Never 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...
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