A group of Muslims in the Belgian southern town of Arlon decided to appeal for donations and human support to help refurbish the local synagogue, the oldest in the country, which is in poor condition.
Rabbi Menachem Margolin, Director General of the European Jewish Association and of the Rabbinical Center of Europe, has denounced a statement made by the head of Germany's Jewish community who advised Jews not to wear a kippah in areas were a large Muslim population lives, in the wake of increasing anti-Semitism in Europe.
China and the World Jewish Congress (WJC) will, for the first time, host an event in Shanghai to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Shanghai Ghetto and the end of World War II in China in September 1945.
World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald on Tuesday praised French President François Hollande for delivering a “great speech” at the annual dinner of CRIF, the umbrella group of French Jewishn organizations in Paris.
“Ida,” writer-director Pawel Pawlikowki’s stark black-and-white film, is an unsparing look at the discomfiting void left behind after the obliteration of Poland’s Jews.
World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder welcomed the ‘’heartwarming’’ initiative taken by a group of Norwegian Muslims to form a protective “ring of peace” around a synagogue in Oslo on Saturday in solidarity with European Jews and victims of recent anti-Semitism.