Global News Archives

MAY 2005


May 27

Protests against Austrian bank's purchase of a Belgrade real estate seized by Nazis	Jewish leaders meet with Ukraine's president	Two neo-Nazis arrested over alleged bomb plot

Survivor groups reject Bank Leumi's offer

May 26

Pope Benedict XVI in first official meeting with Jewish leaders since his election	Ken Livingstone defends himself against anti-Semitism charges	Austrian Holocaust fund to compensate Vienna Jewish community for WWII losses

France wants Hezbollah TV channel banned	Former home of Israel's late president Chaim Herzog in Ireland vandalized

May 25

British Museum's intention to return paintings stolen by Nazis could set legal precedent	Argentine judge pursues investigation into 1994 AMIA center bombing	Anti-Semitism on the rise in the Czech Republic

Nobel laureates plead for end to academics' boycott of Israel	Construction work on former Jewish cemetery in Kaliningrad halted

May 24

Old book looted by Nazis returns to Rome's Jewish community	British demonstrators demand boycott of Israel	Leumi agrees to pay 8 million dollars to Shoah survivors

Righteous Gentiles from France give testimony

May 23

British academics' boycott likely to be ended	Prague's Jews agree to hold elections in fall	Casablanca Jews remember 2003 suicide bombings

Sharon heckled by Jewish protestors in New York

May 20

Claims Conference: Germany to help more Holocaust survivors	Shalom visits Germany	Pope condemns "genocide of the Jews"

Argentinian ministry removes controversial plaque

May 19

Palestinian Authority removes web link to "Protocols of the Elders of Zion"	French Muslim and Jewish youth in violent clash	Amazon apologizes for selling second hand book with anti-Muslim slurs

Austrian government allows looted painting issue to go to panel	France bans neo-Nazi splinter group	Muslim world anti-American, anti-Jewish: report

US appeals court: rabbi may sue for defamatory comments	Bulgarian court looking into World War II property claim

May 18

Debate about Nazi concentration camp for Gypsies in Czech Republic	Islamist terrorism major threat to Germany	Senior Israeli military to visit death camps and Jewish sites in Poland

Australian "Big Brother" participant says sorry to Jews	British envoy wants Israel boycott by academics rescinded

May 17

Wal-Mart apologizes for book-burning ad	Row in Australia over anti-Semitic remarks on TV show	Bielski to become new head of Jewish Agency

Sharon praises German efforts against anti-Semitism	Jewish population in the world older that other groups

May 13

Spokesman of Spanish Nazi camp victims admits he was never imprisoned	Katsav address to German Bundestag will mark 40 years of diplomatic relations	Schindler’s factory will re-open for tourists

Former concentration camp guard stripped of US citizenship	Holocaust memorial to be built in Brussels

May 12

Ousted British politician complains about anti-Semitic intimidation	Hillary Clinton wants more money to go to Shoah survivors	Controversial Ukrainian war fighters may receive official recognition as veterans

Should Shoah victim's tooth be buried at Berlin's Holocaust Memorial?	Russian Orthodox patriarch confers honor to US rabbi

May 11

Memorial to Murdered Jews of Europe inaugurated in Berlin	Synagogue near Moscow destroyed by fire	Meridor resigns as head of the Jewish Agency

Jewish Cemetery in France desecrated	Joschka Fischer honored by Germany's Jewish community

May 10

Shoah Memorial to be dedicated in Berlin	Comedy on Jewish life in Germany receives ten nominations for film prize	Arab-Latin American summit expected to condemn Israel

Pope sends birthday message to former chief rabbi of Rome	Chirac decorates Auschwitz survivor

May 09

Köhler on remembering Germany's Nazi past: "No final line shall be drawn"	Austrian president condemns revisionist talk	German court sentences neo-Nazi ringleader to seven years in jail

Victory Day celebrated in Russia	Neo-Nazi march through prevented by police and counter-demonstrations	Brochure by Berlin tennis club sparks uproar

May 06

German court sentences neo-Nazi ringleader to seven years in jail

May 04

Survivors protest against Israeli bank over Holocaust assets	Elio Toaff celebrates 90th birthday	Tanner elected chairman for Conference of Major American Jewish Organizations

Judge approves preliminary settlement of Hungarian Gold Train case	French Catholic and Jewish leaders reinforce inter-faith dialogue	Eichmann's fingerprints handed over to Yad Vashem

May 03

Jewish news website launched in Argentina	Annan: UN is ally of Jews in struggle for human rights	Prosecutors demand eight years in jail for German neo-Nazi ringleader

Students in Canada expelled from school for creating website with Nazi symbols	126-year-old skull of Jewish man buried in Sweden	White supremacist of the civil rights era died

US territory in controversial 1.2 million dollar payment to rabbi

May 02

Meeting of Canadian aboriginal chief with Jewish leaders to allay tensions	Dachau camp liberation remembered	Munich bans neo-Nazi rally on central square

Alleged Nazi war criminal Demjanjuk asks judge to step aside	Jewish leaders to meet with UN secretary general Annan