah, to be shown Feb. 14 and Feb. 21 at the San Diego Jewish Film Festival, portrays a modern rendering of the Parable of Temptation and Sin that legend assigns to Talmudic Sage Bruriah and her weak-minded husband, Rabbi Meir. The historic Bruriah was a daughter of one […]
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM, Jan. 26–We may be forgiven if, when we read reports about anti-Semitism around the world, we’re tempted to conclude that many Israelis regard it as good news for at least two reasons: a vindication for living in Israel and a promise of continued aliyah, which Israelis love (even when they
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Middle EastSAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The 20th Anniversary San Diego Jewish Film Festival, sponsored by the Mizel Family Foundation, and presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, will run February 10-21, 2010. Once again the festival will feature the Joyce Forum – A Day
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (Press Release)–The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), distinguished author Norman Podhoretz, columnist and foreign policy expert Dr. Michael Ledeen and respected columnist Mark Steyn have all criticized the National Director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Abraham Foxman, for wrongly attacking radio broadcaster and strong friend of Israel, Rush Limbaugh, for making remarks that
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release) … The arrest of five students from a West Bank yeshiva on charges of torching and vandalizing a mosque in a neighboring Palestinian village, “highlights the danger of the teachings of Yeshiva head Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira,” the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said in calling on responsible Orthodox Jewish leaders to “speak
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release)– The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) welcomed as “a positive first step” Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou’s letter to the Greek Jewish community, in which he conveyed his solidarity after the synagogue arson attack on the island of Crete, and stated that “anti-Semitism and racism are condemned and have no place in the
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Travel and FoodPARIS (WJC)–A group of Islamic extremists has burst into a mosque near Paris during a prayer service and threatened to kill the local Imam, Hassen Chalghoumi, because of his efforts to improve relations between Jews and Muslims. “We are going to liquidate him, this imam of the Jews,” some of the about 80 people who
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Travel and FoodBERLIN — Siemens AG of Germany, Europe’s biggest engineering conglomerate with operations world-wide, has announced that it would cut all future business deals with Iran, although the company intends to honor existing contracts. Germany is one of the biggest exporters to Iran. Siemens business deal in Iran have repeatedly come under fire. The company’s CEO
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Middle EastMoshe Kantor, president of the European Jewish Congress, published this Op-Ed column in the Jerusalem Post: By Moshe Kantor JERUSALEM (WJC)–In his seminal quote written at the beginning of the last century, philosopher George Santayana said in his treatise ‘The Life of Reason’ that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
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Middle EastNEW YORK (WJC)–The Jewish Claims Conference has said that about half of the estimated 517,000 survivors of the Shoah wh oare still alive live in poverty and are struggling to make ends meet. The organization – which was set up in the 1950s and negotiates with the German and other governments on behalf of Holocaust
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Travel and FoodAUSCHWITZ, Poland–Commemorations are underway around the world on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which coincides with the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp on 27 January 1945 by Soviet troops. The main commemorative event is to be held in Auschwitz, in the presence of survivors, international statesmen and Jewish leaders,
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Travel and FoodGlobal Holocaust commemorations across the globe Poverty grips half the Holocaust survivors alive today United States Former Malaysian PM says U.S. staged 9/11 attacks ZOA says ADL owes Rush Limbaugh an apology for asking for one Abdulmutallab belongs in military custody — Senators Lieberman and Collins ACLU accuses Lieberman, others of wanting to discard Constitution in terror cases Haiti relief Jewish
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Travel and FoodKUALA LUMPUR (WJC)–Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad has suggested that the September 2001 terrorist attacks were “staged” by insiders. “It sounds logical to me. Until today, you cannot even find scraps of the plane that crashed into the World Trade Centre, and there is no picture of the other plane, which was supposed
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Middle East, USAJERUSALEM (WJC)–The original blueprints for the construction of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau have gone on display at Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem. The collection of 29 plans, four of which are now on display, was given to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a visit to Germany in August 2009. “There is an
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