News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 02 December 2015
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The World Jewish Congress on Tuesday co-sponsored an event at UN Headquarters in New York to commemorate the expulsion of 850,000 Jews from Arab countries and Iran in the wake of Israel’s independence in 1948. |
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A 95-year-old must stand trial for charges that he assisted in the murder of at least 3,681 people at Auschwitz-Birkenau during World War II, a German judge ruled on Tuesday. |
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02 Dec 2015 A former Cambridge academic who told a 13-year-old Israeli girl she would answer her questions about horses when there is peace in Palestine has claimed “the Jews have become the Nazis”. READ MORE » |
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02 Dec 2015 French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve on Wednesday said three mosques had been shut down in France since the Paris attacks as part of a crackdown on extremist activities. READ MORE » |
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02 Dec 2015 The manager of a Judaica bookstore in Manhattan was insulted and punched by a man claiming to be a Muslim on Monday afternoon. READ MORE » |
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02 Dec 2015 Israel operated inside Syria „from time to time” to prevent advanced weapons from reaching Israel’s enemies in Lebanon, Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu said. READ MORE » |
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02 Dec 2015 „Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds seemed like an ordinary American soldier, but he had an extraordinary sense of responsibility and dedication to his fellow human beings,” said Avner Shalev, chairman of Yad Vashem. READ MORE » |
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02 Dec 2015 In 1992, Ilana Romano and Ankie Spitzer, whose husbands were among the Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, for the first time looked at gruesome pictures. READ MORE » |
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