The World Jewish Restitution Organization, of which the World Jewish Congress is a founding member, has conducted a briefing for members of the European Parliament in Brussels on the issue of Holocaust-era assets that have not been repaid. read more »
Ireland’s Minister for Justice, Alan Shatter, has apologized for the way the 10,000 Irishmen who fought Hitler were treated after World War II. The minister also said Ireland’s stance of “neutrality” during the war was morally bankrupt. read more »
Universal human rights are trampled upon in dictatorships like Syria, but while citizens of these countries are in dire need of the international community’s protection, the international human rights discourse has been dominated by Israel’s policies in the West Bank and Gaza and the war against international terrorism. read more »
In Berlin, lawmakers on Friday commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day with speeches from the speaker of the Bundestag and Warsaw Ghetto survivor Marcel Reich-Ranicki, 91. read more »
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said that US President Barack Obama "threw Israel under the bus" by designating the pre-1967 borders as a starting point for peace talks, while Newt Gingrich reiterated his controversial remark that the Palestinians are an "invented" people. read more »
'Jewish Voice from Germany', published by a former Israeli, marks the renaissance of long-dormant culture. read more »
It has taken decades for the international community to deal with the Holocaust in a really serious way. Today, Holocaust commemorations have become an integral part of political culture, at least in Western democracies, writes the head of the German Jewish community. read more »
Israeli-Palestinian talks aimed at reviving peace negotiations ended in Jordan Wednesday without achieving any progress and President Mahmoud Abbas plans to consult fellow Arabs on his next move, Palestinian officials said. read more »
A survey carried out two days before Holocaust Memorial Day shows more than a fifth of young Germans do not know the name of Auschwitz or what happened there. read more »
International Holocaust Remembrance Day has been marked in the European Parliament at a ceremony organized by the European Jewish Congress and addressed by senior European and Israeli officials. read more »
Israeli Jews are becoming more religious, according to a study published Thursday by the Israel Democracy Institute. read more »
The Russian Jewish Congress announced that it had sent a letter of protest to regional officials over the decision to replace a memorial plaque to Jews killed in the Holocaust with one that mentions only “peaceful citizens of Rostov-on-Don and Soviet prisoners of war.” read more »
The Monthly Policy Talk of the Israel Council on Foreign Relations-EU Young Diplomats Forum (an initiative co-sponsored by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and supported by the Delegation of the EU to Israel, several European embassies, and the Israeli MFA) was hosted by the Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa in its newly restored Beit Zeirim community center. read more »
The United States is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon and will take no options off the table to achieve that goal, President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union address on Tuesday. read more »
Three haredi Orthodox men were arrested for assaulting a woman in Beit Shemesh. read more »
Sweden has become “a center of anti-Semitism,” the president of the European Jewish Congress, Moshe Kantor, said ahead of a ceremony at the European Parliament in Brussels to commemorate the Holocaust. read more »
A man who the authorities said was driven by hatred of Jews was charged Tuesday with firebombing two Bergen County synagogues. read more »
The president of the World Jewish Congress expressed outrage at the conviction of Italian journalist and politician Peppino Caldarola who had written an article criticizing a cartoon that depicts fellow parliamentarian Fiamma Nirenstein, who is Jewish, with a hooked nose, the symbol of fascist Italy, and the Star of David. read more »
The European Union has stepped up pressure on Iran by imposing a ban on oil imports from the Islamic republic until it complies its international demands over its nuclear program. The 27 EU member countries also agreed to freeze assets in an effort to starve the nuclear program of funding. read more »
Convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk has asked Germany to provide funds for his lawsuit against the online edition of the German tabloid newspaper 'Bild'. read more »
