Global News Archives

DECEMBER 2004


December 22

Judge rules for in favor of Jewish community center over sacking of employee	Russian rabbi backs tighter German immigration law	French TV to be taken off airwaves in Beirut

Anti-Semitic graffiti in Ukraine a political provocation?	Yad Vashem condemns use of Yellow Stars in Gaza settler protests

December 21

Gold train case resolved in US with help of Israel Singer	AP news agency to review contract with controversial al-Manar TV station	Prague Jewish Community leader defies vote to oust him

Australian Jews lodge complaint against political party	Antwerp's Jews "prime target" of Islamist attacks, says public prosecutor

December 20

US government wants Demjanjuk deported	Orthodox rabbi Solomon Sharfman dies	Hungarian actress Katalin Karady posthumously honored by Yad Vashem

Radio Free Europe journalists follow Wiesel move and return Romanian honors	Rabbi condemns election of Israeli whistleblower as new Glasgow university rector	Link between Casablanca attacks and Madrid train bombs?

Catholic League president under fire for anti-Jewish outburst	Florida high school students arrested for painting swastika	New German law could slow down Jewish immigration from Russia

December 17

Elie Wiesel returns Romanian honor in protest	US government also to take action against al-Manar TV station	Architect says neo-Nazi rallies at Berlin Holocaust Memorial should be allowed

Imam to be expelled from Germany	Number anti-Semitism incidents unchanged in Russia	US Congresswoman circulates draft letter asking Bill O'Reilly to apologize

December 16

Ukrainian region honors Jewish victims	Former Nazi concentration camp guard to be deported from USA	French anti-racism group denounces "close links between National Front and neo-Nazis"

British far-right party leader arrested	Berlin Shoah memorial nears completion	Detained chess champion Bobby Fischer to move to Iceland?

December 15

German member of parliament threatened by Islamist Turkish newspaper	New York tightens kosher food regulations	American lawmakers push for resolution of "Gold Train" case

Brides in Israel spared compulsory marriage lessons	Australian Jews elect new leader

December 14

Singer calls for dialog with Muslims	Jewish groups in humanitarian effort in Sudan	Claims Conference wants 145 million euros in compensation for Wertheim store

French Council of State orders al-Manar removed from TV satellite	European Jewish group wants Turkey to become EU member

December 13

Jewish spokesman praises religious tolerance in Azerbaijan	Jews comemerate capture of Gibraltar	'The Passion of the Christ' movie still under attack

French Court to decide on Hezbollah controlled TV channel

December 10

Discussion in Austria about use of left-over compensation funds	French ambassador to Israel criticizes "anti-French neurosis"	Man admits he called for killing Jews

Anti-Defamation League offers hate crime reward	Bush lights Chanukah menorah, meets US rabbis	Argentine's Jewish "disappeared" honored

December 09

Turkish PM opens Christian, Jewish and Muslim temples	'Wall of names' to open in Paris remembering Shoah victims	Swiss Jewish student group off black list

Jewish lawyer alleges racial discrimination by office of British Deputy PM	Rabbis defend kosher slaughtering in the USA

December 08

Australian political party accused of racism	Firebombed school library reopens in Montreal	French Rabbi urges shutting down of al-Manar TV station

Annan opens UN seminar on Islamophobia

December 07

Vatican wants 'Christianophobia' ranked with anti-Semitism	Rabbi says the end of European Jewery in near	Local paper accused over controversial 'Merry Christmas' ad

Neo-Nazi goes on trial for trying to shoot French president	Canadian Jewish leader says survival is the issue for Jews

December 06

Anti-Semitic attacks increase in Australia	Christmas Tree and menorah both displayed in courthouse	University professor and authors settle defamation suit

French prime minister calls for Hezbollah TV channel to be shut	Quebec's Jewish leaders call for action

December 03

German opposition wants to have 3000 potentially violent Islamists expelled	President Bush to host Chanukah party	Employees sue New York Times for racial discrimination

Many Britons unaware of Auschwitz

December 02

Windows of Kiev synagogue smashed	US Jews denounce Presbyterian divestment plans	French government vows to crack down on TV channels "undermining public order"

"Crypto-Jews" in Brazil got a new rabbi	More anti-Semitic incidents in Berlin in 2004	Reform Jews and Conservative Jews in the USA to cooperate over leadership training

December 01

Al-Manar may lose its French TV license again	Jewish school in Venezuela raided by security forces	Berlin Jews honor longtime community member

Audit of Prague Jewish community's finances reveals poor management	Rembrandt drawing looted by Nazis voluntarily returned to rightful owner	Iranian TV screens anti-Israel drama partly in Hebrew

US animal rights campaigners in attack on kosher slaughterhouse	Bill Clinton to be honored by Spielberg's Shoah Foundation	Moroccan king and Peruvian chief rabbi in surprise encounter