In New York, Charlotte Knobloch, a German Jewish leader and former vice-president of the World Jewish Congress, was presented Tuesday with the Distinguished Humanitarian Award of the Bnai Zion Foundation.
”The support of the Polish Catholic Bishops’ Conference (KEP) for the campaign to overturn the ban on religious slaughter in Poland was highly significant and warmly welcome,” said Ronald S. Lauder President of World Jewish Congress on Monday.
Thousands of people demonstrated Wednesday in Athens and in the second largest Greek city, Thessaloniki, against the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party following the killing of anti-racist activist and hip hop performer Pavlos Fissas by one the party’s supporter.
“It is high time Greek politicians honor their pledge and adopt effective legislation that will put an end to completely unacceptable harassment of immigrants, ethnic minorities, immigrants and political opponents by the extremist Golden Dawn party,” World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder said on Monday.
Build on the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto, the Museum of the History of Polish Jews (MPJ) tells an unusual story of the fate of once the biggest Jewish community in the world.
The Greek government said it will seek to ban the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party after it was linked to the murder of Pavlos Fyssas, a prominent anti-fascist hip-hop musician in Athens.
Kosher slaughter should be allowed again immediately in Poland, according to a legal opinion drafted by Polish lawyer and former Deputy Prime Minister Roman Giertych.
French extreme right leader Marine Le Pen supports a joint campaign for next year’s European Parliament elections with Geert Wilders, leader of the anti-Islamic and anti-immigration Party for Freedom (PVV) in Holland.
Nine people injured in attack carried out by neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party members in Athens. Thousands respond in rally against radical rightist party, which gained support in wake of economic crisis, thus increasing separation between country's political wings, xenophobia
