As EU Council President Donald Tusk starts Tuesday a two-day visit to Israel, Jerusalem voiced strong opposition during a high-level diplomatic meeting with the EU over its plans to label goods produced beyond the Green Line, a step which is viewed as ‘’very grave’’, Israeli diplomatic officials quoted by The Jerusalem Post said.
Europe’s leaders reaffirm their commitment to fight the wave of anti-Semitic acts that have blighted cities across the European Union and to reinforce ties with the Jewish communities, in their greetings to Rabbi Menachem Margolin, General Director of the European Jewish Association (EJA), ahead of the celebrations of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which will begin in the evening of next Sunday.
A brutal anti-Semitic attack at a train stop in Manchester left a 17-year-old Jewish boy beaten unconscious and several others injured, the Jewish News reported.
European Jewish Association (EJA) General Director Rabbi Menachem Margolin has appealed other community leaders to join a planned visit this week to a refugee camp in Brussels.
It is important for me to live in a country where each year it becomes more and more clear that today’s citizens of Ukraine are mostly descendants of those righteous Ukrainians rather than of executioners.
For their first meeting since Luxembourg took over the EU presidency in July, the 28 EU Foreign Ministers are discussing Friday and Saturday in Luxembourg the current migrants and refugees influx, the Middle East peace process, the Iranian nuclear agreement and issues in Eastern European countries, as well as Russia.
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini will address the European Parliament in Strasbourg on the EU's role in the Middle East Peace Process and on the Iran nuclear agreement.
