Jewish & World News

Marines' Nazi-Flag Whistleblower Comes Forward, Explains Why he Exposed Marines' Use of SS Flag

2012-02-14T12:06:00.000-05:00

When Marine investigators learned last November that a scout sniper platoon in Afghanistan was using a Nazi SS flag as its standard, it wasn't a member of the unit who told them. It was Iraq war veteran Waitman Beorn, a visiting history professor at Loyola University New Orleans, also a Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowship recipient who teaches at the National Holocaust Memorial Museum in

Jewish athlete marks 100th birthday at JCC Rockland

2012-02-14T11:54:00.000-05:00

Samuel Lehrfeld drops in twice a week for a workout at the gym at JCC Rockland in West Nyack, a holdover from the days when he was in top physical condition while playing competitive soccer. It’s not all that unusual, except that Lehrfeld’s prime playing days came in the early 1930s, when he twice tried out for the Polish national team to compete in the first and second Maccabi Games for Jewish

Mormon Baptism Of Wiesenthal Kin Sparks Jewish Outrage

2012-02-14T11:49:00.000-05:00

Two decades of anger, apologies and agreements have failed to keep the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from ending posthumous Mormon baptisms of prominent Jews and holocaust victims. In the latest incident, the parents of the late Simon Wiesenthal, a survivor of a Nazi death camp and an advocate for holocaust victims, were baptized in a Mormon ceremony. "We are outraged that such

Convicted firebomber of a Jewish school poses serious problem for Correctional Service Canada

2012-02-14T11:42:00.001-05:00

Montreal - A man serving a 7-year prison term for hate crimes, including the firebombing of a Jewish school for children, will remain behind bars for his entire sentence as he continues to pose a serious problem for Correctional Service Canada. Omar Bulphred, 26, has only four months remaining on the sentence he received in 2009 after he pleaded guilty to uttering threats, setting a fire at the

Israeli judge: Fugitive can't be deported unless U.S. prison provides kosher food

2012-02-14T11:39:00.000-05:00

An American hit-and-run driver who was finally found in Israel last year, after fleeing Florida over a decade ago, may not be extraditable because Florida does not allow its prisoners to receive kosher food. Jerusalem District Court Judge Ben-Tzion Greenberger on Sunday ruled that Lawrence Seth Wayne, who had been sentenced by a Florida court to 19 years in prison for the 1998 road accident,

Terror expert: NYC is likely target

2012-02-14T11:37:00.000-05:00

Bomb attacks on Israeli embassy staff in India and Georgia raise concerns about New York City being similarly targeted, a city police expert warned. Writing in the Tuesday edition of The Wall Street Journal, Mitchell Silber, director of intelligence analysis for the New York Police Department, said New York could become an attractive target because of its large Jewish population. The attacks on

Jewish community wants to double number of synagogues in Moscow

2012-02-14T11:35:00.000-05:00

The Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia would like built no less than five synagogues in Moscow, Federation President Alexander Boroda told a Monday press conference, during a break of the Federation congress. "The question will be asked at today's meeting of Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar and Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin," he said. There are five synagogues in Moscow - in Maryina

Amid terror threat, police raise level of alert

2012-02-14T11:33:00.000-05:00

Israel - Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich ordered police to raise alert levels across the country on Tuesday following a series of terror attacks abroad. The police's Operations head, Cmdr. Nissim Mor sent out instructions to all seven police districts on the new level of alert, spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. Areas of increased security include places that have large crowds,

Report: Mossad bolsters activity in Tunisia

2012-02-14T11:31:00.002-05:00

The Mossad has bolstered its activity in several Tunisian cities since the start of the revolt that ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali last January, a Tunisian magazine reported. According to the Al-Musawar, the Israeli intelligence agency has been working with its US-based counterpart, the CIA, to revive its spy network in post-revolution Tunisia. The journal cited a report compiled by

Czech Police clampdown on neo-Nazi women’s group

2012-02-13T22:51:00.000-05:00

Czech police say they have started criminal proceedings against 15 women believed to be been part of a women’s neo-Nazi organization. The special police squad for dealing with organized crime (ÚOOZ) said that the women, aged between 21 and 32, participated in and helped to propagate the ideas of the neo-Nazi Resistance Women Unity (RWU) movement, the non-registered women’s offshoot of the Nazi

Foundation will aid UK Holocaust survivors

2012-02-13T22:47:00.000-05:00

A new grant-giving foundation will provide one-time grants to help improve the quality of life for Holocaust survivors living in the United Kingdom. The Six Point Foundation said it has $6.3 million to assist victims of Nazi persecution or refugees, fugitives or emigrants from Nazi Germany or Nazi-occupied territories. Grants could be for purposes including medical costs, travel costs, special

Israel embassy attack: Device used worries police

2012-02-13T22:41:00.000-05:00

Investigation into the the explosion outside the Israeli embassy in Delhi's high-security area that left four people including a diplomat's wife injured, is on. Sources have told CNN-IBN that an incendiary explosive device was used in the attack. That is a device that can itself start a fire. Police said that such a sticking bomb has never been used in any terror attack in the country in the

Anti Semitic Hungarian far-right politician Dies at 77

2012-02-13T22:28:00.001-05:00

Istvan Csurka, a leading Hungarian playwright and politician whose hypernationalistic, anti-Semitic views antagonized Communists when they ruled the country and all manner of people afterward, died on Feb. 4 in Budapest. He was 77. Mr. Csurka led the Hungarian Justice and Life Party, the first far-right party to enter Parliament since World War II. His views paralleled those of his friend

Jewish Students at Northwood Support Principal Despite Kippah Controversy

2012-02-13T22:23:00.000-05:00

When school administration told Caleb Tanenbaum's parents that their son needed a letter from a rabbi in order to wear an unconventional kippah to Northwood High School, his father said he felt "singled out in a discriminatory manner." But other Jewish students at Northwood High School have defended the administration's treatment of the school's Jewish population. While eating kosher pizza

Museum might be ordered to return Nazi-seized art

2012-02-13T22:14:00.000-05:00

The German Historical Museum may be legally compelled to return 4,259 posters to Peter Sachs, the son of the German Jewish art collector Hans Sachs, whose collection was unlawfully seized by the Nazis on orders from Joseph Goebbels, the head of Hitler’s propaganda ministry. Matthias Druba, the attorney for Peter Sachs, told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday that he sees “a positive tendency” in the

Neo-Nazis march as Dresden remembers WWII bombing

2012-02-13T22:11:00.000-05:00

Around 1,600 neo-Nazis participated in a torch-lit march in the eastern German city of Dresden on Monday, on the anniversary of the city's World War II bombardment by Allied forces. But their march was cut short by more than 13,000 people who surrounded the city centre and formed a 3.6-kilometre human chain to prevent them from reaching the city core. On February 13 and 14, 1945, months before

Demjanjuk trial lawyer: Germany lacks funds to go after Nazi criminals

2012-02-13T22:09:00.000-05:00

"A small fish" is one expression whose literal meaning is identical in German and Hebrew. As in the holy tongue, when someone uses the term in German, the reference is to something of little value. The expression refers to someone low on the totem pole - to a person like John Demjanjuk, the Ukrainian guard at the Sobibor concentration camp who was convicted last May of abetting the murder of

Dimmers that work with any lightbulb

2012-02-13T22:00:00.000-05:00

Up to now, if you wanted to dim CFL or LED bulbs, you would have to buy the right dimmer for that type of bulb—or live with flickering and other issues. Leviton’s Universal Dimmer, on display at the International Builders’ Show, is the first that’s claimed to work with practically any dimmable compact fluorescent, LED, or incandescent bulb and even with halogen-fluorescent hybrid bulbs. Consumer

Haniyeh calls Israel ‘cancer that’s threatening to spread’

2012-02-13T21:56:00.000-05:00

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh continued Monday to issue fiery statements about Israel, which he compared to a cancer that is threatening to spread to other parts of the body. Rounding up a three-day visit to Iran, Haniyeh said in an interview with an Iranian TV station that Israel remained the “main enemy” of the Arab and Islamic world. Reiterating Hamas’s refusal to recognize Israel or

Sources: Israel not expected to respond harshly to India, Georgia attacks

2012-02-13T21:54:00.001-05:00

Israel is not expected to respond harshly to on Monday's twin attacks on Israeli representatives in India and Georgia, Israeli sources said Monday night. In one attack, the wife of Israel's defense attache in India was moderately wounded in a car bombing outside the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi. In the other, a bomb attached to a car belonging to the Israeli embassy in the Georgian capital

Heroism in Face of Terror: Israeli Envoy's Wife Spotted Terrorist and Managed to Get Out of Her Car

2012-02-13T21:50:00.002-05:00

Heroism in face of terror: An Israeli diplomat's wife wounded in Monday's blast in New Delhi apparently spotted the terrorist moments before the attack, managed to get out of her car, and evacuated herself to hospital despite her injury. Tal Yehoshua Koren, the wife of an Israeli Defense Ministry representative to India, was taken to hospital by rickshaw where she is in mild to moderate

Poland's Jews slam decision to place restitution claims in hands of courts

2012-02-13T12:50:00.000-05:00

The Polish government's decision to make the courts responsible for determining the restitution of communal Jewish property has sparked harsh criticism from Poland's Jewish community. The change, Jewish community leaders say, will slow down and complicate the process of adjudicating the estimated 3,000 outstanding claims. Piotr Kadlcik, president of the Union of Jewish Religious Communities in

CNN Fires 4 Jewish Journalists in Jerusalem

2012-02-13T12:48:00.000-05:00

CNN has reportedly fired most of the Jews in its Jerusalem bureau, cutting half the bureau but leaving Arab workers and reviving charges of CNN's pro-Arab slant. CNN denies the charges, claiming a budgetary downsizing, but two producers in the CNN Jerusalem office confirmed that four of the eight-person bureau, all Jews, were told they were being fired, leaving only one Jewish producer. We

Sydney - Rabbinic Council To Establish Jewish Registry

2012-02-13T12:44:00.000-05:00

Chabad Shliach and member of the Sydney Beth Din, Rabbi Yoram Ulman was elected the president of the Rabbinic Council of NSW (RCNSW) last week, and he has some big plans for the organisation. The new president told his colleagues that he wants to establish a central marriage, circumcision and baby-naming registry to enable rabbis to easily determine who is Jewish. The registry, which will be

How Polish Catholics rescued Jews in Holocaust

2012-02-13T12:42:00.000-05:00

Nowhere else is Holocaust history as distorted and as misrepresented as it is about Poland, according to Auschwitz survivor Michael Preisler, co chair of the Holocaust Documentation Committee of the Polish American Congress. Holding up the most recent book he published, “The Polish Jerusalem – A History of Endurance,” the Brooklyn oncologist described how both of his parents and both of his