‘If possible, not Jewish’ job ad draws fire
PARIS (WJC) — A leading anti-racism group in France launched legal action on Monday, Feb, 2, after a job advertisement appeared online, which included the line “If possible, not Jewish” in a list of...
View ArticleAuschwitz rite honors victims, reminds Europe
By Alex Brummer AUSCHWITZ, Poland (WJC) — Wrapped in narrow striped blue and white scarves the survivors some ancient and frail, others upright, chests forward and proudly strong made their way out...
View Article2014 record anti- Semitic year in Britain
LONDON (WJC) — Attacks against British Jews have reached a record high fueled by an explosion of violence in the Middle East. Hate crimes of anti-Semitism doubled to 1,168 in a single year for the...
View ArticleRivlin backs building new town for Arab citizens
JERUSALEM (WJC) — Israel’s President Reuben Rivlin has lent his backing to plans to build a new town to accommodate Israel’s growing Arab minority. Rivlin met on Thursday at his residence with 50 Arab...
View ArticleUruguay expels Iranian ‘diplomat’
NEW YORK (Press Release) — The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has praised Uruguay for expelling a senior Iranian diplomat suspected of involvement with a bomb placed near Israel’s embassy in...
View ArticleUruguay names bomb- planting Iranian suspect
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (WJC)–Uruguay’s government has confirmed reports that Iranian diplomat Ahmed Sabatgold, 32, had left the country after being suspected by Uruguayan security forces of collecting...
View ArticleJewish population declines sharply in Europe
NEW YORK (WJC) — The last several decades saw a sharp decline in the number of Jews living in Europe, according to a report published Monday by the Pew Research Center, which is partly based on 2010...
View ArticleDurban University student council wants Jews expelled
DURBAN, South Africa (WJC) — Jewish students at the Durban University of Technology (DUT) who support the State of Israel, or receive funding from Israel, should be kicked out of the college, the...
View ArticleShip named for Nazi to be renamed
LONDON (WJC) — Edward Heerema, the Dutchman who named a ship the oil giant Shell wants to use to decommission an oil field in the North Sea after his late father, the Nazi supporter Pieter Schelte...
View ArticleSynagogue and cafe attacked in Copenhagen
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (WJC) — Following the attacks at a synagogue and café in Copenhagen, Denmark on Saturday, World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder strongly condemned the incidents and urged...
View ArticleAnother honor for Shimon Peres
NEW YORK (WJC)–Following is the text of a speech delivered by Ron Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, in honor of Israel’s former president, Shimon Peres, receiving a Lifetime Achievement...
View Article200 Jewish tombs vandalized in France
PARIS (WJC) — At least 200 tombs were desecrated and 100 mostly ancient headstones destroyed by vandals at a Jewish cemetery in Alsace, in eastern France, in what French Interior Minister Bernard...
View ArticleNazi faces 170K counts of accessory to murder
DETMOLD, Germany (WJC) — A 93-year-old man has been charged with 170,000 counts of accessory to murder on allegations he served as an SS guard at the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp in occupied Poland. The...
View ArticleJewish guard Dan Uzan buried in Copenhagen
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (WJC) — Crowds of mourners turned out for the funeral of the Jewish man killed in the Copenhagen shooting spree, as questions mounted about whether more could have been done to...
View ArticleOslo to close street leading to synagogue
OSLO, Norway (WJC) — The city of Oslo decided to permanently close to traffic the street leading to its main synagogue. Ervin Kohn, president of the Jewish Community in Oslo, told JTA that the...
View ArticlePoll: Americans view ISIS, Iran, as critical threats
NEW YORK (WJC) — A significant majority of Americans — some 77% of those polled — see the “development of nuclear weapons by Iran” as a “critical threat;” another 16% see it as “important but not...
View ArticleHollande: To protect Jews is to protect France
NEW YORK (WJC) – World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder on Monday, Feb. 23, praised French President François Hollande for delivering a “great speech” at the CRIF dinner in Paris which...
View ArticleMove to strengthen Jewish – Chinese ties
LONDON (WJC) — The World Jewish Congress on Monday hosted a luncheon in London in honor of Qiu Yuanping, the Chinese minister in charge of Overseas Chinese Affairs. Robert Singer, the WJC’s CEO, headed...
View ArticleKosovo seeks recognition from Israel
JERUSALEM (WJC) — In a speech before the Israel Council on Foreign Relations (ICFR), which operates under the auspices of the World Jewish Congress, Enver Hoxhaj, chairman of the Parliamentary...
View ArticleUNESCO moves against anti- Semitism
PARIS (Press Release) – World Jewish Congress CEO Robert Singer met on Tuesday, March 3, with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Director-General Irina Bokova...
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