On July 22nd, the work of the first, younger group of the International Children's Summer Camp “Roots of Tolerance” had been officially concluded. The camp was held at the Kremenitsy tourist camp in the Eastern Carpathians (Vyzhnytsa, Chernovitskaya oblast', Ukraine).

It is with great pain and anger that the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress has learned of the cruel terroristic attack in Burgas.

Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) Deputy Secretary Genera Haim Ben Yakov has participated in the 2nd Festival of Ukrainian Culture in Israel, which has taken in place in Rehovot, in a hall of the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Veterans of the Independent Jewish Movement in the former USSR have learned with great sadness of the passing away of a major American community leader, a veteran defender of the rights of Soviet Jews, Joseph Schmuckler, who had been 84.

On July 10th, the junior group of the Roots of Tolerance – 2012 camp began its work at the Kremenisi tourist camp (Vyzhnytsa, Chernovitskaya oblast', Ukraine).

The leadership of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) looks with alarm and utmost concern upon the decision of the Cologne (Germany) district court to view the circumcision of boys, traditional for Judaism and Islam, as a crime.

The 8th Annual International International Festival of Jewish Children's and Youth Creativity Freilehe Kinder took place in Karaganda, Kazakhstan, in late June – early July.