Global News Archives

NOVEMBER 2004


November 30

US court declines to hear discrimination case of Jewish Orthodox army member	French prosecutors press case against National Front deputy leader	Schools in New Jersey district not allowed to play "religious instrumentals" any more

Belgian historians discuss role of association during Nazi occupation	Swiss animal rights activist jailed for offending Jewish Shoah victims

November 29

Spiegel criticizes German parties for ignoring threat from extreme right-wing groups	Conference of Jewish youth organizations in Strasbourg	Social worker in Scotland loses race discrimination case against her boss

Protests over sentence for Russian newspaper editor	Holocaust survivor and campaigner Fred Diament dies aged 81	Comic strips against neo-Nazis

November 26

Book says Oskar Schindler was little involvement in compiling lists	Holocaust allies meet again after 60 years	Columbia University president to take action over anti-Israel statements by professors

Al-Manar gives pledge to respect French laws

November 25

Briton who saved Jews remembered	Neo-Nazi stands trial for planning bomb attack on Munich Jewish center	Russian editor receives one-year jail sentence for anti-Semitic publications

Sarah Jessica Parker's body covered up in Israel	Australian Muslim cleric not part of inter-faith delegation	Gravestone thefts from Jewish cemetery in Czech Republic

November 24

CRIF presses president Chirac over Hezbollah TV	Youth group raises money for Argentine children	Post-war Mengele letters surface in Brazil

Most hate crimes in the USA are anti-Jewish	Yad Vashem Holocaust database draws in hundreds of thousands of visitors

November 23

UN General Assembly committee unanimously condemns anti-Semitism	Tearful Joschka Fischer addresses São Paolo Jewish community	United Jewish Communities actively opposes US Presbyterians' divestment

Yad Vashem gives public access to information about three million Shoah victims	French license for Hezbollah-linked TV station sparks criticism

November 22

Singer proposes common action over Holocaust fund monies	Inter-faith forum held in Paris	Jewish publications in former Soviet Union honored

Jewish Community in protest at planned May 2005 neo-Nazi rally in Berlin	French village honored for saving Jews from deportation to death camps	Canadian academic under fire for attack on "pro-Israel" colleagues

November 19

Orthodox Jew shot dead in Antwerp	France, Israel close to reaching deal over art	Supreme Court in US denies hearing to alleged Nazi war criminal

OSCE anti-Semitism representative to be announced	Courageous Catholic bishop to be beatified for speaking out against Hitler regime

November 18

Swastikas sprayed on gravestones in Jewish cemetery in England	British MP denies perceived 'anti-Jewish' accusation	Israeli foreign minister asks Spain to remove anti-Sharon billboards

Belgian Jewish club complains over anti-Semitism during soccer match

November 17

Probe in France into Nazi salute on site of former concentration camp	Slutsker elected president of Russian Jewish Congress	Wiesenthal Center seeks prosecution of alleged Nazi war criminal

Spanish town officials in stark campaign against Israeli prime minister

November 16

Jewish graveyard in Buenos Aires vandalized twice in two days	Report on Holocaust-era Romania released by panel	Organization offering money to matchmakers to get Orthodox Jews married

Dutch government to restrict freedom of speech after van Gogh murder	Chicago student paper published anti-Semitic cartoon

November 15

Presbyterian Church in US threatened over Israel divestment policy	Historian criticizes Harvard University's role during Nazi era	Fischer laments destruction of European Jewry by Nazis

Berlin: large neo-Nazi rally; Jewish soldiers honored

November 10

US Jewish Reform movement to help Sudanese refugees	Incident near French synagogue	Exhibit on French deportees to be opened at Auschwitz site in January

Belgian court outlaws right-wing Vlaams Blok	Money donated for security of Jewish sites in Turkey	Jewish leader calls for vigilance as 9 November is commemorated in Germany

November 09

Filmmaker’s killing prompts anti-Muslim violence	UK's Jewish National Fund accused by Scottish Palestinian supporters	German federal police president warns of "increase in anti-Semitic tendencies"

US city council to debate divestment from Israel	French court jails attacker of Jewish war memorial

November 08

Leader of Prague Jewish Community ousted	Jews boycott French anti-racism rally	Historic Jewish manuscripts fetch high bids at auction

European Jewish Congress executive meeting in Berlin	B'nai Brith launches complaint against Montreal university	Berlin pupils in clean-up effort on Jewish cemetery

November 05

Windows of English synagogue smashed for the second time this year	France urged to ban powerful Muslim group	Court says 'Amen' posters not defamatory

French, Israeli, Polish, Russian presidents to attend ceremony at former Auschwitz site	Dutch EU presidency wants Hezbollah listed as terrorist group

November 04

American Jewish groups congratulate Bush	Anti-hate crime bill discussed in Utah after vandals strike on Jewish home	Holocaust survivors might receive less than expected from Bank Leumi

Christian cemetery desecrated in France	Hitler image removed from Brazilian Carnival parade	New development in large German lawsuit on Jewish property restitution

November 03

American Jews favor Kerry, but Bush wins popular vote and Florida	Protests outside Arafat's Paris hospital	Report paves way for investigation into handling of AMIA case

Some new Jewish congressmen elected, others defeated	Anti-Semitic joke by salesman triggers meeting for entire company staff

November 02

Latin American Jewish Congress condemns terror, anti-Semitism and poverty	CNN presenter criticized for comments on terrorism	Outrage at Stanford University over Israel-critical comments

Protests in France after cemetery desecrations; attack on Paris synagogue	Göring's secret maps published by historian	Jewish officials denounce Bush "endorsement"

Germany's extreme right-wing parties NPD and DVU want to join forces for 2006 election	Canadian PM Paul Martin condemns anti-Semitism