Warsaw announces legislation against use of phrase ‘Polish death camps’, moves to strip Holocaust scholar of Polish award

News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 15 February 2016

A year on, Denmark mourns victims of Copenhagen terror attacks

In Copenhagen, thousands on Sunday honored the two victims of the terrorist attacks carried out by a jihadist gunman at a cultural center and the Danish capital’s main synagogue a year ago with flowers, speeches and a torchlight parade.

Serbian legislature passes compensation law for heirless confiscated Jewish property

The National Assembly adopted a bill under which annual payments of a around $1 million are made for the next 25 years to the country’s Jewish communities for property that was looted from its Jewish owners during and after the Holocaust.

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Warsaw to legislate against use of phrase ‘Polish death camps’

Poland is planning to adopt a law to punish people who use the phrase „Polish death camps” in relation to Nazi concentration camps in German-occupied Poland during World War II.

» Polish move to strip Holocaust expert of award sparks protests – The Guardian

Israeli’s former PM Ehud Olmert begins jail term for bribery, obstruction of justice – Associated Press

15 Feb 2016 Olmert walked into the Maasiyahu prison in central Israel hours after he released a video making a last-minute plea to Israelis meant to salvage his legacy. READ MORE »

Driver threatens to run down Jewish worshippers in South Africa – JTA

15 Feb 2016 Six identifiably Jewish men were threatened in a suburb of Johannesburg while walking home from synagogue. READ MORE »

German feature film on Anne Frank premieres – JTA

15 Feb 2016 The head of the Basel-based Anne Frank Fond, Yves Kugelmann, said that the film was Germany’s first cinema production of the Jewish girls killed at Bergen-Belsen in 1945. READ MORE »

Karol Markowicz: Scalia’s and Ginsburg’s powerful lesson for Jews – conservative and liberal alike – Forward

15 Feb 2016 We can all take a lesson from the late US Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia — and the unlikely friendship he enjoyed with with his fellow judge, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. READ MORE »

Moscow confirms it will provide Tehran with missile defense system shortly

15 Feb 2016 Russia will start the delivery of S-300 air defense missile systems to Iran shortly, according to a statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday. READ MORE »

Cuba hosts Jewish seminar after almost 60 years – JTA

15 Feb 2016 Latin American young adults who are interested in Jewish culture, education and leadership are meeting in Havana. READ MORE »

Sacred scrolls that survived Holocaust reunited after more than 50 years – Miami Herald

15 Feb 2016 Twenty-six of the more than 1,500 Torah scrolls that survived the horrors of World War II were reunited at Temple Beth El in Hollywood as congregants, Holocaust survivors and clergy came together to remember. READ MORE »

Venice’s Jews celebrate their history on 500th anniversary of world’s first ghetto – Haaretz

12 Feb 2016 Dwindling community hopes to get a boost from yearlong calendar of events that includes U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a production of Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice.’ READ MORE »

News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 15 February 2016

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