WJC News Update – Ban on ritual slaughter passes without opposition in Belgium’s largest region

WJC News Update – Ban on ritual slaughter passes without opposition in Belgium’s largest region 

Ban on ritual slaughter passes without opposition in Belgium’s largest region – JTAOnly the two Labor Party lawmakers in the 75-member plenum in Belgium’s largest region abstained in the vote Wednesday, La Libre Belgique reported. Victor Eliezer: On anti-Semitism and the Greek mediaThe following is a paper presented by Victor Eliezer of the Greek Jewish community at a conference in Thessaloniki organized by the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

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