WJC News Update – Gurlitt leaves entire art trove to Swiss art museum

News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 08 May 2014

Rabbi and Muslim leader from Argentina to join Pope Francis for Holy Land trip

Rabbi Abraham Skorka and Sheikh Omar Abboud will be part of the papal delegation for the upcoming visit to Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories.

Gurlitt leaves entire art trove to Swiss art museum

08 May 2014 The German art collector Cornelius Gurlitt, who passed away on Tuesday aged 81, made the Museum of Art in the Swiss capital Bern his sole heir. READ MORE »

Israel to have female kashrut supervisors for the first time ever

08 May 2014 Nine women have completed the Israeli Chief Rabbinate’s exams to become kashrut inspectors, the newspaper ‘Haaretz’ reports. READ MORE »

New York’s MTA has a ‘Jewish’ lost-and-found section – Tablet

08 May 2014 And there are apparently 10 sets of subway riders’ forgotten tefillin inside. READ MORE »

Jewish leaders dispute reports of Odessa evacuation – Jerusalem Post

08 May 2014 Chabad in Odessa and the Russian Jewish Congress disputed claims that the city’s Jews were on the verge of leaving. READ MORE »

Former police officer suspected on spraying anti-Semitic graffiti in Brooklyn

07 May 2014 A former New York City police officer has been arrested on charges that he spray-painted anti-Semitic profanities on cars and buildings in a mostly Jewish neighborhood of Brooklyn. READ MORE »