WJC News Update – Don’t sell books that deny the Holocaust, World Jewish Congress urges Amazon.com

WJC News Update – Don’t sell books that deny the Holocaust, World Jewish Congress urges Amazon.com

News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 18 October 2013

Lauder in Vilnius for commemoration of 1943 Jewish ghetto liquidation

Ahead of his visit to Vilnius, WJC President Ronald S. Lauder praised Lithuania for communal property restitution and protecting kosher slaughter.

Don’t sell books that deny the Holocaust, WJC urges Amazon.com

In a letter to CEO Jeff Bezos, the World Jewish Congress has demanded that Amazon.com remove from its website books that deny the Holocaust and promote anti-Semitism and white supremacy.

Woody Allen: Many critics of Israel motivated by anti-Semitism – Jerusalem Post

18 Oct 2013 Woody Allen believes that anti-Israel sentiment is often anti-Semitism in disguise, the American film director told Israeli television. READ MORE »

Old Jewish men have valuable advice for Miley Cyrus – Bloomberg

18 Oct 2013 The singer Miley Cyrus, a subject of much controversy these past several weeks, mainly owing to her performance at the MTV Video Music Awards, is unhappy, despite her temporal success, with some of the advice she has lately received. READ MORE