Hamas hails murder of 3-month-old baby
JERUSALEM (WJC) — The Gaza-based terror groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad have hailed the terrorist act in Jerusalem on Wednesday in which a baby girl died as “an act of heroism.” An Arab man from east...
View ArticleU.S. recruited Nazis as Cold War spies
NEW YORK (WJC) — Putting perceived security concerns before conscience, US intelligence and law enforcement agencies likely employed over 1,000 Nazis as spies during the Cold War, sometimes ignoring or...
View ArticleProtesters put pig’s head in kosher market
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (WJC) –Anti-Israel campaigners in South Africa placed a severed pig’s head in the kosher section of a Cape Town market, reportedly to express “solidarity with the Palestinians”....
View ArticleRabbis call for laws against hate speech
TBILISI, Georgia (WJC) — European rabbis have called on governments throughout the continent to pass laws targeting hate speech against Jews. The call was made in a resolution passed by the standing...
View ArticleNetanyahu: Abbas partly responsible for Glick shooting
JERUSALEM (WJC) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that incitement by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was partly to blame for the shooting of a Temple Mount activist a...
View Article‘Arbeit macht frei’ sign at Dachau stolen
MUNICH, Germany (WJC)–German police have a possible lead on who was behind the theft of the ‘Arbeit macht frei’ (Work sets you free) sign from the former Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, near Munich,...
View ArticleCzech Republic to stand by Israel
JERUSALEM (WJC) — Czech Foreign Minister Lubomír Zaorálek has assured Israel that “despite reports in the media to the contrary, the Czech Republic does not intend to make any strategic change in its...
View ArticleNetanyahu: No Jewish prayer on Temple Mount
JERUSALEM (WJC) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday rejected calls from right-wing lawmakers and ministers to lift restrictions on Jews praying on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, insisting there...
View ArticleEU’s new FM visits Israel
JERUSALEM (WJC)–The European Union’s new foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, has made her first official visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories. “It is true that never has the situation...
View ArticleKhamenei publishes plan to eliminate Israel
NEW YORK (WJC) — Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, released a detailed plan Sunday on how to wipe Israel off the map of the Middle East. On his official Twitter account, Khamenei...
View ArticleKissinger feted by World Jewish Congress
NEW YORK (WJC) –Former US Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger was this year’s laureate of the World Jewish Congress Theodor Herzl Award. At the annual gala dinner in New York, the 91-year-old...
View ArticleCanada extradites bombing suspect to France
OTTAWA, Canada (WJC) — Canada’s Supreme Court has paved the way for the extradition to France of a suspect in the 1980 terrorist attack against the Copernic Synagogue in Paris. The decision brings to...
View ArticleSpain’s Parliament may be next to recognize Palestine
MADRID (WJC) — The Spanish legislature will hold a vote on the recognition of a Palestinian state. Lawmakers from the opposition Socialist Party have proposed a non-binding resolution text which is to...
View ArticleS. African Jewish leader Mervyn Smith, z”l
NEW YORK (WJC) – Mervyn Smith, a longtime leader of the South African Jewish community and member of the World Jewish Congress Executive, passed away Saturday at the age of 77. Smith was the founder of...
View ArticleAshkelon’s Arab workers ban decried by Israeli officials
JERUSALEM (WJC) — Israeli politicians on Thursday, Nov. 20, lambasted the mayor of the southern city of Ashkelon for ordering a halt of construction on bomb shelters in city kindergartens in order to...
View ArticleWJC: Important to engage with United Nations
EILAT, Israel (WJC) –Robert Singer, chief executive officer of the World Jewish Congress, praised the work of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists in international organizations,...
View ArticleSwiss museum will exclude looted art works
BERLIN, Germany (WJC) — The Kunstmuseum Bern on Monday agreed to accept artworks from the collection of Hildebrand Gurlitt, whose son Cornelius Gurlitt willed them to the museum in the Swiss capital...
View ArticlePope Francis willing to open Pius XII archives
VATICAN CITY (WJC) — Pope Francis has reiterated his position to open the secret Vatican archives covering the period of World War II to allow researchers to assess the role played by Pope Pius XII...
View ArticleBern museum publishes list of Gurlitt art collection
BERN, Switzerland(WJC)–The Kunstmuseum Bern, which earlier this week accepted the Gurlitt bequest, has published a list of all art works found in the possession of the late Cornelius Gurlitt. The...
View ArticleVenezuelan lawmaker: Zionists, Bushes funded Hitler
NEW YORK (WJC) — A lawmaker of Venezuela’s governing party recently told Lebanese television that Zionists had bankrolled Hitler prior to World War II and suggested that “no representatives of global...
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