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January 11, 2011

Iran downgrades tomb of Esther and Mordechai

Jewish Journal January 11, 2011

Iranian authorities have downgraded the status of the tomb of Esther and Mordechai, while an official state news agency has publicized the Purim story as a Jewish massacre of Iranians. Officials recently removed the sign that identified the mausoleum of the biblical figures in the central Iranian city of Hamadan as an official pilgrimage site. The removal of the sign signifies that its status has been downgraded, according to reports. The actions come about two weeks after a group of about 250 militant students surrounded the tomb and threatened to tear it down. Their threats were in response to alleged Israeli excavations under the Al-Aksa Mosque in Jerusalem.

Giffords’ account of her trip to Israel

Jewish Journal January 11, 2011

In 2002, shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Gabrielle Giffords, then a member of the Arizona House of Representatives, visited Israel on a trip organized by AJC\’s Project Interchange. She wrote this insightful, moving account, which AJC is honored to republish nine years later, upon her return to the United States. It is a land of contradiction, of complexity and simplicity. Its mountains and deserts were the backdrop for the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the Koran. Now journalists stand before this same landscape and transmit battle reports to viewers of BBC, CNN and Al Jazeera. It is a land where Orthodox Jews wearing clothing that was fashionable 300 years ago pose for digital pictures taken by tourists wearing the most modern fashions. And it is a place that offers the most ancient historical accounts, along with the most modern of lessons.

Obama calls Giffords’ rabbi

Jewish Journal January 11, 2011

President Obama spoke with the rabbi of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords during a series of calls to friends and families of victims of the weekend shooting in Tucson. A White House official said Rabbi Stephanie Aaron of Tucson\’s Congregation Chaverim was among the Tucson-area officials, victims and families Obama reached Monday in the wake of the Jan. 8 attack that left Giffords, an Arizona Democrat, critically injured and six dead.\n

Germany knew Eichmann’s whereabouts, documents show

Jewish Journal January 11, 2011

The notorious Nazi Adolf Eichmann could have been caught sooner if Germany\’s intelligence agency had assisted, new information has revealed. The German Information Agency knew as early as 1952 that Eichmann, a chief organizer of the Nazi genocide against the Jews, was hiding in Argentina under a false name, the German tabloid Bild reported. The information was revealed after the newspaper sued the agency to force the release of all remaining documents on Eichmann, who was captured by Israeli agents in 1960. After a trial in Israel, he was executed in 1962 — the only person ever executed by the Jewish state. \”The revelations are very troubling because they clearly show the Germans never had any interest in bringing people like that to justice,\” Efraim Zuroff, head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center\’s Israel office, told JTA Monday. \”Today they are making the effort, but with criminals who played a far lesser role than Eichmann.\”

Netanyahu posts pay slip on Facebook

Jewish Journal January 11, 2011

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes about $12,300 a month before taxes, he informed the public on Facebook. Netanyahu posted a copy of his monthly pay slip Monday on the Prime Minister of Israel\’s page on the social networking site. The prime minister earns a gross salary of about $12,300 a month, but takes home just $4,200 after taxes and other deductions.

References to pork, Jesus lead to retrial

Jewish Journal January 11, 2011

References to the trial of Jesus and a pork comment made by a defense lawyer for Cisco Systems during a federal trial have led a judge to grant a new trial. Jurors in Marshall, Texas, last May awarded Commil USA more than $3.7 million in patent infringement damages, though the company asked for $57 million. Commil charged in a motion for a new trial that the remarks and illusions to the trial of Jesus Christ prejudiced the jury in the case, The American Lawyer reported. Judge Charles Everingham IV, who presided over the original trial, on Dec. 29 granted the motion for a new trial.\n

Jews were targeted for being different, New Hampshire legislator says

Jewish Journal January 11, 2011

A New Hampshire state legislator is under fire for suggesting that Jews were vulnerable during the Holocaust because they were different. Rep. Jordan Ulery, a Republican, introduced a law that would require any shop featuring signs in any language other than English to also include all the official U.N. languages: French, English, Russian, Chinese, Spanish and Arabic. \”When you establish a ghetto, you\’re leaving yourself open to what happened to the Jews in Eastern Europe because you\’re setting yourself up to be different,\” Ulery told Sunday\’s edition of the Union-Leader newspaper. The Concord Monitor quoted him as telling Fox News, \”When you do not participate in your society around you, and when you become different, you become subject to what the Nazis did to the Jews.\” New Hampshire Democrats called the comments anti-Semitic.

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