UNESCO chief Irina Bokova praises Israeli educational initiative in favor of hospitalized children

 UNESCO chief Irina Bokova praises Israeli educational initiative in favor of hospitalized children

 

News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 14 April 2016

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UNESCO chief Irina Bokova praises Israeli educational initiative in favor of hospitalized children

Education Without Borders: World Jewish Congress, Israeli mission present photo exhibition at UNESCO in Paris

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In Ukraine, a Jewish wunderkind becomes prime minister – JTA

14 Apr 2016 Vlodymir Groysman’s Jewishness is not very unusual, even for a mayor and senior politician in Ukraine, where 360,000 Jews live. But his openness about it was not customary in a country where anti-Semitism and decades of Communist repression once made it undesirable for politicians to be seen as too Jewish, said the local rabbi, Shaul Horowitz.  READ MORE »

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World Jewish Congress hosts debut of Kamp! Songs and Satire From Theresienstadt

14 Apr 2016 The album is a reconstruction of songs and cabaret acts all written by Jewish artists imprisoned in the concentration camp during World War II.  READ MORE »

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Israeli envoy hopes new UN Secretary General will be ‘fair and balanced’ – Jerusalem Post

14 Apr 2016 Danny Danon says supporting a specific candidate to replace Ban Ki Moon as UN Secretary General, but will not disclose which one, he told The Jerusalem Post in an interview this week.  READ MORE »

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Ax-wielding Palestinian attacks soldier in West Bank, is shot dead – Times of Israel

14 Apr 2016 In separate incident, two 12-year-old Palestinian kids arrested with knives in Jerusalem, are suspected of planning an attack.  READ MORE »

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Polish police grill Princeton historian over claims of Poland’s Holocaust complicity – JTA

14 Apr 2016 The crime of publicly insulting the Polish nation is punishable by up to three years in prison. Jan Gross has not been charged with a crime.  READ MORE »

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Israel’s ambassador to Hungary blasts mainstream daily’s anti-Semitic columns – JTA

14 Apr 2016 Ilan Mor’s April 4 letter to Peter Petan, editor-in-chief of Magyar Hirlap, were about articles by Zsolt Bayer, a co-founder of the ruling Fidesz party, that “openly advocate anti-Semitic sentiments and incite against the Jewish People and the State of Israel,” the Jewish weekly Szombat reported Monday after obtaining a copy of the letter.  READ MORE »