WJC News Update – Netanyahu’s Poland visit steeped in history

Offenbach Jewish leaders demand probe into attack on rabbi – JTA

12 Jun 2013 Jewish leaders in the German city of Offenbach rejected an offer to let bygones be bygones in the aftermath of an anti-Semitic attack on their rabbi.  READ MORE »

Le Chambon: Village saved thousands of Jews in World War II – BBC News

12 Jun 2013 A small French village which saved thousands of Jewish people and refugees from the Nazis has opened a museum dedicated to its wartime secret. READ MORE »

Mobile synagogue established on national toll road – Israel Hayom 12 Jun 2013 A portable synagogue has been established on the trans-Israel Route 6 for the benefit of the pious. READ MORE »

Jewish and Orthodox church leaders meet in Greece

12 Jun 2013 Leading Orthodox Christian and Jewish officials, scholars and clerics discussed the importance of protecting the environment and religious values and condemned growing incidents of anti-Semitism and religious prejudice during a conference in Thessaloniki. READ MORE »

Poland-bound Netanyahu backtracks on joint peace statement – Jerusalem Post

12 Jun 2013 Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu distanced himself from an official communique released by his bureau and which was to serve as a joint statement with the Polish government, media reported Wednesday. READ MORE »

Nearly 70 years after liberation, Holocaust memorials continue to proliferate – JTA

12 Jun 2013 No earth was moved last month at the groundbreaking of one of the nation’s newest Holocaust memorials.Instead, the gatherers stood silently, symbolic shovels in hand, on the immaculate lawn where the privately funded US$ 400,000 monument will soon rise.  READ MORE »