WJC President Ronald Lauder to give lecture in Switzerland on Nazi-looted art

‘Few people have the courage to speak out against injustice. He was one of them’: Publisher George Weidenfeld passes away at 96

News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 21 January 2016

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WJC President Ronald Lauder to give lecture in Switzerland on Nazi-looted art

World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder will speak to invited guests on the issue of Nazi-looted art and flight goods at the lecture hall of the Kunsthaus Zürich, on Tuesday, 2 February 2016.

Two Jewish teenagers suspected of vandalizing church in Jerusalem arrested

Two Jewish teenagers aged 15 and 16 were arrested by Israeli police this week on suspicion that they scrawled anti-Christian graffiti on the Dormition Abbey on Jerusalem’s Mount Zion earlier this week.

WJC mourns passing of its Honorary Vice President George Weidenfeld, 96

„There are very few people in today’s world who have the courage and the temerity to speak out when they see injustice. George was one of them,” said Ronald Lauder about the British publisher who died on Tuesday.

Suzanne D. Rotland: Isi Leiber, a roving ambassador / How the WJC tried to improve Israeli relations with India – Jerusalem Post

21 Jan 2016 During the 1980s, Isi Leibler of the World Jewish Congress tried to improve relations between India and Israel, and met with Indian PM Indira Ghandi. READ MORE »