World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S.Lauder has urged the government of Iceland to “strongly denounce” a decision adopted earlier this week by the City Council of Reykjavik, the country’s capital, to boycott all Israeli products until Israel “ends it occupation of Palestinian territories.”
Twitter users ridiculed Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday, after he posted a message wishing Jews well for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, celebrated on Monday and Tuesday.
European Jewish Association (EJA) General Director Rabbi Menachem Margolin has appealed other community leaders to join a planned visit this week to a refugee camp in Brussels.
It is important for me to live in a country where each year it becomes more and more clear that today’s citizens of Ukraine are mostly descendants of those righteous Ukrainians rather than of executioners.
The recent discovery in south-west Poland of a train that may contain gold, precious stones and other valuable property that may have been looted from Polish Jews by the Nazis during WWII has triggered a debate referring to who would have the right to legally claim the precious load.
The Belgian Government has confirmed its commitment to finance 4 million euros ($4,4 million) for structural measures to strengthen the security of Jewish institutions in Brussels and Antwerp.
A columnist and blogger for pro-Kremlin paper used a picture of Israeli shielding a baby during Operation Protective Edge, claiming it was a Ukrainian civilian separatist.
