Global News Archives

APRIL 2005


April 29

Columbia University search committee includes anti-Israel professors	Fischer praises Bulgarians' support for Jews during World War II	Ukrainian rabbi attacked after Passover Seder

Police in Czech Republic criticized for allowing too many neo-Nazi gatherings	No memorial for pro-Nazi fighters in Estonia	National Front leader to be tried in September on charge of Holocaust denial

April 28

British boycott of Israeli universities might be overturned	Leaders in Austria condemn politician who questioned the Holocaust	Jewish graveyard in Germany desecrated

Old tombstones in Czech town return to Jewish cemetery	Anti-Semitism in an exclusive Zurich sailing club?

April 27

Hungary asks Australia for extradition of alleged killer of Jewish man in 1944	Man found guilty of committing arson attack on Oklahoma synagogue	Camp breakout remembered in Croatia

Raid in Spain on neo-Nazi group	France marks anniversary of liberation of Nazi camps	Dutch exhibition at Auschwitz camp re-opened

April 26

Row over pro-Nazi remarks by Austrian politician not subsiding	Democrats: Exclude signatories of anti-Semitic letter from international events	AIPAC sacks two officials allegedly involved affair

Flick gives 6.5 million dollars to German slave labor foundation	Controversial Israel correspondent of the BBC to receive Order of the British Empire

April 25

Jews criticize US Protestants for their anti-Israel stance	Website allows visitors to tour virtual Jewish resistance fighter's underground bunker	Synagogue in Australia desecrated

At inauguration mass, Pope sends warm regards to other faiths

April 22

New Pope invites Rome's chief rabbi to Sunday's inauguration	Anti-immigration election poster causes outrage among British Hindus	French state-owned rail company wins legal battle

ADL offers support for stamping out religious harassment at US Air Force school

April 21

Wall Street Journal: Arab Bank funneled money into terrorist groups	Anti-Jewish letter being circulated in Ukraine	Paris honors Jewish children murdered in Auschwitz and resistance fighters

Study says Jews were deprived of up to 320 billion dollars in the Holocaust	Kraft makes large donation to Columbia University for promotion of understanding

April 20

Singer: "New Pope Benedict XVI was the architect of Vatican's better relations with Jews"	Warsaw Ghetto uprising remembered	American Air Force school investigates religious harassment

New AMIA president wants 1994 Buenos Aires bombing solved	NZ prime minister in effort to improve relations with Jews, Israel

April 19

American appeals court reinstates proceedings against Vatican Bank by Shoah survivors	Native Canadian chief apologizes for anti-Jewish comments	Northern New Jersey religious communities in attempt to heal rift

Ed Koch new member of the Holocaust Memorial Council	Meir Lau elected chief rabbi of Tel Aviv	Brazilian church in the US wants ban of hallucinogenic tea lifted by Supreme Court

Jewish official in talks with French parliamentarians	Anti-Semitism rife at British student union?

April 18

New Holocaust memorial inaugurated in Budapest	Neo-Nazi rallies met with resistance in Germany	Chinese president visits veteran Jewish journalist

Denmark considers apology after study reveals that Jews were deported to Nazi Germany	Ceremonies mark 60th anniversary of concentration camp liberations	Londoners favor religious anti-discrimination laws

New York mayor blasts anti-Semitic statements by fellow politician	Canadian government increases funding for human rights museum

April 15

Neo-Nazi leader murdered in Canada	Rome soccer fans chant anti-Semi tic slogans	Square in Buenos Aires named after Rabbi Marshall Meyer

Hate mail sent to Jewish persons and institutions in Los Angeles	Terror plot against London Jews uncovered

April 14

Historians: Laborers forced to work for Prince of Liechtenstein during World War II	Speaker of parliament in Iran condemns anti-Semitic TV programs	Exhibit to focus on Bulgarian Sephardim

Austrian-born Holocaust survivor wins large compensation from Swiss fund	Hungarian who save thousands from Shoah dies	Movie on Hitler's last days finds a distributor in Israel

April 13

Conflict in Prague's Jewish community becoming increasingly bitter	Brandenburg bans two neo-Nazi groups	New Zealand's Jewish community expects apology from parliamentarian

Dutch leader criticizes country's collaboration with Nazi Germany	Fischer wants inquiry by historians into diplomatic service's Nazi past	Jewish leaders fight Caterpillar AGM resolution against Israel

April 12

German Wehrmacht officer honored for saving 1,000 Jews from extermination	New museum opens in time for 60th anniversary of the liberation of Mittelbau-Dora	Another Native chief in Canada attacks "Jewish-controlled media"

Former Waffen SS guard stripped of US citizenship	Nasty battle over parliamentary seat in East London	Joint committee agreed between Mormons and Jews over posthumous baptisms

April 08

Handshakes at Pope's funeral stir controversy	British Jewish politician pelted with eggs	Russian city gets new Jewish community center

New Zealand politician "sick and tired of hearing how many Jews died in the Holocaust"	Dziwisz: "Pope cured fatally ill Jewish American"	Survivors gather for 60th anniversary of Buchenwald liberation

Tanner nominated to head US Jewish umbrella group	Gypsy Holocaust survivors in Central and Eastern Europe in need of aid

April 07

Yahoo! wins appeal in France over Nazi paraphernalia	Austria welcomes former citizens who had to escape from Nazi persecution	Israel: Arab boy beats Jewish fellows in Zionism quiz

US Senate holds hearing regarding return of Jewish texts seized by Communist Russia	Al-Queda suspects acquitted of terrorism charges in Germany	Canadian aboriginal leader on trial for claiming Jews started World War II

April 06

Court convicts conspirators of foiled bomb attack on Munich synagogue	Columbia professors slam Israel and Zionism	Judge: Prosecutor fabricated testimony of Jews being excluded from death penalty juries

Less Jews in Israel by 2025 than today	Writer Saul Bellow dies at the age of 89	Indian "Bnei Mensahe" to make aliyah after being recognized as Jews

Committee report on police behavior toward Muslim community in Britain

April 05

Austria's Jörg Haider breaks away from his Freedom Party	Islamic court for Australia to handle Muslim divorces?	Grant for Jewish workers

Anti-Semitism in the USA on the rise	Native leader on trial in Canada for inciting hatred against Jews	Buenos Aires Jewish day school reopens with funding from Chabad Lubavitch

April 04

Jewish praise for achievements of Pope John Paul II	University fires professor over Nazi movement links	Broadcaster airs "short" version of Irving speech

Graves of Yitzhak and Leah Rabin desecrated	Protests in Munich against neo-Nazi rally	Thousands of prominent Russians have already signed anti-Semitic petition

April 01

No large-scale evidence that Columbia professors tried to intimidate Jewish students	US appeals court affirms ruling stripping Nazi guard of citizenship	Christian, Jewish and Muslim clerics unite to prevent Jerusalem gay parade

Mayors of Los Angeles and Miami condemn London colleague for anti-Jewish remarks	Madonna and Ritchie under fire for Purim dresses	Former athlete Milton Green has died

Conservative Judaism to review its stance on ordination of homosexuals	Greek Orthodox Patriarch in Jerusalem denies involvement in controversial land sale