News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 13 May 2013

News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 13 May 2013

Following WJC Plenary Assembly Hungarian court convicts three over anti-Semitic abuse

A Budapest court has given prison sentences to three men who verbally abused visitors to the WJC Plenary Assembly held last week in the city.

Bulgarian street-naming request in DC stirs broader debate over country’s role in Holocaust

13 May 2013 A request by the Bulgarian Embassy to name a Washington intersection after a man credited with helping save the country’s Jewish population from deportation has gotten tangled up in a broader debate about whether the nation is accurately accounting for the actions of its leaders during the Holocaust. READ MORE »

The Middle East’s other refugees

13 May 2013 The situation of Jewish refugees from Arab lands must be recognized. READ MORE »

Disco opening at former Jewish learning center stirs controversy

13 May 2013 The rundown building, built in 1896, was restituted more than a decade ago to the local Jewish religious community, which has rented it out to the club’s proprietor. READ MORE »

ADL raps journalism museum for honoring Hamas cameramen

13 May 2013 Group charges move by Newseum in Washington is ‘an insult to other journalists’; museum defends choice READ MORE »