Israeli Shoah survivors to get more welfare payments

 Israeli Shoah survivors to get more welfare payments

 

News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 03 May 2016

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Hamas official reportedly welcomes UK Labour leader’s support – Times of Israel

03 May 2016 Conservative website reports Taher A-Nunu praises Jeremy Corbyn’s refusal to disavow terror group, but second website says he told them he never made any such comments.  READ MORE »

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Three Israeli soldiers hurt in suspected West Bank car-ramming attack – Times of Israel

03 May 2016 A spokesperson for Magen David Adom said that one of the wounded Israelis was seriously injured.  READ MORE »

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German Jews divided over fears of 1 million Muslim newcomers – Associated Press

03 May 2016 When the leader of Germany’s Jews spoke out against the flow of Muslim migrants to Europe, a rabbinical student denounced his views as racist – and ignited a debate over whether Jews are right to fear unprecedented levels of immigration from Muslim lands traditionally hostile to Israel.  READ MORE »

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Lithuanian Holocaust monument vandalized – JTA

03 May 2016 Unidentified persons vandalized a Holocaust monument in Vilkaviskis on the anniversary of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s birthday.  READ MORE »

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Israeli Shoah survivors to get more welfare payments

03 May 2016 The Israeli government has announced a significant increase in financial support provided to Holocaust survivors and other elderly welfare recipients by a half-billion shekels.   READ MORE »

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Jewish leader asks Michelin to taste Israeli cuisine – Associated Press

03 May 2016 In a letter to the Michelin Guide, World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder said it was a „concerning omission” that Michelin does not have a guide to Israel’s „exceptional cuisine.”  READ MORE »

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Two brothers were separated by the Holocaust. After 77 years, their families reunited – Washington Post

03 May 2016 More than 70 years had passed since Katz’s grandfather, Abram Belz, first tried to find his younger brother, Chaim. The brothers died without seeing each other again, but now their families have been joyfully reunited.  READ MORE »

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Springsteen guitarist slams ‘obnoxious idiots’ who back BDS – Times of Israel

03 May 2016 Steven Van Zandt gets into Twitter row over rumored performance in Israel, telling a critic: „Go get educated.”  READ MORE »

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The lessons of Nuremberg: Stand up to hate, and remember hate’s victims – JTA

02 May 2016 In op-ed, Irwin Cotler writes: „We will speak up – and act – against racism, against hate, against anti-Semitism, against mass atrocity, against injustice, and against the crime of crimes whose name we should shudder to mention: genocide.”  READ MORE »