CER President Goldshmidt said his organization “offers to the Rabbis of Ukraine to establish a rabbinical committee to save the refugees and will stand behind them.”
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has criticized as “abhorrent” a beauty contest appearing on a Russian social media site asking members of a pro-Hitler group to vote for their favorite pictures of anti-Semitic women.
The World Jewish Congress announced its support for a change in United States law that presently allows certain presumed Nazi war criminals who were granted US citizenship by making false statements to immigration authorities to keep their social security entitlements in case they voluntarily leave the country.
A delegation from the Belgian Jewish community met Monday with Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Jan Jambon whose recent statements regarding wartime collaboration sparked a controversy and a debate in the country.
According to press reports, a young Jewish girl is among one hundred of French teenagers who have fled France to join the terrorist Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.
The Director General of the European Jewish Association (EJA) Rabbi Menachem Margolin expressed concern at plans by a minister of the Flemish government to implement a total ban on the practice of Jewish ritual slaughter, insisting such a move “is against freedom of religion”.
On the night of September 23, 2014, unknown vandals desecrated the Menorah - a memorial to the Jews who were murdered in the Babiy Yar in Kyiv. The act of vandalism was committed the day before Rosh-ha-Shana, the Jewish new year, and the anniversary of mass shootings of Jews in the Babiy Yar.
Ahead of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which will begin next week, Pope Francis has received a delegation of 40 international Jewish leaders at his residence in Rome.
‘’Denying the existence of Israel is the first step towards anti-Semitism’’, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls declared at a ceremony held Thursday at the Great Synagogue of rue de la Victoire in Paris.
