The sharp downward trend in Jewish emigration, which fell to its lowest point in a decade in 1981, continued into the new year as only 290 Jews arrived in Vienna in January, it was reported here by the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. The monthly average of Vienna arrivals over the past six months hovers […]
A total of 109 key members of the House of Representatives have sent an urgent letter to Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, protesting the “extraordinary acceleration” of the Kremlin’s campaign against the Jewish cultural movement in the Soviet Union as well as the 90 percent slash in the rate of Jewish emigration in recent months, according […]
Attorney General Yitzhak Zamir has ordered an immediate investigation of the Egged bus cooperative management’s strike against the government. The bus co-op, which has a virtual monopoly of service all over Israel, halted bus service in Jerusalem about 7 p.m. last night. It acted to force the government to hand over funds for buses purchased […]
The world watched in horror as the images were flashed all over the globe- In the chaos that surrounded the fall of Baghdad in April 2003, the Iraq Museum—home to a priceless collection of ancient objects from the birthplace of civilization—was being wildly looted. These initial news reports indicated that more than 170,000 priceless treasures […]
The United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies Campaign reported today that a tabulation of preliminary results of last weekend’s Super Sunday indicates that some 21,675 New Yorkers contributed $2,063,532 in pledges to the 1982 UJA-Federation Campaign. These contributions were the results of calls by an estimated 2,230 telephone volunteers working in shifts from 10 a.m. […]
A spokesman for the New York State Attorney General’s office reported today that Abraham Novitzky, 48, of Brooklyn, charged with impersonating a ritual slaughterer (shochet) and misbranding as kosher non-kosher meat, is free on $5,000 bail after being arrested in Hoboken, N. J. He faces trial in a Brooklyn, N.Y. criminal court February 25. If […]
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will make his official farewell remarks tomorrow only about an hour-and-a-half after he is welcomed to the White House by President Reagan. A senior Administration official briefing reporters on the Mubarak visit to Washington, which starts this afternoon, said the Egyptian leader would be officially welcomed to the White House by […]
A five-alarm fire gutted the Concordia-Argonaut Club, a Jewish men’s social club here early Sunday morning, causing more than $2 million in damages. No one was injured. According to the preliminary report filed by San Francisco Fire Department investigator George Alboff, the fire was started when an unattended hot plate ignited adjacent combustibles in the […]
City officials were reminded that “New York City today numbers among its citizens more survivors of the Holocaust than any other city in the world” but still lacks a proper memorial to the victims 40 years after those events. The need for a New York City Holocaust Memorial Center that would also serve archival and […]
Health Minister Eliezer Shostak has announced that he is giving the green light to the medical profession for the controlled use of the Israeli-developed anti-cancer drug, DMBG, denied to Reuven Maayan, a terminal cancer patient, because of legal complications. Maayan died Saturday, a day after the Supreme Court, to which he had appealed for permission […]