France issues warrants for 3 suspected terrorists
PARIS (WJC) — France has issued international arrest warrants for three men suspected of involvement in a deadly attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris in 1982, a judicial source told the news agency...
View ArticleKhamenei reportedly fighting stage-four cancer
By World Jewish Congress Iran’s top leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is reportedly in serious condition at a hospital in Tehran, according to media reports.Khamenei is suffering from prostate cancer...
View ArticleSam Benatar, 86, Zimbabwe Jewish leader
HARARE, Zimbabwe (WJC) –Tributes have flowed in for the late Sam Benatar, the president of the Zimbabwe Jewish Board of Deputies and one of Zimbabwe Jewry’s most experienced and active communal...
View ArticleConference to probe Allies’ role in Holocaust
JERUSALEM (WJC) — An international conference addressing the question of why more was not done by the Allied Powers to save Jews during the Holocaust will be held at the in Jerusalem next week,...
View ArticleSerge Rozen new head of Belgium’s Jewish community
BRUSSELS (WJC)–The 62-year-old engineer Serge Rozen has been elected president of the Coordination Committee of Belgian Jewish Organizations for the next three years. Rozen succeeds Maurice Sosnowski,...
View ArticleHungarian Jewish experience probed in exhibit
TEL AVIV (WJC) — The exhibition ‘Tree of life – The Jews of Hungary, 1981-2004’ at Beit Hatfutsot in Tel Aviv displays a selection of 40 photographs taken by Andres Lacko. It reflect the changes in the...
View ArticleWJC meets officials in Norway, Finland, Denmark
HELSINKI, Finland (WJC)–World Jewish Congress CEO Robert Singer paid a visit to Finland, Norway and Denmark to discuss the situation of the Jewish communities in Scandinavia in the wake of the...
View ArticleUse of children in wartime condemned
GENEVA (WJC) — Jacob Turner, a member of the Jewish Diplomatic Corps of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), addressed a special session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on the rights of children...
View ArticleGreek 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...
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