Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the senior Democratic member of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, was appointed the Chairman of the International Council of Jewish Parliamentarians (ICJP), an initiative of the World Jewish Congress, this week at a two-day meeting of the group’s Steering Committee in New York and Washington.
A French detergent product under the infamous name ‘’Cyclone B’’ used by a European Union’s cleaning contractor has been put out of use following complaints by a Jewish group.
Jews and Muslims have decided to unite forces and lodge a complaint to the European Commission against Poland for maintaining the prohibition of ritual slaughter in the country, Rabbi Menachem Margolin, Director General of the European Jewish Association (EJA) and Poland’s Head Mufti, Tomasz Miskiewicz, announced Friday.
One day after reaching an agreement with Israel on the EU controversial settlement guidelines which will enable Israeli participation in a major EU research and innovation program, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton hosted Wednesday a EuroChanukah ceremony in the European Commission on the first of the eight-day Jewish festival of lights.
Norway's Children Ombudswoman Anne Lindboe's call to ban non-medical circumcision of minors in her country, as it is a violation of human rights, ‘’is charlatan and is not supported by any scientific facts,’’ said Rabbi Menachem Margolin, Director General of the European Jewish Association (EJA).
‘’Unlike many other countries in the world, there is no discrimination, no social hostility and no organized manifestation of anti-Semitism in Azerbaijan,’’ says Willy Fautré, Chairman of Human Rights Without Frontiers(HRWF), a Brussels-based NGO promoting human rights and religious tolerance at the European Parliament and in other EU institutions.
