Scarlett Johansson defends her SodaStream engagement against critics

WJC News Update – Scarlett Johansson defends her SodaStream engagement against critics

News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 17 March 2014

ScarJo defends SodaStream role against critics

US actress Scarlett Johansson has defended her decision to appear in advertisements for the Israeli company SodaStream, which operates a factory in the West Bank.

White powder mailed to Hungarian Jewish leader – Times of Israel

17 Mar 2014 Substance sent to Andras Heisler deemed not harmful / Swastikas, anti-Semitic slurs written on Jewish tombstones outside Budapest. READ MORE »

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters denies he is anti-Jewish after he backs boycott of Israel – Daily Mirror

17 Mar 2014 Rock legend Roger Waters has denied suggestions he is anti-Jewish, angrily insisting: “My father died fighting the Nazis.” READ MORE »

Submerged: the Jewish woman who hid from Nazis in Berlin – The Observer

17 Mar 2014 Marie Jalowicz Simon was one of 1,700 ‘U-boats’, German Jews who survived the war submerged below the surface of daily life. Now she has told all in a book. READ MORE »

Ukrainian Jewish leaders blame Russia for anti-Semitic ‘provocations’ – Jerusalem Post

17 Mar 2014 An attack on a Ukrainian rabbi over the weekend was a provocation, intended as a “justification for the continuation of Russian aggression” in Crimea, one Ukrainian Jewish leader asserted on Saturday. READ MORE »