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Washington – Justice Dept. Declines to Intervene in Rubashkin Case
Washington - The U.S. Department of Justice declined to intervene in the case of a convicted kosher meat executive, despite a plea from several Orthodox rabbis.
In a letter last week to Rabbi Aron ...
Kingston – Preserving The Unique Heritage of Jamaica’s Jews
Kingston - Abraham Cohen Henriques, a Jewish merchant from Amsterdam, arrived in Jamaica in 1670 on a mission to find the hidden treasure of Christopher Columbus.
Acting on a tip handed down to him...
Fort Lee, NJ – Noted Holocaust Survivor Dies, Asked To Be Cremated Saying His People Had Gone That Way
Fort Lee, NJ - Leon Weliczker Wells, a Holocaust survivor who testified at both the Nuremberg and Eichmann trials, has died.
According to the JTA Wells died of cancer Dec. 19 at his home in Fort Le...
London – Terrorist Threat Level Raised to ‘Severe’
London - Britain's terrorist threat level was raised tonight from “substantial” to “severe” - meaning that counter-terrorism agencies believe an attack is “highly likely”.
The measure was approved ...
Sydney – Australian Ex-Israeli Soldier Muscles His Way to Guinness Mark
Sydney - An Australian who served in an elite unit of the Israel Defense Forces broke a Guinness World Record for strength.
Jarryd Rubinstein, 26, from Sydney, last week registered 25 muscle-ups – ...
Framingham, MA – Two Charged In $29M Ponzi Scheme, Many Investors Elderly Jews
Framingham, MA - Massachusetts regulators allege two Newton financial advisers and their company connected to a Framingham man's alleged Ponzi scheme have been operating as unregistered brokers.
As...
New York – Ed Koch: Carter’s ‘Al Chet’, How Would One Know You’re Really Sorry?
New York - Former President Jimmy Carter recently sent a letter to the JTA, which is a wire service for Jewish newspapers. The letter was made public by the JTA on December 21st, along with the follow...
Budapest, Hungary – Teens Charged in Beating of Jew
Budapest, Hungar - Police charged two men in the assault of a Jewish man in the old Ghetto district of the Hungarian capital.
A third man was also arrested Wednesday, as investigations into last su...
Montreal, Canada – Couple Honoured for 1944 Heroism
Montreal, Canada - Alexander Szegedy was a nervous young man when he arrived at the train station in Budapest on Dec. 4, 1944.
The 22-year-old had just escaped from a labour camp in Hungary and Naz...
Atlanta, GA – Carter: Grandson’s Race Not Reason Enough For ‘Al Chet’
Atlanta, GA - Jimmy Carter is asking the Jewish community for forgiveness -- and insists it’s not simply because his grandson has decided to launch a political career with a run for the Georgia state ...
Atlanta, GA – Carter Offers Jewish Community ‘Al Chet’
Atlanta, GA - Jimmy Carter asked the Jewish community for forgiveness for any stigma he may have caused Israel.
In a letter released exclusively to JTA, the former U.S. president sent a seasonal me...
Suffern, NY – The Future of EJF – Rav Wachtfogel: I Never Agreed To New Role
Suffern, NY - The Eternal Jewish Family is an organization whose dramatic rise to prominence on the Haredi Jewish scene is almost - but not quite - as fast as its fall from grace.
In its near meteo...
Washington – Fuss Over White House Chanukkah Party
Washington - At the first Hanukkah party in the Obama White House, a Jewish student choir will sing in sweet harmony, the two young children of a soldier deployed in Iraq will light a 19th-century sil...
Bern – Swiss Leader Calls for Jewish Cemetery Ban
Bern - A mainstream Swiss political leader is calling for a ban on separate Muslim and Jewish cemeteries.
Christophe Darbellay, president of the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland, ...
Antwerp, Belgium – For Antwerp Jews, Turns Out Diamonds Aren’t Forever
Antwerp, Belgium - Some years ago, Benjamin Lubelsky's son asked him for help fixing his bicycle, a preferred mode of transport here among Jews and gentiles.
Lubelsky, a Bobover Chasid, acquired th...
New Zealand – Auschwitz Survivor Nuremberg Witness Dies
New Zealand - Aucklander Fred Silberstein, who survived the Nazis' Auschwitz concentration camp to testify at the Nuremberg war crimes trials in 1946, has died at the age of 80.
Silberstein was jus...
Washington – Congress Extends Religious Worker Visa program
Washington - Congress has extended the Religious Worker Visa Program, which helps small Jewish communities, for three more years, According to the JTA.
The visa program makes available up to 5,000 ...
Iran – Official: We’ll Blow Up Heart of Israel if Attacked
Tehran, Iran - A top official with Iran's most powerful military force — the Revolutionary Guard — says Tehran will "blow up the heart of Israel" if the Jewish state or the United States attacked Iran...
Kremenchug, Ukraine – Vandalism, Death Threats Against Jewish Community
Kremenchug, Ukraine - Two vandals threw red paint on the walls and windows of a synagogue. In addition, anti-Semitic slogans were written on the walls of the synagogue in Kremenchug on Sunday night.
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New York – Rick Lazio To Announce NY Governor Run
New York - Rick Lazio has taken a leave from his job as an executive vice president at JP Morgan Chase in preparation for a formal announcement that he will run for governor in 2010, a campaign spokes...