News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 10 April 2013

Portuguese lawmakers to grant citizenship for descendants of expelled Jews

The parliament of Portugal is scheduled to vote on whether to naturalize descendants of 16th century Jews who fled the country because of religious persecution.

A tour of Schindler’s Kraków, 70 years after the city’s Jewish ghetto was emptied – Daily Mail

10 Apr 2013 „Before the war, more than 68,000 Jews lived in Kraków,’ intoned our guide Bartek, looking mournfully around the crumbling ghetto square. ‘Now there are just 150.” READ MORE »

New York: Jewish artifacts burned in potential hate crime – CNN

10 Apr 2013 Police have identified a suspect in a string of potential hate crimes in New York in which 12 mezuzahs were set ablaze as they hung on door frames outside Jews’ homes. READ MORE »

Erdoğan’s Gaza visit to take place after Obama meeting – Hürriyet

10 Apr 2013 Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said he would probably visit Gaza after his trip to Washington in May. READ MORE »

Italian court convicts for neo-Nazis inciting to racial hatred on website

10 Apr 2013 A judge in Rome convicted four men of inciting racial hatred on a neo-Nazi website and sentenced them to between two and three years of house arrest. READ MORE »

Western Wall egalitarian prayer section sees broad consensus – Times of Israel

10 Apr 2013 Sharansky proposal for new Western Wall arrangements said to be given seal of approval by ultra-Orthodox authorities, government and progressive Jewish leaders READ MORE »