“Barcelona is a city where Jews have been living for one hundred years and of which they are proud. We Jews will not leave our city,” a spokesman for the local Jewish community told The Times of Israel.
Booking.com, the hotel online reservation service, has removed from its website a hotel in Switzerland whose management put up signs singling out Jews.
Although SlutWalk Chicago said it would welcome religious symbols, it denounced the Zioness initiative Thursday for using the march to promote a ''nationalist agenda.''
To Jonny Daniels, founder of From the Depths, which promotes Holocaust commemoration in Poland, events like the one in Radzanów are “some kind of therapy taking place all over the country.”
The construction permit of a new synagogue in Sidney, Australia, has been denied on the grounds that it would be a security risk, a decision which has “effectively placed in jeopardy the future of Jewish life in Australia,” members of the Jewish community said, according to a report in The Australian Jewish News.
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban acknowledged his country’s “sin” in failing to protect its Jews during WWII, as he made a joint press statement after meeting with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Neyanyahu in the Hungarian parliament in Budapest.