WJC News Update – Ronald Lauder: Hungarian extremists showed their true colors by glorifying Hitler ally
Sajtóközleményben fejezte ki felháborodását a budapesti Horthy-szobor felavatása miatt hétfőn Ronald S. Lauder, a Zsidó Világkongresszus (WJC) elnöke.
News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 05 November 2013
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Ronald S. Lauder expressed outrage at Sunday’s ceremony in Budapest at which the far-right Jobbik party and 600 of its supporters unveiled a statue of Hungary’s wartime ruler Admiral Miklos Horthy, a close ally of Adolf Hitler until 1944. |
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05 Nov 2013 Semen Domnitser, a former administrator at the Claims Conference, was sentenced to eight years behind bars on Monday for running a US$ 57 million fraud that used Russian immigrants to pose as victims of the Nazis. READ MORE » |
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05 Nov 2013 The Israeli government has raised the legal marriage age from 17 to 18, following a fierce debate that split the Knesset and infuriated strictly Orthodox members of parliament. READ MORE » |
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05 Nov 2013 Addressing a news conference art historian Meike Hoffmann said the hundreds of art works found in the Munich apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt spanned from the 16th century into the 20th and were in very good condition. READ MORE » |
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05 Nov 2013 The World Jewish Restitution Organization urged Poland to honor its “unfulfilled commitments” to advance the compensation of Holocaust survivors for seized property. READ MORE » |
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05 Nov 2013 Extraordinary scenes unfolded in the Knesset Committee for the Interior when Arab MKs objecting to Jewish visitation rights at the Temple Mount wildly and ferociously denounced Jewish lawmakers before storming out of the hearing. READ MORE » |
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05 Nov 2013 AIPAC and AJC reject White House call for time-out on new economic pressure, while ADL amenable to administration’s approach. READ MORE » |
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