ADL says Papandreou's letter to Jewish community a 'positive step'

NEW 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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Extremists threaten life of imam in France who wants improved Jewish-Muslim relations

PARIS (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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Siemens to cut future business deals with Iran

BERLIN — 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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Kantor: Iran denies Holocaust because it doesn't want world to recognize its lessons

Moshe 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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Holocaust commemorations across the globe

AUSCHWITZ, 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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January 28, 2010 Headlines

Global 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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European Union members consider possible sanctions against Iran

BRUSSELS (WJC)–European Union foreign ministers have discussed possible responses to Iran’s continued nuclear program including new sanctions against Tehran. “We are moving very strongly toward sanctions,” Finland’s Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb told reporters in Brussels. “We will start with UN sanctions, and if that does not work, we will go to EU sanctions.” France’s minister

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Movement to equate communist rule with Holocaust seen as an attempt to marginalize latter

JERUSALEM–Holocaust scholars have criticized a growing tendency in central and eastern Europe to equate the Shoah with Communist oppression, a trend which they consider “the gravest threat to preserving the memory of the Holocaust” as it served to exculpate populations complicit in the extermination of their Jewish minorities, according to a report by the Israeli

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Retired bishop call Jews 'arrogant' and Shoah use a 'propaganda weapon'

WARSAW (WJC)–In an interview published on an Italian Catholic website, the retired Polish Bishop Tadeusz Pieronek has accused Jews of exploiting the Holocaust for propaganda purposes. “While it is undeniable that most of those who died in the concentration camps were Jews, there were also Gypsies, Poles, Italians and Catholics on the list,” Tadeusz Pieronek

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Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, March 19, 1954, Part III

Compiled by Gail Umeham B.J. Sisterhood Holds Purim Party Mar. 23 Southwestern Jewish Press March 19, 1954 Page 4 The Beth Jacob Sisterhood will hold its luncheon-meeting Tuesday, March 23, at noon, at the Beth Jacob Center.  All members and guests are invited to attend a social afternoon with Purim favors, planned by Mrs. Jack

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San Diego Opera announces scholarly lecture series on the historic ‘Nabucco’

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Nabucco is based on the exile to Babylon of the Jews from Jerusalem.  In the Bible, the Babylonian King Nabucco is known as Nebuchadnezzar.  San Diego Opera will be presenting “Nabucco” Feb. 20, 23, 26, 28 at the San Diego Civic Theatre. Prior to that time, Dr. Nicolas

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