Global News Archives


NOVEMBER 2005


30 November

Slovakia starts payment to Jewish victims of WWII regime	Demjanjuk back in US court to fight deportation to Ukraine	Debate in Croatia over restitution of properties to Austrians

29 November

Member of WWII Slovak pro-Nazi group on trial in Germany	Conference of European Rabbis urges members to boycott Zagreb	Chabad emissaries gather for annual conference in New York

28 November

Deal paves the way for international acceptance of Magen David Adom	Israeli support for examination of mass grave in Germany	Melbourne's Jews offers help to Muslims over security concerns

Moscow bans march against anti-Semitism and right-wing extremism	One of Russia's two chief rabbis met with leaders of nationalist parties	Left-wing Italian politicians form pro-Israel group

25 November

Austrian Jews cautious after US court throws out class action suit	Argentine groups condemn anti-Semitic actions of nationalist group	DVD on the Shoah distributed to Paris students

23 November

Russian authorities continue to refuse visa for chief rabbi Goldschmidt	Revamped and expanded Jewish museum opens in Rome	Israeli chief rabbi says killing of Armenians in 1915 was genocide

Katsav talks about anti-Semitism, German-Israel relations with Berlin mayor	Detained historian Irving officially charged by Austrian prosecutors with Holocaust denial	New Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem sworn in

22 November

Anniversary of first Nuremberg trial against Nazi leaders marked	Outgoing German Interior minister honored with Leo Baeck award	Berlin Holocaust Memorial defaced by vandals

Court finds National Front politicians guilty of incitement against Muslims	US appeals court rejects Wertheim case against KarstadtQuelle	German Zentralrat admits Liberal Jewish communities for the first time

Alleged Australian war criminal claims to be 'too frail' to be extradited	Catholic traditionalist calls on Pope Benedict XVI to convert Jews	Hitler portrait donated to Fort Wayne war museum

21 November

Mahmoud Abbas holds talks with European Jewish Congress president	Israel protests against Palestinian propaganda event at Dublin college	Another judge withdrawn from AMIA bombing investigation

18 November

Revisionist David Irving arrested in Austria for Holocaust denial	Mayor of London attacks Board of Deputies of British Jews over Israel	St. Petersburg to compensate Jewish community for cemetery vandalism

US State Department keeps an eye on Russian anti-Semitism	New Chancellor assures Israel of German support in dispute with Iran	Philadelphia Museum of American Jewish History to build new facilities

17 November

Israeli President invites Pope Benedict XVI to visit the Holy Land	Graves of Brecht, Mann and Becher desecrated in Berlin	Zündel trial postponed following court's rejection of defense attorney

11 November

US Supreme Court clears deportation of German Holocaust denier	Hezbollah denies responsibility for AMIA bombing	Jewish World War II refugees return to Shanghai to remember safe haven

10 November

Prosecutor says Hezbollah behind AMIA bombing	Berlin's Jews remember 1938 "Kristallnacht"	Protests in New York against Iranian president

09 November

Remains from suspected Jewish mass grave in Germany to be reburied	Shoah denier Zündel goes on trial in Germany	Moshe Kantor decorated by Poland's president

07 November

Ireland records increase in racist and anti-Semitic acts	Jewish activist who plotted to bomb LA mosque murdered in prison	Iran dropped from Annan's Middle East tour

04 November

Neo-Nazis banned from holding rally in central Munich on 9 November	Parisians stage rally against Iran's president	Probe launched into anti-Semitic literature at Frankfurt Book Fair

Congressmen ask Bush to press Argentina over AMIA bombing	Sydney Jews argue over timing of fundraising event featuring Al Gore	Jewish Community of Berlin bitterly divided as its chairman resigns

03 November

Row over proselytizing at US Air Force academy widens	Swedish police investigate former KKK leader over anti-Semitic remarks	Moroccan king invited to make state visit to Israel

02 November

Sharon attacks Italian government over official contacts with Hezbollah	Quebec attorney regrets anti-Semitic remarks against Supreme Court	Website by rabbis advises on good and bad names for Jewish children