News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 14 July 2016

14 Jul 2016 Suspects confess to torching, vandalizing cars in retaliation for Sarona Market attack in which 4 were killed.  READ MORE »

14 Jul 2016 The heads of Reform, Liberal and Masorti Judaism this week wrote to Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot about the promotion of Rabbi Colonel Eyal Karim, whose view of rape in wartime they said had “no place in modern society”.  READ MORE »

14 Jul 2016 Poland’s education minister Anna Zalewsk appeared to deny Polish responsibility for two massacres of Jews in the 1940s.  READ MORE »

14 Jul 2016 The ABC Federal University, in the Sao Paulo metro area, is seeking a teacher of “racial-ethnic relations” who must include in the curricula the subject “connections of whiteness and racist regimes: apartheid, Nazism, Zionism.” The job pays $2,500 per month.  READ MORE »

14 Jul 2016 In a statement released Wednesday, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies welcomed the amendments that it had worked on with the Lithuanian government. The majority of South African Jews are originally from Lithuania, according to the board.  READ MORE »

14 Jul 2016 The Museum of Modern Art in Tianjin serve as a step toward commemorating the Jewish men and women – war refugees and children born there – who once passed through Tianjin.  READ MORE »