Jewish refugees from Arab countries recalled
JERUSALEM (WJC) — On Sunday, Nov. 30, Israel officially remembered the suffering of an estimated 850,000 Jews who left, were expelled from, or fled from their homes in, Arab and other Muslim countries...
View ArticleProtecting Jewish student rights on college campuses
By Melanie Goldberg/JNS.org BROOKLYN, N.Y. (JNS) — It all started when I took out some anti-BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) information sheets at a Brooklyn College-sponsored event last year...
View ArticleFrench react to anti- Semitic robbery, rape
PARIS (WJC) –France is in shock after a young Jewish couple was assaulted in what police are treating as an anti-Semitic attack. Two adult men from Créteil, the Paris suburb where the attack took...
View ArticleFrench officials vow fight against anti- Semitism
CRETEIL, France (WJC) — The French government on Sunday vowed to make the fight against anti-Semitism a “national cause,” following an attack on a Jewish couple last week. Interior Minister Bernard...
View ArticleCongress: No more Social Security for ex-Nazis
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WJC)–Both Houses of Congress last week approved a bill aimed at shutting a loophole that has allowed suspected Nazis to be paid millions of dollars in benefits. Under the bill,...
View ArticlePoland’s high court reinstates shechita
NEW YORK (WJC) — The World Jewish Congress (WJC) hailed Wednesday’s ruling by Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal, which found that the ban on religious slaughter is unconstitutional, as a “landmark...
View ArticleAuschwitz prepares for 70th anniversary of liberation
AUSCHWITZ, Poland (WJC)–More than 100 Auschwitz survivors from at least 17 countries will travel to Poland to participate in the observance of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German...
View ArticleIran mounts anti- Israel hate campaign on social media
NEW YORK (WJC) — Iran’s leadership has launched a social media campaign encouraging people to express their hatred toward Israel. The ‘We Love Fighting Israel’ received praise from Ayatollah Ali...
View ArticleJewish schools locked down in Sydney
SYDNEY, Australia (WJC) –More than a dozen people were being held hostage on Monday by a gunman who forced them to display a flag of the Islamic State in the window. The building in which the café is...
View ArticleP.A. plans new U.N. push for statehood
UNITED NATIONS (WJC) — The PA plans to submit a draft resolution on ending the Israeli occupation to the United Nations Security Council and will seek a vote on it as early as this Wednesday, senior...
View ArticleFrench aliyah could top 7,000 in 2014
JERUSALEM (WJC) — Despite a rise of 7 % of the immigration to Israel from North America, aliyah from France to Israel this year will be more than double that from the United States, according to...
View ArticleIsrael expects 70,000 visitors for Christmas
JERUSALEM (WJC) — The Israeli Tourism Ministry is working in cooperation with church officials and other bodies to facilitate the celebration of Christmas by the 70,000 visitors expected to arrive in...
View ArticleVandals strike Jewish cemetery in Greece
LARISSA, Greece (WJC) — The Jewish cemetery in the Greek town of Larissa was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti signed by “Larissa Skins” on December 23rd. Following this act of vandalism, the...
View ArticleEgyptian court nullifies Jewish festival
CAIRO, Egypt (WJC) — Magda Haroun, the head of the tiny Jewish community of Egypt, described a court ruling banning the annual Abu Hasira festival as “unconstitutional.” The Alexandria Administrative...
View ArticleHamas leader may be expelled from Qatar
ANKARA, Turkey (WJC) — Exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal is expected to leave his base in Doha and relocate to Turkey, Turkish press reports indicated on Tuesday. The Persian Gulf emirate Qatar has...
View ArticleFrance arrests 54 for glorifying terror
PARIS (WJC)– At least 54 people, including the anti-Semitic comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala, have been detained by police in France for “defending or glorifying terrorism” in the wake of last week’s...
View ArticleGermany honors Ronald Lauder
WASHINGTON (WJC) –Ronald S. Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, was decorated with Germany’s highest honor, the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit. In a ceremony held at the German...
View ArticleTerror threat closes Jewish schools in Belgium
BRUSSELS (WJC) — Jewish schools in Brussels and Antwerp were closed Friday due to the heightened terror threat against sensitive targets, one day after the Belgian police conducted a wide anti-terror...
View ArticleArgentina’s AMIA prosecutor found dead of gun shot
BUENOS AIRES (WJC)–Alberto Nisman, the Argentine prosecutor who last week accused President Cristina Fernandez of trying to whitewash Argentina’s worst ever bombing, was found dead in his apartment on...
View ArticleStrike on Iran’s general, Hezbollah, preemptive
JERUSALEM (WJC) — Senior Iranian and Hezbollah figures killed in an airstrike in Syria last weekend were likely planning an attack on Israel, media report, citing Israeli security sources. Six Iranian...
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