Moran legislation would aid cyber-space communications of Iranian opposition

WASHINGTON, DC  (Press Release)– Rep. Jim Moran (Democrat,Virginia) on MOnday introduced bipartisan legislation that would clarify current sanctions law to provide the Iranian people access to information and the ability to communicate both internally and with the outside world in an effort to undermine censorship and monitoring efforts by the Iranian government.  When it authored […]

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Terrors conspirators sentenced to federal prison

ATLANTA, Georgia (Press Release)– Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, 23, of Roswell, Ga., and Syed Haris Ahmed, 25, of Atlanta, were sentenced Monday in federal court following their convictions earlier this year in separate but related criminal trials, the Justice Department announced. “With their words and their actions, these defendants supported the wrongheaded but very dangerous idea

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Obama, Lebanon's Sleiman tell disagreements over Israel

WASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release)–Following is the text of a joint news conference held by U.S. President Barack Obama and Lebanon’s Michel President Sleiman on Monday. PRESIDENT OBAMA:  Thank you very much, everybody.  I want to welcome President Sleiman and his delegation for the excellent visit that we’ve had.  I thought that this meeting was critical

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Middle East, USA

'Palestine, New Mexico' offers message of cultural unity

By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES— Ever since the government permitted Native Americans to establish—and keep the proceeds from—their own gambling casinos, there has been a stampede among people of many different ethnic backgrounds to claim their “Indian heritage.”  This “rush to authenticity”—no matter how remote—is a running gag in Richard Montoya’s new play Palestine, New Mexico,

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Cynthia Citron

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History~February 6, 1954, Part I

Compiled by Gail Umeham ** United Jewish Fund Head Outlines Plans for 1954 Campaign Southwestern Jewish Press February 6, 1954 Page 1 Louis Moorsteen, newly elected president of the United Jewish Fund, announced that the 1954 campaign is scheduled to open on Monday, March 29.  Selection of campaign leadership will take place during the early

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Conference of Presidents, Israel tourism co-sponsor Chanukah promotion for trip to Israel

NEW YORK — The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations has launched a unique website with Israel’s Ministry of Tourism dedicated to Chanukah. The site, http://chanukah.goisrael.com, allows virtual “travelers” to log on and light candles for each night of the holiday. With each candle “lit,” visitors to the Chanukah website will be able

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Middle East, USA

Iranian nuclear secrets coming out with increasing velocity

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Each revelation of a “secret” Iranian nuclear-related capability hides another secret. Western threats, and threats of threats, and threats of even bigger threats have had no impact. After the September revelation of Iran’s “secret” uranium enrichment facilities, JINSA suggested that the Western powers stop threatening and start supporting the Second

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Shoshana Bryen

Foot-stomping, nostalgic time at Friends of IDF concert in San Diego

JOINS IN—Eitan Frysh, a senior at San Diego Jewish Academy, joins with singers of the Israel Defense Forces at Friends of the IDF campus appearance. _____________________________________________ By Yiftach Levy SAN DIEGO, California–What can you say when a concert experience runs the gamut from deeply moving to bizarrely surrealistic to profoundly annoying to just plain fun?

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Middle East, USA

Is our Jewish consciousness a genetic inheritance?

CORONADO, California (Press Release)–What makes a person Jewish? Why do some people feel that have physically inherited the memories of their ancestors? Is there any way to think about race without reducing it to racism or to physical differences? Writing on the eve of the Holocaust, Freud proposed that Jewishness is constituted by the inheritance

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