Ronald Lauder urges Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán

Stop statue in honor of WWII-era anti-Semitic minister, Ronald Lauder urges Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán

World Jewish Congress

News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 03 December 2015

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Israel arrests alleged Jewish extremists over terror attack against Palestinian family

Several alleged Jewish extremists were arrested Thursday in Israel in conncetion with the firebombing of a Palestinian home in the West Bank in which a toddler and his parents were killed last July.

Stop Bálint Homan statue, Ronald Lauder urges Hungarian PM Orbán

World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder is calling on Hungary to stop the erection of a statue in the city of Székesfehérvár in honor of a World War II-era pro-Nazi minister.

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Saudi Arabia to sue Twitter user who called Palestinian poet’s death sentence ‘ISIS-like’ – Jerusalem Post

03 Dec 2015 Saudi Arabia’s Justice Ministry plans to sue a Twitter user who compared the death sentence handed down Friday to a Palestinian poet to the punishments meted out by Islamic State, a major Saudi newspaper reports. READ MORE »

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Jewish man reunited with Polish big sister who saved him from Holocaust – NBC News

03 Dec 2015 This Hanukkah, Michael Hochberg will be lighting the menorah with a Polish Catholic who pretended to be his big sister — and helped ensure his life was not extinguished during the Holocaust. READ MORE »

What Americans had to say about Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis – Forward

03 Dec 2015 They were called “so-called” refugees, told they were alien to American culture and warned against as potential enemies of the United States. READ MORE »

US Jewish student in hot water for confronting pro-Palestinians – Arutz Sheva

03 Dec 2015 A campus group at the University of Michigan has called for a Jewish student to be removed from serving on the school’s student government after he „verbally abused” a pro-Palestinian student at a demonstration. READ MORE »