UN Mission of Israel honor aspiring young women engineers

UN Mission of Israel honor aspiring young women engineers

 

News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 01 March 2016

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Israeli soldiers accidentally enter Palestinian refugee camp, escape clashes unscathed

The incident at Qalandiya, near Ramallah, sparked clashes in which one Palestinian was killed and 15 people were wounded.

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Women Engineers of Tomorrow: WJC and Israel’s UN Mission honor aspiring young female engineers

“The World Jewish Congress is pleased to be involved in such an important initiative to empower girls to become the successful leaders of tomorrow,” said WJC CEO Robert Singer.

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Farrakhan praises Trump for rejecting ‘Jewish’ money – The Hill

01 Mar 2016 Donald Trump „is the only member who has stood in front of Jewish community and said, ‘I don’t want your money,’” Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said on Monday.  READ MORE »

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Two months on, anti-Semitic graffiti remains at Polish Jewish cemetery – Times of Israel

01 Mar 2016 Over two months after anti-Semitic and pro-Islamic State graffiti was spray-painted at a Jewish cemetery in central Poland, the offensive inscriptions have yet to be removed  READ MORE »

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Survivor born at Auschwitz says guard on trial in Germany ‘made hell possible’ – Daily Mail

01 Mar 2016 Angela Orosz Richt, a Holocaust survivor born inside the Auschwitz death camp, said in court in Detmold: „People like you, Mr. Hanning, made the hell of Auschwitz possible. People who looked on and assisted without asking questions.”   READ MORE »

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Trial of Auschwitz medic Hubert Zafke suspended in Germany – Guardian

01 Mar 2016 Doctor says 95-year-old, charged with being an accomplice in the murder of at least 3,681 people, is not fit to go to court.  READ MORE »

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Jewish professor saves three Ku Klux Klan members at California rally – JTA

01 Mar 2016 A Jewish attorney and scholar who tracks extremist groups is being credited with saving three Ku Klux Klan members at an anti-immigration rally in Southern California that turned violent.  READ MORE »

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Shimon Peres defies arrest threats on South Africa visit – Jerusalem Post

01 Mar 2016 Even though the South African Muslim Lawyers Association filed for him to be arrested for war crimes if he proceeded with his plan to address the South African-Jewish community’s gala, Israel’s former president remained unimpressed.  READ MORE »