Preparations continue for holding a meeting of the EU-Israel Association Council and the process has not been frozen, a senior EU official told reporters on Friday ahead of a meeting of the EU Foreign Ministers Monday in Brussels.
Five headstones were found toppled Thursday morning at the Waad Hakolel Cemetery, also known as the Stone Road Cemetery, in the city in western New York, according to News 10 NBC WHEC.
''World leaders need to unequivocally condemn anti-Semitism wherever it is found,’’ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an address broadcast by video to the Jewish Policy Institute Conference in Jerusalem.
‘’Recent threats targeting Jewish Community Centers and vandalism of Jewish cemeteries, as well as last week’s shooting in Kansas City, remind us that while we may be a Nation divided on policies, we are a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all its forms,’’ said US President Donald Trump as he opened his much anticipated address to a special joint session of the American Congress by condemning the recent spate of anti-Semitic incidents across the country.
In the beginning of the month Yahad, FJC’s special programs platform, conducted two unique seminars for young Jewish people that opened to them the world of Jewish learning like they’ve never seen before.
Following a new wave of bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers (JCCs) and day schools in several US states, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) issued a security advisory to Jewish institutions across the country.
The anti-Israel Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions (BDS) movement suffered a setback in Belgium after calls by several BDS-linked organisations for the country to cancell its participation in a European cooperation project which is led by an Israeli institution.
