WJC-North America Chair Sommer

2016. június 7 08:32

Greek parliamentarian calls Israel ‘eternal enemy of Greece and Orthodoxy’

 
Greek parliamentarian calls Israel ‘eternal enemy of Greece and Orthodoxy’
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Small blog christos pappas Greek parliamentarian calls Israel ‘eternal enemy of Greece and Orthodoxy’The Greek Jewish community strongly condemned anti-Semitic statements made by an extreme-right lawmaker, calling it “infuriating that this kind of statements can be heard in the Parliament of the Hellenic Republic.”
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World Jewish Congress praises New York governor’s leadership in signing anti-BDS order

WJC-North America Chair Sommer: „BDS is another form of anti-Semitism and undermines any chance for genuine and lasting peace”
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Ukraine says it arrested a right-wing extremist who planned 15 terror attacks in France

06 Jun 2016 A French national arrested on the Polish-Ukrainian border in possession of weapons reported planned to strike during the Euro2016 soccer championship in France, including against Jewish sites.  READ MORE »
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Jewish congressional hopeful decries haters: This ‘goes far beyond anti-Semitism’ – Jerusalem Post

06 Jun 2016 Erin Schrode, who hopes to be the youngest woman elected to the US Congress, was recently bombarded by a slew of hate mail from alleged neo-Nazis.  READ MORE »
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Google removes racist Chrome extension used by Neo-Nazis to target people with Jewish-sounding names – The Independent

06 Jun 2016 The app called itself a ‘conicidence detector’ – a reference to a right-wing conspiracy theory that Jews secretly control the media, banks and governments.  READ MORE »
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Younger stakeholders helping World Jewish Congress shape the future – eJewishPhilanthropy

06 Jun 2016 Training young diplomats is just one way the WJC has chosen to invest in their future.   READ MORE »
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Rescuing Warsaw’s overgrown Jewish graves – BBC News

06 Jun 2016 Nature has taken over some of Poland’s Jewish cemeteries. But a group of volunteers is trying to ensure those buried in them aren’t forgotten.  READ MORE »
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In remote Madagascar, a new community chooses to be Jewish – Jerusalem Post

06 Jun 2016 A new Jewish community was officially born in Madagascar last month when 121 men, women and children underwent Orthodox conversions on the remote Indian Ocean island nation.  READ MORE »