A historic delegation of 100 survivors of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz will head to Poland in the coming days to participate in the bservance of the 70th anniversary of the camp’s liberation. The survivors' group is being organized by the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and the USC Shoah Foundation and each survivor will attend the event with a child or grandchild.
No indication of Netanyahu's visit or even the invitation by US house speaker John Boehner was mentioned in a recent meeting with the Israeli ambassador, a US source says.
Defense minsiter visits IDF Northern Command HQ, warning that Israel ''will not tolerate attacks on it;'' IDF chief Gantz says the ''north is quiet, strong, and steadfast.''
The plea came from a number of Jewish communities in the Netherlands following an Islamist’s slaying on Jan. 9 of four Jews at a kosher supermarket near Paris.
French noted intellectual, philosopher and writer Bernard-Henri Levy denounced “the renewed advance of this radical inhumanity, this total baseness that is anti-Semitism” and the “delirium of anti-Zionism” in a keynote speech Thursday to the first-ever meeting convened by the United Nations General Assembly on the topic of anti-Semitism two weeks after the recent bloody terror attacks in Paris.