''Because we have a very strong relationship with Israel, we have an opportunity to articulate our point of view on this issue. Settlements are an obstacle to the peace process and we don’t believe it is creating confidence, on the contrary, ''said Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel in Jerusalem where he is on a 3-day visit.
The European Union has started working on convening a high-level meeting with Israel in the framework of the the EU-Israel Association Council, the first such encounter in five years.
FJC’s Jewish community in Oryol, Russia celebrated the inauguration of a new Torah scroll last week – the first one for Oryol’s recently reclaimed synagogue.
Last month, over 10,000 young Jews joined Repair the World’s Martin Luther King day volunteering activities and the organization also held service projects and discussions in Washington DC.
The unexpected statement also emphasised that “the Trump administration has not taken an official position on settlement activity” and that “as the President has expressed many times, he hopes to achieve peace throughout the Middle East region”.
An exciting extra-curricular academic challenge was launched in Jewish schools across the FSU – the first round of Darkeinu “Olympics” 2017, an annual contest determining the champions of Jewish studies in the region.
Crif, the umbrella represenative group of Jewish institutions in France, welcomed the decline in racist and anti-Semitic acts in 2016 in the country but called for vigilance against the new faces of hatred.
