Greek city remembers Jews deported to Auschwitz
THESSALONIKI, Greece (WJC)– This city remembered its nearly 50,000 Jews sent to Nazi death camps during World War II. A memorial marking the 72nd anniversary of the roundup and deportation of...
View ArticleUK increases spending to protect Jewish sites
NEW YORK (Press Release)– The World Jewish Congress (WJC) on Thursday, March 19, welcomed an announcement by British Prime Minister David Cameron to increase spending to better protect Jewish...
View ArticleBiden: Speak up against anti- Semitism
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WJC) — The leadership of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) met in Washington, DC for its annual Executive Committee meeting to discuss the growing threats to Jewish communities and the...
View ArticleGreat Synagogue of Edirne, Turkey, reopens
EDIRNE, Turkey (WJC)–The deputy CEO of the World Jewish Congress, Maram Stern, was in Turkey this week to take part in the re-opening ceremony of the Great Synagogue of Edirne, which was restored for...
View ArticleCitizenship path for heirs of those Spain expelled
MADRID (WJC) –Spain’s Congress adopted a bill granting Spanish citizenship to the descendants of Jewish families expelled from the country in 1492, in a gesture of reconciliation. Legislators approved...
View ArticleRouhani sends letter to P5+1 countries
NEW YORK (WJC) — Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani sent a letter to the leaders of the P5+1 group, including US President Barack Obama, as negotiations continued in Switzerland over a possible agreement...
View ArticleNetanyahu: Emerging N-deal worse than feared
JERUSALEM (WJC) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called the outline of a nuclear agreement between Iran and Western powers as even “worse” than he had feared. “While [world powers]...
View ArticleAnne Frank may have died a month earlier than thought
AMSTERDAM (WJC)–According to new research Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who kept a diary about her life in Amsterdam hiding from the Nazis, died earlier in the Nazi camp Bergen-Belsen than previously...
View ArticleHackers threaten April 7 cyber- attack on Israel
JERUSALEM (WJC) — In a video message, the hacker group Anonymous has threatened Israel with an “electronic Holocaust” over the Passover holiday. The massive cyber attack on 7 April would fall just over...
View ArticleJewish reactions to Iran N- deal
-San Diego Jewish World roundup- (Developing story) World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder reacted on Thursday, April 2, to the preliminary agreement...
View ArticleHolocaust chants mar Dutch soccer game
UTRECHT, The Netherlands (WJC)– A Dutch soccer club is working to identify fans who chanted anti-Semitic slogans about the Holocaust during a match with a rival team from Amsterdam. The chants were...
View ArticleIsraelis fear lessons of Holocaust will be forgotten
JERUSALEM (WJC)– Over 80 percent of Israelis think the Holocaust will one day fade from memory, although it still resonates and influences daily life in the Jewish state, a poll conducted by The Center...
View ArticleNever Again: Holocaust news for October 22, 2015
JERUSALEM (WJC) — A delegation of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and the Israel Council on Foreign Relations (ICFR) met with Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė in Tel Aviv on Wednesday morning,...
View ArticleYitzhak Navon, Israel’s fifth president
JERUSALEM–Israel’s fifth president, Yitzhak Navon, died on Friday, Nov. 6, at the age of 94. He served as Israel’s president from 1978 to 1983. In New York, The World Jewish Congress issued a...
View ArticleNever Again: Holocaust news for November 9, 2015
By Ronald Lauder NEW YORK (WJC) Seventy-seven years ago tonight, the entire world faced one of history’s great moral tests. It failed miserably. On 9 November 1938, Adolf Hitler set loose the darkest...
View ArticleShultz calls for U.S., Egypt, Saudi, Israel alliance
By Ryan M. Greiss NEW YORK — Ronald S. Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), honored former Secretary of State George P. Shultz on Monday, Nov. 9, with the prestigious WJC Theodor Herzl...
View ArticleNever Again: Holocaust News for Nov. 17, 2015
Holocaust Remembrance must also look to the present and the future By Menachem Rosensaft WASHINGTON, D.C. (WJC)– Following are remarks delivered to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s...
View ArticleKing Felipe VI thanks Sephardim for their loyalty
MADRID, Spain (WJC) — King Felipe VI on Monday thanked Jews of Spanish origin who were expelled from the country in the wake of the March 1492 edict by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. “Dear...
View ArticleNever Again: Holocaust news for Dec. 2, 2015
ROSTOCK, Germany (WJC) — A 95-year-old German must stand trial for charges that he assisted in the murder of at least 3,681 people at Auschwitz-Birkenau during World War II, a judge ruled on Tuesday....
View ArticleIsrael arrests Jewish suspects in fire bombing
JERUSALEM (WJC) — Several alleged Jewish extremists were arrested Thursday in Israel in connection with the firebombing of a Palestinian home in the West Bank in which a toddler and his parents were...
View ArticleNever Again: Holocaust news for Dec. 3, 2015
Lauder urges Hungary to defund statue of Nazi collaborator NEW YORK (WJC) — The president of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), Ronald S. Lauder, called on Hungary to stop the unveiling of a statue in...
View ArticleNever Again: Holocaust news for December 16, 2015
Swiss banks publish list of bank accounts that have been dormant for 60 years GENEVA (WJC) — Swiss banks on Wednesday published the names of more than 2,600 people whose bank accounts in Switzerland...
View ArticleNever Again: Holocaust news for December 21, 2015
Plan dropped to honor Hungarian anti-Semite BUDAPEST. Hungary (WJC) — Following an international outcry, plans in Hungary to erect a statue in honor of the late Bálint Homan, who drafted anti-Jewish...
View ArticleNever Again: Holocaust news for December 22, 2015
Hitler admirer is new mayor of Ukrainian city KONOTOP, Ukraine — Jewish citizens in this northeastern Ukraine city of 92,000 are increasingly worried following the election of Artem Semenikhin, an...
View ArticleRadical Islamists, not refugees, are the West’s enemies
By Robert Singer NEW YORK (WJC) — The question of whether the West should take in Middle Eastern refugees is becoming irrelevant. Shutting the borders would be immoral. It would also be impossible. The...
View ArticleIDF prepares for possible battle with ISIS
JERUSALEM (WJC)–The IDF is preparing for the possibility that Russian air strikes will push Islamic State forces, currently around 40 kilometers away from the Israeli border, towards the Golan Heights...
View ArticleNetanyahu blasts Swedish foreign minister
JERUSALEM (WJC) — Benjamin Netanyahu lashed back at Sweden’s Foreign Minister Margot Wallström, saying her call to investigate whether recent killings of Palestinian attackers by Israel were...
View ArticleUNESCO chief hits Iran’s Holocaust cartoon contest
PARIS, France (WJC)– World Jewish Congress CEO Robert Singer on Tuesday praised UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova for issuing a clear condemnation the third edition of a Holocaust cartoon contest...
View ArticleManuel Tenenbaum, 1934-2016
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (WJC)– Manuel Tenenbaum, the long-time head of the WJC’s Buenos Aires office and executive director of the Latin American Jewish Congress (LAJC) from 1978 to 2007, has died here...
View ArticleNever Again: Holocaust News for February 15, 2016
Poland to outlaw phrase ‘Polish death camps’ WARSAW (WJC) — Poland is planning to adopt a law to punish people who use the phrase “Polish death camps” in relation to Nazi concentration camps in...
View ArticleGermany puts judge who helped Survivors on trial
JERUSALEM (WJC) — Colette Avital, chairwoman of the Center of Organizations of Holocaust Survivors in Israel, has launched a petition to Germany over the treatment of a German judge who has helped...
View ArticleAround the Jewish World: March 11, 2016
Actor Dustin Hoffman delves into Jewish identity on ‘Finding Your Roots’ (JNS.org) Hollywood actor Dustin Hoffman learned about the importance of his Jewish identity, after being raised without much...
View ArticleMacri to pursue AMIA, Israel Embassy bombing probes
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (WJC) — World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder on Tuesday welcomed Argentine President Mauricio Macri at a gathering of more than 400 Jewish leaders from around the...
View ArticleLauder: U.N. a ‘cesspool’ of anti- Semitism
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (WJC) — A special Plenary Assembly of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), attended by more than 400 delegates and observers from 67 Jewish communities, on Wednesday voted...
View ArticleAP rejects report that it cooperated with Nazis
NEW YORK (WJC) –The world’s leading press agency, the ‘Associated Press’ (AP), willingly collaborated with Germany from 1935 to 1941 to disseminate Nazi propaganda photos in the United States and...
View ArticleEuropean Jewish News: April 11, 2016
French far-right party founder fined for downplaying Holocaust PARIS (JNS.org) The founder and former leader of France’s far-right National Front party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, has been fined for denying...
View ArticleHamas tunnel to southern Israel destroyed
JERUSALEM (WJC) — The Israeli Defense Forces uncovered and destroyed a Hamas attack tunnel penetrating southern Israel, the first to be detected since the end of the military campaign in Gaza in the...
View ArticleSVP subject to Nazi- style persecution — Blocher
ZURICH, Switzterland (WJC)– The former leader of the populist Swiss People’s Party (SVP), Christoph Blocher, caused an outcry over the weekend after comparing the treatment of his party in a...
View ArticlePutin, WJC praise Russian Jewry
MOSCOW (JNS.org) — Russian President Vladimir Putin met with delegates from the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and the Russian Jewish Congress at the Kremlin on Tuesday to discuss Jewish life in Russia....
View ArticleBritain’s student union elects anti- Zionist as president
LONDON (WJC) — Malia Bouattia, who was elected president of the National Union of Students (NUS) in the UK on Tuesday, is facing criticism from Jewish students over controversial remarks about Israel....
View ArticleEl Salvador’s Castellanos honored by Germany
BERLIN (WJC) –Germany’s Foreign Office and the Centrum Judaicum Berlin held an event in the German capital in honor of José Arturo Castellanos Contreras, El Salvador’s consul-general in Geneva who...
View ArticleLieberman angling to become Israel’s defense minister
JERUSALEM (WJC) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched surprise talks on Wednesday with his former foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, the head of Yisrael Beiteinu party, on bringing...
View ArticleVan de Bellen defeats Haider in Austria
VIENNA (WJC) — The candidate of the far-right Freedom Party in Austria, once led by the late Jörg Haider, only narrowly failed in his attempt to win the country’s presidency after postal ballots were...
View ArticleMuslim ‘peace advocate’ exposed as a hater
ANTWERP, Belgium (WJC)– A 22-year-old Muslim woman from Belgium whose picture went viral after she posed defiantly in front of anti-Islam protesters is under fire for anti-Israel posts she made in 2012...
View ArticleEuropean Jewish News: June 17, 2016
Lauder: Auschwitz guard ‘got the sentence he deserved’ (WJC) Ronald S. Lauder, the president of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), on Friday welcomed the Detmold court’s verdict in the trial of former...
View ArticleBavaria accused of funneling stolen art back to Nazis
NEW YORK (WJC)- World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder said this week that he is dismayed by an investigation alleging that the German state of Bavaria had sold or given Nazi-looted art to...
View ArticleFrench religious leaders seek greater protection for houses of worship
PARIS (WJC) — Representatives of the Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Buddhist faiths spoke after meeting French President François Hollande. Fr. Jacques Hamel was killed while conducting morning mass in...
View ArticleKhamenei: Israel- Saudi warming a ‘stab in the back’
TEHRAN (WJC) — Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a harsh rebuke of Saudi Arabia on Monday for allegedly seeking better relations with Israel. “Revelation of Saudi government’s...
View ArticleEight months jail time for Holocause denier
HAMBURG, Germany (WJC) — An 87-year old German woman dubbed the ‘Nazi granny” by German media has been convicted of Holocaust denial and sentenced to eight months in prison for incitement to hatred....
View ArticleTrial of Auschwitz medic stalls amid legal wrangling
NEUBRANDENBURG, Germany (WJC)– The trial of a former medical orderly at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau resumed on Monday in Neubrandenburg, north of Berlin, with a call on the judge to recuse...
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