As part of the protest and fight against revived anti-Semitism in Hungary, the Rabbinical Center of Europe has decided to hold its bi-annual General Assembly in Budapest in March.
Ambassador Gideon Behar, Director of the Department for Combating Anti-Semitism at Israel’s foreign ministry, was key speaker at a ‘Workshop on Anti-Semitism in Europe and in the European Neighbourhood’ organized in Brussels by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and the AJC Transatlantic Institute.
Given the stakes of failure of comprehensive negotiations on the Islamic Republic's nuclear program, Catherine Ashton is already discussing an extension of the 5-month deadline to reach accord.
Air France has become entangled in the debate on the controversial 'quenelle' salute after airline’s senior employees were spotted making the gesture, a reverse Nazi salute, which has been labeled anti-Semitic.
Palestinian refusal to recognize Israel as the Jewish homeland, a precondition for a two-state solution set by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, thought to be holding up progress.
On January 24, 2014, a lecture titled “The Historical and Cultural Heritage of Ukrainian Jews” was read for the activists of the Euromaidan civil protests. The lecturer was a Jewish studies and Kyiv history expert Igor Golfman, better known under his nickname Ezra Knizhnik (Ezra the Scribe).
Jews around the world reacted with surprise and criticism to the fact that European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton omitted any mention of the Jewish victims in the statement she issued Monday on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in which she called to ‘’remain vigilant against the dangers of hate speech and redouble our commitment to prevent any form of intolerance.’’
