NEW YORK (Press Release)–A school district rule barring religious holiday music at holiday assemblies celebrating the same holiday is constitutionally sound, and does not reflect impermissible hostility to religion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held on Tuesday. The opinion quoted approvingly at length from the amicus brief filed by AJCongress asserting […]
AT DEDICATION– New York Governor David A. Paterson, New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, 64th Assembly District and Ivan Kaufman, Chairman of the Board, North Shore Hebrew Academy High School, participated in dedication of Torahs, Photo: Elliot Moscowitz, Elliot’s Images ______________________________________________________________ GREAT NECK, New York (Press Release) –The North Shore Hebrew Academy Schools, in
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Travel and FoodLONDON (WJC)–The British airline EasyJet has apologized after fashion photos shot at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin were published in its in-flight magazine. In the pictures, models were photographed among concrete blocks in the Field of Stelae. The airline said that it apologized to anyone who had been offended by the shoot and said that
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Travel and FoodBRESCIA, Italy (WJC)–Two Pakistanis suspected of helping facilitate the November 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai have been arrested in Italy. The men, a father and son, were arrested Saturday in the northern Italian city of Brescia. Ten terrorists believed to have come from Pakistan carried out the attacks in the India city. Over 170 people
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Travel and FoodBUDAPEST (WJC)– A member of the extreme-right Hungarian party Jobbik has promised the extermination of “vermin” in a forthcoming “cleansing” of the Hungarian nation. The man made the remark during a mass rally organized by the party commemorating the rule of Miklós Horthy, the Hungarian leader who authorized the deportation of half a million Hungarian
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)—Statistics released Monday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed that 7,783 criminal incidents involving 9,168 offenses were reported in 2008 as a result of bias toward a particular race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity/national origin, or disability. Published by the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Hate Crime Statistics, 2008, includes data about
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USANASHVILLE, Tennessee (Press Release)– Senior Judge Robert L. Echols of the Middle District of Tennessee on Monday sentenced Michael Corey Golden to 14 years and three months in prison and three years of supervised released for vandalizing and burning down the Islamic Center of Columbia, Tenn., the Justice Department announced. Golden pleaded guilty on Nov.
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Travel and FoodPHILADELPHIA (Press Release)—Arrests were made Monday in a case involving a conspiracy to procure weapons, including anti-aircraft missiles. A criminal complaint, unsealed Monday, charged Dani Nemr Tarraf with conspiring to acquire anti-aircraft missiles (FIM-92 Stingers) and conspiring to possess machine guns (approximately 10,000 Colt M4 Carbines). In addition, Tarraf and other defendants — including Douri
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USAMOBILE, Alabama (Press Release)–Jacques Monsieur, a Belgian national and resident of France suspected of international arms dealing for decades, pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama to conspiracy to illegally export F-5 fighter jet engines and parts from the Untied States to Iran. Monsieur along with Dara Fotouhi, aka
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress Nov. 20 of a possible Foreign Military Sale to Kuwait for the design and construction of facilities and infrastructure for Al Mubarak Air Base and the Kuwait Air Force Headquarters Complex for an estimated cost of $700 million. The Government of Kuwait has
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COMMERCIAL BREAK—Zeji Ozeri, left, pauses with microphone in hand during filming of a commercial of I-Chamba, owned by Vic and Lea Sefler, seated at right. Telemundo videographer is Nancy Castro ________________________________________________________ By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Zeji Ozeri is a man of three cultures—Mexican, Israeli, and now American—and as a singer, song leader,
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USASAN DIEGO- Assemblymember Marty Block (Democrat, San Diego) announced on Monday that he has been appointed to the Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education. “My appointment allows for San Diego, and Chula Vista in particular, to have a critical voice in how the Master Plan for Higher Education can be improved and
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San Diego CalendarWASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release)—Senator Barbara Boxer (Democrat-San Diego) is alerting California constituents that the U.S. Senate recently passed the Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Bill, “which includes several of my priority projects for California.” Boxer, a member of the Jewish community, stated that “as part of the bill, I requested funding for the San Diego DA
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San Diego Calendar, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Jill Borg Spitzer, chief executive officer of Jewish Family Service, reports that the agency is falling short of its goal of raising sufficient money to distribute 760 special Thanksgiving baskets to the needy. “With times as tough as they are, missing our goal would be devastating for too many people,” she wrote
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