Global News Archives

SEPTEMBER 2004


September 29

Two Italians denied payments from German slave labor compensation fund	Neo-Nazi party leader facing criminal charges	Expelled politician to talk about "patriotism" again

US Presbyterians and Jews fail to settle argument over divestment	German woman convicted over 1991 attack on coach in Hungary	American neo-Nazis to spread its message via cheap CDs

Attacker of Jewish man jailed in Argentina	Lithuanian president honors saviors of Jews in World War II

September 28

Sarajevo's Old Synagogue re-consecrated as place of worship	Madonna unwanted in Egypt	Hate mail sent to Muslims in New Zealand

US court rejects suit against Belzec memorial	American Jews meet Iraqi leader	Project in Lithuania to mark Holocaust victims' graves completed

September 27

More movies about Nazi era to hit German cinemas soon	US Neo-Nazis outnumbered at gathering by protesters and police	Poll in America shows "religious observance" not key to Jewish identity

Forum in Ukraine marks revival of Jewish communal life; victims of massacre honored

September 24

Woman damages artifact in Flick exhibition	Israel FM calls for debate about anti-Semitism in UN General Assembly	Israel's ambassador urges Oslo authorities to remove controversial sculpture

Jewish leaders criticize Schröder for attending Flick Collection opening	France pledges to wage battle against anti-Semitism	Czech Holocaust memorial again vandalized

Former Nazi holiday resort partly auctioned off

September 23

Germany to sponsor UN resolution condemning anti-Semitism	Maryland governor grants funds to Jewish schools	New Yorker charged with inciting teenagers to commit hate crimes

Power struggle in Lithuanian Jewish community escalates	Wal-Mart removes anti-Semitic publication from its online catalogue	No sign of perpetrators of Wellington cemetery desecrations

September 22

Schröder opens controversial art exhibition in Berlin	US authorities deny entry to former singer Cat Stevens; divert his plane	Prominent Americans push Powell to support to anti-Semitism bill

Frenchman Lucien Garrigou, 92, honored by Yad Vashem for saving Jews in World War II	Shoah documentary distributed to all French schools

September 21

Movie on Hitler's final days attracts large German audience	Authorities ban Islamist conference in Berlin	Presidential challenger in Ukraine refuses to condemn anti-Semitic article

Another tombstone desecration in New Zealand	Torah scrolls dedicated in Brussels	Irving to challenge ban on entry to New Zealand

September 20

Controversy over "anti-Jewish remarks" by Israeli minister	Psychology professor convicted of fabricating hate crime	Council of Europe group details measures to combat anti-Semitism

Berlin Jewish Community to cancel next year's film festival for lack of funds

September 18

Organizer of Berlin gathering of Islamists deported by German authorities	Madonna issues peace call at Kabbalist conference in Israel	Right-wing extremists do well in regional relections in eastern Germany

September 15

Senior Argentine judge resigns	US Congressmen criticize EU funding for Hezbollah and Hamas "charities"	40 per cent of Israeli Jews plan to visit synagogue on holidays

Security high in France as Jewish holiday season begins	Raid on suspected Islamist terrorists in Barcelona	Former synagogue in Vladivostok returned to Jewish community

German Jewish leader outraged over Rosh Hashanah soccer fixture in Tel Aviv	Arafat sends New Year message to Israeli president

September 14

Iranian football player with Bayern Munich not to travel to match in Israel	Police in Budapest arrest female fascist leader	Al-Qaeda men on trial in Istanbul over bombings

Catholic Church calls for special status for religious communities in Jerusalem	OSCE Conference in Brussels discusses surge of racism in Europe	"Special office" set up to investigate 1994 AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires

Prominent Germans symbolically renounce property claims in Poland	New Zealand's Deputy PM speaks out against Irving	Lists with names of Shoah victims sent to Yad Vashem

September 13

German Chancellor warns of danger of far-right in upcoming elections	Oslo synagogue renovated and re-opened	Irving compares U.S. actions in Iraq to Nazi strategies during World War II

America's first Jewish immigrants are celebrated 350 years after their arrival	Pakistan's Founding Father apparently did not like Jews	German movie on Hitler's final days receives standing ovation at premiere

Knesset speaker presents highest non-Jewish decorations to Slovakians

September 10

Munich trial on 1945 Nazi massacre under way	Judge overturns jury verdict which cleared NY police officers over shooting of Jew	Animal rights group again likens slaughtering of animals to Nazi Holocaust

Exhibition on Jewish life in America opened in Library of Congress	Preparations for Madonna visit to Israel	Jewish Autonomous Region in Russia celebrates its 70th birthday

September 09

City of Riga to take over management of Jewish ghetto memorial	Christians and Jews join to support the opening of new mosque in Barcelona	Demonstration in Buenos Aires over AMIA bombing acquittals

"Aryan Nations" supremacist leader dies at the age of 86	Police in raid on German neo-Nazi party	JDC seeks donations to help traumatized Beslan victims

Iran honors Olympic athlete for refusing fight with Israeli	Austria to pay an additional $ 1,000 to Nazi victims

September 08

English soccer squad pays visit to Auschwitz	Russia's Foreign Minister honors Shoah victims at Yad Vashem	Appeal process begins over al-Qaida bomb plot against Israeli embassy in Australia

Protest march in Buenos Aires today over AMIA verdict	Historic meeting between representatives of French Jews and Muslims tomorrow	Former Nazi commander sitting trial in Munich over mass murder

Jewish cemetery desecrated in Germany	Atta's father blames "Jewish conspiracy" for 11 September attacks

September 07

Swastikas daubed on synagogue in US city of Reno	Indians learn about the existence of "Jews" in Guntur area	Flick not to attend ceremony in Berlin synagogue

Supporter of racist movement in Australia escapes jail sentence	Racially-motivated incidents on the rise in Ireland	Jewish Festival in Baltimore to be held today

Belarus government refuses visa for Jewish group

September 06

Airline "El Al" asks religious Jews to pray seated	Al Pacino as Shakespeare's Jew Shylock in "Merchant of Venice" film	Chirac decorates Spielberg with French Legion of Honor

Trial in Turkey on charges of anti-Semitism	Philippine newspaper calls president Arroyo's behavior "chutzpah"	Singer attacks Argentina over failure to investigate AMIA attack

Heated debates in Estonia after removal of monument	Torah scroll dedicated at ceremony in Edinburgh	"European Day of Jewish Culture" a success

Catholic priest who died in Nazi concentration camp on his way to sainthood

September 03

AMIA bombing: Argentine court acquits suspects	Daughter of Polish Auschwitz survivor sues German government for compensation	Criticism of Canada PM's choice for post of UNESCO ambassador

Estonian war fighter monument removed under protests	Croatia buys land in Austria to dedicated to WW II massacre	Remains of Warsaw Ghetto victims buried; Polish families honored

September 02

European Parliament committee holds hearing on racism and anti-Semitism	Terrorist kidnappers of journalists demand reversal of French headscarf ban	Belgian prime minister in talks with education ministers over anti-Semitism

Tombstone approved for Berlin grave of one of Hitler's minister	Battle on over "Jewish vote" that could decide presidential election	US Nazi Party announces rally for Yom Kippur

Banned Islam scholar to be linked up to university via video conferencing?	New public holiday in France for non-Catholics?

September 01

Gaddafi wants to compensate former Jewish residents in Libya	City of Paris launches campaign against racism and anti-Semitism	"Passion" DVD sells 2.4 million copies in first hours of US release

Flick defends his controversial art exhibition in Berlin	German government supports postponing soccer game because of Rosh Hashanah	Grants awarded to Jewish community projects in California

Seminar in Harbin, China, on Jewish culture	Retrial begins in Germany over stabbing of man by former skinhead	Rabbis and students attacked in Ukrainian city of Odessa

Georgia University upholds decision to sack cheerleaders' coach