The National Herald

greece is boiling (may 14)

May 17, 2012, 02:43 PM

Like many Greeks and Greek-Americans, I too feel an ever-growing need to grab hold of something steady to hold onto for dear life during this difficult period of insecurity and doubt of the motherland...

a terrible mistake (may 16)

May 17, 2012, 02:43 PM

Many serious observers in the Greek capital believe that holding a new round of elections may end up dealing a death blow to the economy and usher in Greece’s exit from the Eurozone. Indeed, it wo...

gets worse by the day (may 17)

May 17, 2012, 02:47 PM

One of the most important Greeks that I visited this morning gave me a book. It is entitled “Weimar: The Crippled Democracy, 1918-1933” (Polis Publications). The author writes “The Weimar Republic (…)...

ominous anniversary (may 17)

May 17, 2012, 02:47 PM

On May 5, 2010, three employees of Marfin Bank – including one pregnant woman – died of suffocation when protestors/murderers tossed explosives inside the bank. Yesterday at noon, at 25 Stadiou Street...

an inside look at the voters of greece’s extremist parties

May 17, 2012, 02:47 PM

By Yannis Palaiologos The New Republic ATHENS, Greece – The big winners of Greece’s election this week were parties far removed from the political center. From the leftist SYRIZA, which came in ...

james koutrelakos lecture on ethnic identity

May 17, 2012, 02:33 PM

NEW YORK – The Hellenic University Club of NY (HUC) jointly with the Greek American Behavioral Science Institute (GABSI) presented a lecture by revered academic and psychologist James Koutrelakos, PhD...

saint basil academy students raise funds to help people of greece

May 17, 2012, 02:34 PM

GARRISON, NY – The students of Saint Basil Academy held a bake sale to raise funds to help the people of Greece at the Academy’s main building on May 5, announced Executive Director Fr. Constantine Si...

holy trinity greek orthodox church of lowell honors behrakis family

Theodore Kalmoukos
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May 17, 2012, 02:34 PM

LOWELL MA – The historic Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Lowell Massachusetts honored George and Margo Behrakis for giving the church and the community an a new look and a new prospect for the f...

boston metropolis statistics: baptisms, weddings, divorces

Theodore Kalmoukos
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May 17, 2012, 02:34 PM

BOSTON, MA – The statistics deriving from the Boston Metropolis Registry reflecting the sacraments of Baptism, Chrismation, Marriage, Funerals, and Divorces are indicative of the conditions that exist...

greek-american stories: “panayia, panayia”

William Koonan Mentsas
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May 17, 2012, 02:36 PM

Uncle Sophocles and Aunt Andromahi were the respective patriarch and matriarch on Hellenic Hill. Well into their nineties, they were a motley and backward pair from the town of Ploumari on the island ...

students shine at hellenic times scholarship fund gala in new york

Constantine S. Sirigos
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May 17, 2012, 02:33 PM

NEW YORK – The 21st gala of the Hellenic Times Scholarship Fund (HTSF) was a thrilling sold-out affair at the Marriot Marquis in Times Square on May 12, with dining, dancing, and great musical enterta...

cypriot-americans gather to support berkley candidacy for us senate

Constantine S. Sirigos
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May 17, 2012, 02:34 PM

NEW YORK – On May 15 leaders of the Cypriot-American community hosted a fundraiser for Congresswoman Shelley Berkley of Nevada at Kellari Taverna in Midtown Manhattan. She is confident she will win he...

hellenic museum: top new cultural institution of 2011

TNH staff
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May 17, 2012, 02:34 PM

CHICAGO, IL – Every year the nonprofit civic group Friends of Downtown select businesses that represent the best that Downtown Chicago has to offer. The National Hellenic Museum (NHM) was chosen as t...

jpmorgan discloses $2 billion trade loss

TNH staff
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May 17, 2012, 02:33 PM

NEW YORK – Jamie Dimon, the Greek-American banking god and avowed enemy of efforts to tighten regulation of the financial industry, is on the firing line after the May 14 disclosure that J.P. Moran C...

marathon, ny metro area bank for sale

TNH staff
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May 17, 2012, 02:36 PM

NEW YORK – Marathon Bank, whose 13 branches in the New York Metropolitan Area are mainly in areas with substantial the Greek-American populations and many of whose customers belong to the community, w...

tv celebrity chef opens greek-american restaurant in irvington, ny

May 17, 2012, 02:39 PM

ByJerry Eimbinder riverstownpatch.com IRVINGTON, NY – MP Taverna, a Greek-American restaurant, opened for dinner in Irvington today on May 14, in the space previously occupied by Day Boat Cafe. Lu...

bloody thursday and the great west coast maritime strike of 1934

Steve Frangos
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May 17, 2012, 02:36 PM

CHICAGO, IL – Greek men and women can be found scattered across the pages of American history virtually from the time Christopher Columbus landed on Caribbean shores. Despite our own fault of not even...

greek festivals have great food, mediocre attractions

May 17, 2012, 02:43 PM

To the Editor: Greek Festival season is upon us. Three cheers to all the volunteers who will sacrifice time, talent, and treasure again this year. Especially time – a week or two of precious Greek-Am...

message of bolder change: greek voters have shown pasok and nd the door

May 17, 2012, 02:43 PM

To the Editor: After Sunday’s elections I can only say that the Greek people are finally starting to wake up. They have suffered enough from the scoundrels who have controlled the top positions for d...

greece in hands of caretaker government until new elections june 17

Andy Dabilis
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May 17, 2012, 02:33 PM

ATHENS – Five years into a deep recession with record unemployment, and a third year of protests against austerity measures demanded by international lenders in return for lifeline rescue loans, Greec...

question and answers about greece’s possible process of leaving the eurozone

May 17, 2012, 02:40 PM

By Geoffrey T. Smith, Matina Stevis and Stelios Bouras The Wall Street Journal There is no legal provision in European Union treaties for a country to exit the euro zone, putting experts in...

alexis tsipras: from political no one to someone, but still unknown

May 17, 2012, 02:40 PM

ATHENS – The international media has adorned Alexis Tsipras, the 37-year-old former land surveyor who has risen from heading the once-marginalized and fractious Coalition of the Radical Left known as ...

two greeks arrested for xenophobic hate crime

May 17, 2012, 02:40 PM

ATHENS – Greek depositors withdrew €700 million ($898 million) from local banks Monday, the country's president said, as he warned that the situation facing Greece's lenders was very difficult. In a...

two held in brutal attack on dutch retiree

May 17, 2012, 02:40 PM

ATHENS (AP) – Police in southern Greece have arrested two local men suspected of an apparently random xenophobic attack on an elderly Dutchman walking his dogs on a beach. A police statement says the...

greek far right party blasted for holocaust horrors denial

May 17, 2012, 02:40 PM

ATHENS (AP) – Greece's government on Tuesday strongly criticized the leader of an extreme right party who claimed that Nazi concentration camps did not use ovens and gas chambers to kill prisoners dur...

greek-american tv show host cat cora christens oceania riviera cruiseship

Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel
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May 17, 2012, 02:39 PM

ORLANDO, FL – It may not be Greece, but on the other side of the Mediterranean, someone is saying Opa! That's because celebrity chef Cat Cora just christened the new Oceania Riviera. Cora, a Greek-Am...

15 major oil and gas companies to bid for drilling rights off southern cyprus

May 17, 2012, 02:39 PM

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) – Major oil and gas companies such as Russia's Novatec, Italy's ENI, France's Total, and Malaysia's Petronas are among 15 firms and consortiums that are seeking to carry out explo...

cyprus president christofias will not seek second term

May 17, 2012, 02:39 PM

Nicosia, Cyprus (AP) – Cyprus President Dimitris Christofias says he will not seek re-election because there is little hope the ethnically split island will be reunified by the time his tenure expires...

cyprus popular bank in talks for gov’t guarantee

May 17, 2012, 02:39 PM

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) – Cyprus' second-largest bank says that it is in talks with the island's finance ministry and central bank on a possible recapitalization. Cyprus Popular Bank said in a statement...

deaths notice

May 17, 2012, 02:36 PM

n AGGELOPOULOS, EVAGGELOS A. CHICAGO, IL (From the Chicago Tribune, published on May 1) – Evaggelos Antoniou Aggelopoulos, age 84, born in Pelagos, Bosouna, Tripoli, Greece, beloved husband of Sophia...

goings on

May 17, 2012, 02:33 PM

n THRU MAY 30 PORTLAND, OR – The Hellenic-American Cultural Center presents a rare opportunity to purchase exquisite Orthodox icons from a private collection is offered by the Hellenic-American Cultu...

greece is falling out of europe

May 17, 2012, 02:48 PM

By Philip Stephens Financial Times The people of Greece have rejected austerity. You can scarcely blame them for throwing out a corrupt political establishment. It is also indisputable that the ec...

the choice that wasn’t

May 17, 2012, 02:48 PM

By Natalie Bakopoulos The New York Times Forty-five years ago, on April 21, 1967, a right-wing group of colonels seized power in Greece. Tanks rolled into the center of Athens; politicians, artist...

markets cast their 'votes' in greece, too

May 17, 2012, 02:48 PM

By Markos N. Kaminis wallstreetgreek.com NEW YORK - The wild speak coming from the Greek Syriza Party that was attempting to form a government last week shook up the world’s stock markets. What ma...

when you got nothing, you got nothing to lose

Andy Dabilis
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May 17, 2012, 02:47 PM

If former Prime Minister George Papandreou had the testicular fortitude after he was elected in 2009 to fire 150,000-200,000 needless public workers and put them in retraining programs to work in a pr...

should greece abandon euro and return to drachma?

Antonis H. Diamataris and Constantinos E. Scaros
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May 17, 2012, 02:43 PM

From time to time an issue emerges and inspires various minds to converge, often at odds with one another, to discuss it. Hopefully, collective enlightenment will result from such conversations. The A...

the greek tragedy of punitive austerity and economic contradiction

May 17, 2012, 02:48 PM

By Arianna Huffington New York Times As I follow the modern Greek tragedy unfolding in Europe, I flash back to the 18 years I spent in Athens, walking to school in Plaka (the old part of the city)...

alexis tsipras, the champion of greek outrage: bold, daring, cunning, dangerous

Nicholas Gage
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May 17, 2012, 02:48 PM

After the death of Pericles during the Peloponnesian War, Athenians allowed his seductive nephew, Alcibiades, then 35, to talk them into wasting most of their remaining military resources on a disas...

2012 presidential race - update

Constantinos E. Scaros
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May 17, 2012, 02:36 PM

That two-headed presidential candidate “Obamney” is actually beginning to show signs of a split personality. Barack Obama recently declared that he supports same-sex marriage – this, after long havi...

the current trouble with germany: overly rigid policies

Dr. Andre Gerolymatos
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May 17, 2012, 02:47 PM

It is all about history and because of history Berlin cannot impose its harsh economic remedies on the Europeans. Two world wars, the Holocaust, the price North America and the rest of the Europeans p...

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