Glenn Beck leaving his show to produce additional programming with Fox News…great
Jay Firestone
April 6, 2011
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April 6, 2011
Holocaust victims reburied in Romanian Jewish cemetery
Jewish Journal
April 6, 2011
The remains of dozens of Jews killed by Romanian troops during the Holocaust and found in a mass grave were reburied in a Jewish cemetery. The unidentified remains of at least 40 Jewish victims were reburied on Monday in the Jewish cemetery of Iasi in northeastern Romania.
Report: Palestinian forces harassing journalists in West Bank, Gaza
Jewish Journal
April 6, 2011
The severe harassment of Palestinian journalists by Palestinian Authority and Hamas forces in the West Bank and Gaza has had a chilling effect on freedom of expression, a new report by Human Rights Watch found. The 35-page report issued Wednesday documents cases in which Palestinian security forces tortured, beat and arbitrarily detained journalists in the West Bank and Gaza, in addition to confiscating their equipment and preventing them from leaving the Palestinian enclaves.
EU policy chief joins U.S., U.N. in rapping Gilo housing approval
Jewish Journal
April 6, 2011
European Union Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton joined the United States and the United Nations in condemning a Jerusalem committee\’s approval of new housing in Gilo. Ashton said Wednesday that she was \”deeply disappointed\” in the initial approval Monday by the Jerusalem Planning and Building Committee of the construction of 942 housing units in Gilo, a residential district in mostly Arab eastern Jerusalem. Other committees already had approved the plan. The units would be built on privately owned land as well as land owned by the Jewish National Fund, Haaretz reported.
Euroleague basketball finals changed to accommodate Israeli team
Jewish Journal
April 6, 2011
The start time of the Euroleague championship basketball game has been moved up by several hours to accommodate an Israeli team that does not want to play on its Memorial Day. On Wednesday, the Euroleague said the May 8 final of its Final Four tournament in Barcelona, Spain, would be played at 5:30 p.m. Israel time, so as not to interfere with Yom Hazikaron, the memorial day for fallen soldiers and victims of terror.
Save The Music: Dedicated to Hamilton High School & LAUSD
Susan Freudenheim
April 6, 2011
Phil Donney, who graduated in 2006 from Hamilton High School\’s Music Academy, home to many Jewish students as well as talented students throughout the city, has created this video in the face of huge looming cuts that threaten the very existence of the LAUSD public school Magnet programs, particularly the music programs like Hamilton\’s.
First Hillel hoops tourney tipping off at Maryland
Jewish Journal
April 6, 2011
Men’s and women’s teams from 20 colleges will compete at the University of Maryland in the inaugural National Hillel Basketball Tournament. Twenty-five men’s teams and seven women’s squads will be participating in the tournament this weekend, with the women\’s final at 3:15 p.m. Sunday and the men\’s final 30 minutes later.
First-ever translation of Yiddish cookbook yields Old World treasures, New World advice
Jewish Journal
April 6, 2011
When a rare volume of a 1914 cookbook written in Yiddish for American Jewish housewives came into the hands of Bracha Weingrod, the once popular but forgotten book began its long journey from dusty oblivion to celebrated translation. The thick, worn copy of “Dos Familien Kokh-Bookh,” now newly translated by Weingrod as “The Yiddish Family Cookbook,” is the only Yiddish cookbook on the market.
Two Nazi-looted paintings restituted to Vienna family
Jewish Journal
April 6, 2011
Two paintings confiscated by the Nazis from a Jewish family in Vienna have been returned to its heirs following two years of negotiations. The London-based Commission for Looted Art in Europe announced Wednesday that a work by Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein (1788-1868) was delivered by the Dresden Gemaldegalerie museum to London to be given to the heirs of the Rosauer family in Vienna. Another work, by Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder (1751-1830), was returned to the family in late 2010. It had been in the custody of the German government.
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