WJC News Update – Barbra Streisand wades into Israeli controversy about role of women

WJC News Update – Barbra Streisand wades into Israeli controversy about role of women

News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 19 June 2013

Barbra Streisand wades into Israeli controversy about role of women

American Entertainer Barbra Streisand touched one of Israel’s most sensitive issues on the first major stop of her tour of the country – religious practices that separate men and women.

Happy birthday, Mr. President – Times of Israel

19 Jun 2013 It was a love fest at Shimon Peres’s 90th birthday party Tuesday night, as world leaders, beloved performers and regular folk spoke, sang, and sent their messages of love and affection. READ MORE »

Peres honors ‘cherished friend’ Bill Clinton – Times of Israel

19 Jun 2013 In accepting Presidential Medal of Distinction, former US leader recalls his mistakes, calls on Israel to make peace with the Palestinians. READ MORE »

Engraver etches wrong birth year on Ed Koch tombstone – JTA

19 Jun 2013 A tombstone engraver made Ed Koch nearly two decades younger after carving the wrong birth year into the New York City mayor’s granite slab. READ MORE »

Turkish PM Erdogan welcomes Hamas leaders – Jerusalem Post

19 Jun 2013 Embattled leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has welcomed Hamas leaders Khaled Mashaal and Ismail Haniyeh for meetings in Ankara. READ MORE »

ADL blasts Alice Walker over ‘shocking’ new book – Jerusalem Post

19 Jun 2013 US author Alice Walker “has taken her extreme and hostile views to a shocking new level” in her latest book on intertwined personal, spiritual, and political destinies, according a review of the book by the Anti-Defamation League. READ MORE »

William Z. Slany, historian who exposed Nazi theft of Jewish property, dies at 84 – Washington Post

19 Jun 2013 William Z. Slany, a top State Department historian who helped oversee a study in the 1990s that exposed Nazi looting of Jewish property, has died. READ MORE »

North Korean leadership condemns Hitler Mein Kampf report – BBC News

19 Jun 2013 North Korea has blasted a report that its leader, Kim Jong-un, gave out copies of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf to officials on his birthday. READ MORE »