In his speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, US President Barack Obama regretted that too many Israelis were ready to abandon a bid for peace in the region and said that this was something ‘’worthy of reflection within Israel.’’
‘’Israel is the only place where Christians in the Middle East are safe,” Father Gabriel Naddaf, an Israeli Arab Greek Orthodox priest from Nazareth, told a session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva earlier this week.
On the night of September 23, 2014, unknown vandals desecrated the Menorah - a memorial to the Jews who were murdered in the Babiy Yar in Kyiv. The act of vandalism was committed the day before Rosh-ha-Shana, the Jewish new year, and the anniversary of mass shootings of Jews in the Babiy Yar.
Dear friends!
On behalf of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress I warmly congratulate all Jews, wherever they live, with the advent of the New Year 5775 on the Jewish calendar!
Several members of the Dnepropetrovsk Jewish community, including some who hold Israeli citizenship, are participating in the war on the Ukrainian side.
Ahead of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which will begin next week, Pope Francis has received a delegation of 40 international Jewish leaders at his residence in Rome.
