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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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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Middle EastBRUSSELS (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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Middle EastJERUSALEM–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
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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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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Adventures in SD History, Travel and FoodSAN 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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Middle EastLA JOLLA, California (Press Release)–David Amos and Erica Miner, on-air personalities for classical radio station XLNC1, will present a series of lectures at the Athenaeum in April on “crossover composers.” These two experts will examine the different genres in which Beethoven, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky worked. Amos also is a music critic for San Diego Jewish
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– Dr. Abubakr al-Qirbi, the Foreign Minister of Yemen, briefed Congressman Steve Rothman (Democrat-New Jersey), a member of the House Appropriations Subcommittees on Defense and State and Foreign Operations, on the situation and counterterrorism efforts in Yemen. Yemen is one of the poorest countries in the world and has one of its
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