World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder on Thursday welcomed a decision by a court in Versailles, France to allow the extradition to Belgium of Mehdi Nemmouche.
Security of the Jewish community in Belgium should be on the agenda of the future government but also at European level,'' said Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders.
World Jewish Congress Vice-President Dieter Graumann, the head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, has expressed outrage at an attack against an 83-year-old man during a solidarity rally in Hamburg, Germany for the three Israeli teenagers kidnapped in the West Bank nearly two weeks ago.
The Belgian federal government will cover the cost of the security of Jewish institutions in Belgium following the attack at Jewish mueum I,n Brussels in which four people were killed on May 24.
Jewish groups praised the New York Metropolitan Opera’s announcement that it had canceled plans to broadcast the opera ''The Death of Klinghoffer,'' following criticism that the opera glorifies murder and could fan global anti-Semitism.
Mario Balotelli, the Ghanaian-born Milan AC striker who scored the decisive second goal in Italy’s 2-1 victory against England was adopted and raised by a Jewish family from the age of three.
