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On February 5, 2013, former Canadian MP David Kilgour and international human rights lawyer David Matas testified on their almost seven-year investigation into illegal organ harvesting in China at the International Human Rights Subcommittee of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Canadian Parliament.The two investigators published reports concluding that the Chinese regime is killing its own citizens, most of them ...

‘Jewish Jacko’ Michoel Streicher sentenced to at least one year in prison for grand larceny

The self-described “Michael Jackson” of Orthodox Jewish music was sentenced Tuesday to a maximum of three years in prison for swiping $36,000 from a devoted fan. Michoel Streicher, whose celebrity in religious circles peaked in the early 1990s, was convicted by a Manhattan jury of grand larceny in April for stealing money from Judy Burstein of Washington Heights in 2005.Read ...

Jewish Groups on Hand for Swearing in New Congress

Community leaders, chaplains, activists and representatives from a number of Jewish organizations were on hand for the swearing in of the 113th Congress this past Thursday.Among the groups participating were Agudath Israel of America, American Friends of Chabad Lubavitch of Washington DC, Orthodox Union, Satmar UTA, and The Friedlander Group.Rabbi Yechiel Kalish, National Director of Government Affairs for AIA, remarked, ...

Jewish groups condemn effort to ban circumcision

San Francisco-area Jewish organizations condemned a proposed ballot measure to outlaw Jewish ritual circumcision in the city.The Anti-Defamation League, the local Jewish Community Relations Council, the Board of Rabbis of Northern California and the American Jewish Committee together issued a statement expressing “great concern” about the proposed measure, which would make the practice of brit milah, or ritual circumcision, on ...

Jewish groups: Chavez Foe a Target of Anti-Semitism

Prominent Jewish groups urged President Hugo Chavez to prevent what they called anti-Semitic attacks on the opposition’s presidential candidate by Venezuelan state media.The Simon Wiesenthal Center condemned a column that described the Jewish ancestry of opposition leader Henrique Capriles Radonski and labeled him a secret follower of Zionism, which it called “the most rotten sentiments represented by humanity.”The New York-based ...

‘Jewish group tells Fox to fire Glenn Beck’

A U.S. Jewish group has called on Fox News to fire its popular political commentator Glenn Beck, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported on Sunday.Jewish Funds for Justice called to fire the controversial pundit over a series of what they call ‘disturbing’ remarks, including an attack on left-wing Jewish billionaire George Soros.Late last year, Beck dubbed Soros a “puppet master” attempting ...

Jewish group slams Malaysian editorial

B’nai B’rith International has condemned an editorial that ran in the July 18 edition of the Utusan Malaysia daily, a government-backed publication, warning against a possible attempt by “foreign Jews” to use a domestic reform movement to interfere in government affairs.This attempt cites the July 9 march in Kuala Lumpur of some 20,000 people advocating for election reforms as an ...

Jewish group gives 9 countries ‘fail’ for not hunting Nazis

Syria, Austria and Lithuania are among nine countries where Nazi war criminals are not being brought to justice, a Jewish group said on Sunday. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish group which hunts Nazis and fights anti-Semitism, issued its annual report card examining efforts to track down perpetrators of crimes against Jews during World War II, flunking nine nations.Read More: @ ...

Jewish group complains to EU presidency about Hungary’s far-right

Hungary’s far-right party Jobbik was singled out for criticism at a meeting between a leading Jewish lobby group and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose country holds the European Union presidency, officials said Wednesday.European Jewish Congress (EJC) president Moshe Kantor raised his concerns with Orban in Brussels on Tuesday, on the occasion of Holocaust Memorial Day.“Parties like Jobbik stand in ...

Jewish group applauds German arrest of American Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke

An American Jewish group is applauding German police for taking former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke into custody before he could address a far-right gathering.Elan Steinberg, vice president of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants, said on Wednesday that the move “sends an important signal that firm action against those who advocate hate must remain central ...

Jewish Graves Vandalized in New Zealand

Over 20 graves in a Jewish cemetery were vandalized overnight Thursday, with swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans, in Auckland, New Zealand.According to a report in the New Zealand Herald, some of the graffiti found on the graves read “f*** Israel” and “don’t f*** with us.”In response to the acts of vandalism, the Israeli Embassy in Wellington released a statement that read, ...

Jewish Graves Desecrated in Iran

A video that was uploaded to YouTube on Friday shows the broken tombstones and desecrated graves. The Jewish cemeteries that were desecrated are located in the Damavand region of Iran. There are two Jewish cemeteries in the area, one in the village of Maranak and the other in the village of Giliard.As of last December, 25,000 Jews remained in Iran. ...