WJC News Update – Greek extreme-right leader in racist slur against NBA player

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News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 30 August 2013

Jewish Diplomatic Corps to rejoin World Jewish Congress

WJC leadership hails „major investment in the future leaders of the Jewish people.”

Greek extreme-right leader in racist slur against NBA player

30 Aug 2013 Golden Dawn leader Nikolaos Michaloliakos, has made a racist slur against the Greek basketball player of Nigerian descent Giannis Antetokounmpo and described a former US senator as a „fanatical Jew and Zionist READ MORE »

Moscow mayoral candidate did not praise Holocaust, Jewish staffers say – JTA

30 Aug 2013 Jewish staffers for the campaign of Moscow mayoral candidate Alexei Navalny have denied reports that he praised the Holocaust. READ MORE »

German Jewish group calls for Roger Waters boycott – Times of Israel

30 Aug 2013 Iconic Pink Floyd founder accused of using ‘anti-Semitic and National Socialist’ imagery in performances READ MORE »

Jewish shtetl in Azerbaijan survives amid Muslim majority – JTA

30 Aug 2013 In a small town on the northern bank of the Kudyal river, 2,000 Jews have lived for nearly three centuries in their own shtetl, one of the world’s few remaining all-Jewish towns outside Israel. READ MORE »