Global News Archives

MARCH 2005


March 31

Germany's Joschka Fischer under fire over obituaries	Reform rabbis gather in Houston	Three Serbs sentenced to short jail terms for anti-Semitic posters

Israel now recognizes non-Orthodox conversions to Judaism	Soldiers in Uruguay part of neo-Nazi network	Kyrgyzstan's Jews fearful after political turmoil

Ben-Gurion grave desecrated with Nazi graffiti	Putin warns of return of Nazism

March 30

TV show host calls mayor of Colorado town "Big Jew"	Controversy in Australia about movie on Hitler's last days	Birthright Israel Foundation names Jay Golan as new CEO

Serbian president announces initiative against anti-Semitism	Ashes of Nazi victims buried at Sachsenhausen camp site	Jewish Iraqi meets with US president Bush

March 29

WJC puts spotlight on Argentina	Russian Chabad leader in blistering attack on Reform Judaism	Cardinal's comparison of Nazi eugenics with abortion angers British Jews

Hillel to honor Edgar M. Bronfman at gala in New York	Turkish government: increase in Hitler book sales no sign of racism	Finland to conduct research into deportation of Jewish refugees during World War II

Political groups behind anti-Semitic incidents, says Serbia's Jewish leader	One in six Berlin citizens believes that Jews are too powerful: poll	Pre-war property of Jews in Poland worth 30 billion dollars today, says report

Petition in Russia to ban all Jewish organizations	Hitler knew in detail about extermination of Jews, says Russian book of 1949

March 24

Californian judge allegedly "excluded Jews and black women" from murder trials	Blair does not want religious issues to become center-stage in British politics	Stark rise in violent attacks against minorities in Madrid region

"Death angel" who killed fellow students at Minnesota high school admired Hitler	WJC leaders call upon UN commission to condemn anti-Semitism

March 23

Jewish politician's plan "have the whiff of the gas chamber about them", says opponent	Historian Herbert A. Strauss has died	Fundraising starts to renovate synagogue in Russian city of Rostov

Russian Jewish Federation protests skinhead book cover	Orthodox rabbi expelled by organization over sexual harassment claims

March 22

Suspect arrested in Lugano synagogue arson case	JDC survey maps Argentine Jewry	Investigation opened into harassment of Jews at University of California

Cyprus Green party leader likens Swiss hotel to concentration camp	Russian Jewish exile: "Putin surrounded by anti-Semites"	Iceland grants citizenship to Bobby Fischer

March 21

Stark rise in racist and anti-Semitic incidents in France	Kiev synagogue again vandalized	Lebanon pulls out of European Song Contest

Citizens of Würzburg unite in protest against neo-Nazi rally	Controversy in Jerusalem over sale of Greek Orthodox properties to Jewish investors	Argentinean ISP removes anti-Semitic web pages

Jewish officials in LA distance themselves from mayoral campaign

March 18

Ukrainian president meets with European Jewish Congress official	EU moves against Hezbollah-linked Al-Manar TV channel	Movie on 1942 Kiev "Death Match" being produced

Anti-Semitism in Belarus is thriving, says Jewish leader	US Jewish organizations welcome religious freedom bill	Russian Jewish group joins American Zionists

Jewish officials want property restitution in Poland	Swiss authorities pledge to fight anti-Semitism	Montreal university outraged at B'nai B'rith's claims

Europeans cleared of financially supporting Palestinian terrorists

March 17

"Mein Kampf" a bestseller in Turkey	One fifth of Israelis work on Shabbat	Swedish PM pledges to solve mystery of Wallenberg's disappearance in World War II

Rabbis scuffle in Sydney	Jews kept out of Californian juries in death penalty cases?	Report: "Passion" to blame for rise of anti-Semitic attacks in Canada

French high court criticizes academy director for prejudging Gollnisch

March 16

World's largest Shoah museum inaugurated at Yad Vashem	American art collector saves Jewish photographer's historic archive	Americans convinced they know about the Shoah

French humorist Dieudonné to be retried for offensive comments	Israel Museum returns painting looted by Nazis	Historian protests at American TV station's decision to broadcast David Irving speech

Jewish online news service Hagalil faces financial collapse	Anti-Semitism in Canada on the rise	Anti-Jewish incidents increasing in Ireland

March 15

Arson attacks on synagogue and Jewish-owned shop in Swiss city of Lugano	Alliance formed in France to shut down anti-Semitic website	Deadline extended for probe of post-war links between US administration and Nazis

British Jews welcome government decision to maintain kosher slaughter practices	Muslim professor in Canada not to be charged over controversial comments	Brothers see each other for the first time after going through horrors of the Holocaust

March 14

"Gold Train" case settlement reached	Revisionist pamphlets distributed in French city of Perpignan	Neo-Nazis march through German city of Dessau

Argentinean Jewish organization demands resignation of Catholic bishop	New Yad Vashem museum to be opened in Jerusalem	Anne Frank's first apartment in Amsterdam to accommodate refugee writers

March 11

Former Colonia Dignidad sect leader arrested	Anti-Semitism surveillance unit to be established in Lyon, France	Spiegel demands "political confrontation" with right-wing extremists

French satellite platform interrupts broadcast of Iranian TV channel	European Parliament wants Hezbollah's terrorist activities to be stopped	Germany Interior minister likened to Hitler by Turkish newspaper

March 10

Irish collections checked for possibly including artifacts stolen by Nazis	Berlin's interior minister bans two local neo-Nazi groups	Saudis contributed financially to controversial Middle East Institute of Columbia University

Neo-Nazi ringleader threatens attorney in court	Synagogue in Russia town vandalized	Jailed extremist denies involvement in murder of judge's husband and mother

March 09

Haider's Austrian Freedom Party in deep crisis	Defendants in Munich neo-Nazi trial admit bomb plot against Jewish community center	US court rules against American Jewish Congress

Victims of Nazis' medical experiments to receive second compensation	Snow swastika greets air passengers as they arrive in Berlin	Gibson releases edited version of "Passion" for re-run in Britain

March 08

Lithuanian president pushes prosecutor general to inquire anti-Semitic articles	Mediation between woman and Austrian government over return of stolen Klimt paintings	Orphan survivors of the Holocaust feature in exhibit

German court convicts neo-Nazi youths as terrorists	University of Colorado president quits over scandals	Violent incident as Prague Jews continue infighting

March 07

Lyon university ousts FN deputy leader Gollnisch as professor	Max Fisher dies, aged 96	Violent clash of students with faculty officials at Jewish college in Moscow

Compensation row: German court rules in favor of Wertheim family	German writer Hochhuth apologizes for Irving praise	Pro-Israel sentiment among US Jews on the decrease: poll

Pope thanks Jews and Muslims for prayers

March 04

European Commission willing to host second seminar on anti-Semitism in fall	Besnainou attacks American Jewish organizations	Many Jews returning to Russia

Livingstone blasts Sharon and his government as "war criminals"	Papon fined for wearing Legion of Honor medal removed from him in 1999	Serbia's Jewish leader warns of rising anti-Semitism

Mossad agent who captured Eichmann in Argentina died	Churchill defends comparison between 9/11 victims and Eichmann	Four men in attack on French humorist Dieudonné

Hungary issues international arrest warrant for Zentai

March 03

British high court grants Muslim girl right to wear Islamic dress in school	Row over Senator Byrd's comparison	Columbia University report into alleged intimidations delayed

Australian court rules grants Jewish family right to have immigration request re-examined	American Hezbollah fund-raiser pleads guilty	National Front succession: Le Pen disowns daughter Marine in favor of Gollnisch

Utah bill to "mark" immigrants likened to treatment of Jews under Nazis	Judge strips Nazi collaborator of US citizenship

March 02

Bush wants freedom for some organizations to recruit staff on faith-based criteria	Deported neo-Nazi Zundel arrested on arrival in Germany	Animal rights campaigners runs advertisement against slaughterhouse

Hillary Clinton backs UN resolution condemning anti-Semitism	Demjanjuk appears in court fighting extradition	American Jewish Congress partners with Jewish federation in former Soviet Union

March 01

At New York symposium, cardinals and rabbis pray for Pope's recovery	Saperstein chastises community leaders	Portman apologizes for kissing scene at Western Wall

Hungarian neo-Nazi leader sentenced to two years suspended	Row between German government and Gypsy leaders over Holocaust memorial