Jewish News Roundup
Gingrich With Jewish Leaders in NY
GestetnerUpdates.com reports that while front runner Gingrich was busy Monday the 5th with Donald Trump, he actually made time in the afternoon to sit with a broad sector of Jewish leaders and Israeli activists at the Hyatt on 42’nd St. for approximately one hour. Read More.
Reform rabbi sworn in to Buenos Aires
Rabbi Sergio Bergman made history on Tuesday when he was sworn in to the 60-member Buenos Aires
He became the first Jewish religious leader to assume public office in the Catholic-majority country. Read More.
Austrian gallery ordered to return Nazi-stolen works
Hitler's account book, desk set on the block in U.S.
Adolf Hitler's private account book, the desk set with which he signed the Munich Agreement, letters Joseph Goebbels received from his Jewish girlfriend, and documents linked to a senior Nazi later recruited by the Mossad are among the items to be auctioned off this week in the United States
The auction house is Stamford, Connecticut-based Alexander Autographs, which specializes in items and documents from World War II. On Thursday and Friday the company will be auctioning off more than 1,000 items, a number of which belonged to senior Nazi officials. Read More.
Anti-Semitic Fliers Found in Parts of Northwest DC
Police in the District are looking into a number of anti-Semitic fliers seen in Cleveland Park Dupont Circle
The fliers make derogatory statements about Jewish people, claiming they control the world. One of the messages even goes so far to say that Jewish people altered the rotation of Earth on its axis. Read More.
Embargo Hampers Gross Freedom Talks
To understand the reason that Alan Gross, an American citizen, has been languishing in a Cuban jail for the past two years, it is instructive to listen to an exchange that took place recently at a hearing of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Rep. David Rivera (R-Fla.) demanded that Wendy Sherman, undersecretary of state for political affairs, reveal whether the United States has in any way tried to work with Havana to secure Gross’s release. He hoped we hadn’t.
Rivera told her, “It is outrageous that we would be negotiating with a terrorist regime to release an American hostage.”
In principle, this policy is right: Nations should not give in to the demands of terrorists. But none of this has anything to do with Gross or with Cuba
Yad Vashem says most of the money will go to its International School
Young Jewish Girls Marrying Arabs in Galilee
A growing number of young Jewish girls are marrying Arabs, according to Dr. Boris Yudis, deputy mayor of the northern town of Afula
"The phenomenon of girls aged 12 and 13 who are in Arab villages breaks my heart, but unfortunately my hands are tied," he was quoted as saying. "Mothers come to me and cry that their 12 and 13 year olds have moved into minority villages, this is a painful thing that wounds my heart."
He was further quoted as saying: "I am really frustrated and this is not about Jews and Arabs - it is about the fact that instead of learning and studying they waste their lives. It is a sad phenomenon that we are unable to treat in a thorough way, from the root. I no longer believe only in law enforcement; I think we will have results if we act through education."
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