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Washington – New Jewish AG, A Man Of Personal Interest Against Terrorism.
Washington - In the aftermath of her son Ari's murder by an Arab gunman on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1994, Devorah Halberstam was introduced to a federal judge in New York with a longstanding interest i...
Washington, DC – Senate Extended Immigration Law for Victims of Religious Persecution
Washington, DC - The U.S. Senate extended the Lautenberg Law that has enabled Jewish immigration from the former Soviet Union.Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) noted the passage of an extension of the am...
Germany – Deal Adds $US250 Million In Nazi Reparations
Germany - The Conference for Jewish Material Claims Against Germany has secured an additional $US250 million in restitution payments for Holocaust survivors.
The agreement, which will benefit up to 6...
New York – Lithuanian Group Gets Holocaust-Era Accounts
New York - Citigroup has transferred two dormant Lithuanian Holocaust-era bank accounts to a Lithuanian Jewish group.
The accounts were sent to the Foundation for the Lithuanian Jewish Heritage, the N...
Managua Nicaragua – Nicaragua Jews Have a New Torah.
Managua Nicaragua - Nicaraguan Jews have a Torah for the first time in nearly 30 years.
A new Torah scroll was sent to the country in August, replacing the one that left the country for Costa Rica af...
Boston, MA – Presidential Candidate Mit Romney Cites Hezbollah As A Model.
Boston, MA - Mitt Romney cited Hezbollah's social network as a model for U.S. diplomacy.
The former Massachusetts governor, a front-runner in the race for the Republican presidential candidacy, was...
Washington, DC – Five Jews Named to Memorial Posts
Washington, DC - President Bush appointed five American Jews to positions on Holocaust preservation and remembrance commissions.
Bush named Marc Goldman, a New Jersey dairy magnate and a board memb...
Toronto, Canada – Vandals Undeterred by Cleanups Continue Their Offensive Graffiti
Toronto, Canada - Vandals continue to spray-paint anti-Semitic slogans and other offensive graffiti in a Toronto neighborhood despite cleanup efforts by volunteers.The vandals have left threatening no...
New York, NY – Obama Meets Off the Record with NY Jewish Leaders
New York, NY - Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) met with top Jewish lay leaders in New York as part of an outreach to Jews across the country."He's reached out to Jewish leaders in major cities li...
Adelaide, Australia – London Dayan Won’t Hear Case Between Synagogue and Its Former Rabbi
Adelaide, Australia - The former chief judge of the London Beth Din will not travel to Australia to arbitrate in a bitter dispute between Adelaide's only Orthodox synagogue and its former rabbi.
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Ukraine, Kharkov – Ghetto Victims Get Jewish Reburial.
Ukraine, Kharkov - The remains of 150 victims of the Kharkov ghetto were given a traditional Jewish burial.
The remains were discovered last year in this western Ukrainian city when construction of a...
Postville, IA – Rubashkin’s Meat Gets A Bad Rap Sheet.
Postville, IA - Agriprocessors, the country’s largest kosher slaughterhouse, was slammed in a union's report for committing scores of violations.
Among the most serious charges noted in a report by...
Argentina – Anti-Semitism Jumped by More Than 50 Percent
Argentina - According to a new report, Anti-Semitic incidents in Argentina jumped by more than 50 percent.
The report, unveiled today in New York, cited 586 anti-Semitic incidents in Argentina, more t...
Ukraine- Ukrainian Jews Are Calling On the United States to Pardon Jonathan Pollard.
Ukraine - A group of Ukrainian Jewish activists meeting Monday in Kiev with William Taylor, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, presented a petition signed by more than 10,000 people seeking the commutati...
New Jersey – President Bush Tussles with NJ Senators Over Court Nominee
New Jersey - The Bush administration is in a dispute with New Jersey's U.S. senators over a judicial nomination.Shalom Stone, a lawyer who graduated from Yeshiva University, is the Bush administr...
Washington, DC – New Congressional Anti-Semitism Task Force Announced
Washington, DC - The Congressional Human Rights Caucus announced a task force that would deal with anti-Semitism."The Congressional Anti-Semitism Task Force will provide insights into the depth a...
Angarsk, Russia – Police Officer Threatens Jewish Journalist
Angarsk, Russia - A Jewish journalist was threatened with a gun by a Russian policeman in an anti-Semitic incident.A police officer in the city of Angarsk, in the Irkutsk region, pointed a gun at Anna...
Voronezh, Russia – Anti-Semitic Vandals Sentenced to Prison
Voronezh, Russia - Two young men were sentenced by a court for vandalizing a Jewish cemetery twice over the last 18 months.
Roman Aristov was given a two-year suspended sentence while Andrey Bobkov...
Sao Paulo, Brasil – Only Jew on This Month’s Plane Crash, Mourned
Sao Paulo, Brasil - Brazilian Jews are mourning a Jewish victim of this month's deadly plane crash in the country.
Rebeca Haddad, 14, apparently was the only Jew among the more than 200 people...
Washington, DC – Senate Approves Increased Funding for Synagogues
Washington, DC - The Senate approved an increase in federal funding to help protect high-risk non-profit institutions from terrorism.
The 2008 Senate spending bill, approved Friday, includes a $20 ...