Global News Archives

JANUARY 2006


January 31

Clinton calls Danish newspaper cartoons "appalling"	Steven Spielberg defends 'Munich' movie against Jewish critics	Central American Jewish leaders met in Mexico

January 30

Tony Blair invited to attend Iranian conference on Holocaust	Merkel says Hamas must recognize Israel's right to exist.	Former Mussolini residence to become Holocaust museum

Ukraine's president presents award to controversial publisher	Belarus: Kosher bakery stirs anti-Semitic newspaper articles	Seven Slovakians named 'Righteous Gentiles' for saving Jews

January 27

International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Annan says Shoah deniers are bigots	Iran blocks access to BBC's Persian news website	Former German president Johannes Rau dead

Bush: No deals with Hamas if they continue attacks on Israel	Less anti-Semitic incidents in Europe in 2005 than the year before	Passport withdrawn from German neo-Nazi Horst Mahler

January 26

Hamas vows to pursue destruction of Israel after election victory	Merkel to visit Israel next week	Ukraine: Government officials attack anti-Semitic academy

January 25

Joint Distribution Committee honored for relief efforts in Indonesia	Ireland's government continues to allow religious circumcisions	Spain considers making Holocaust education part of national curriculum

January 24

Jewish world mourns passing of Andrea Bronfman	German president wants better Holocaust education in schools	Polish parliamentarian calls for destruction of Poznan synagogue

January 23

Franco appointed new papal envoy to Israel	Israel keeps options open regarding defense vis-à-vis Iranian nuclear threat	Yad Vashem launches new online resource

January 20

Al-Masri denies racism and having called for the murder of Jews	Memoirs of Shoah survivors to be exhibited at the United Nations	"Osama" jibes against Jewish tennis player at Australian Open

January 19

Peres calls Iran "greatest danger in our time"	Sharon cartoon in Australian newspaper criticized	Former Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg remembered

January 18

Czech man given suspended jail sentence for neo-Nazi activities	Austrian court rules in favor of restitution of Klimt paintings	Russia grants Rabbi Goldschmidt new one year visa

January 17

Pope denounces anti-Semitism at meeting with Rome's chief rabbi	Austrian Holocaust fund fully endowed	Proposed Latvian law would return Jewish property

Authorities in France stop soup distribution by far-right group	Famous Jewish delicatessen shop in Paris to close	Germany city of Pforzheim gets a new synagogue

Another violent attack inside a Russian synagogue	Hugo Chávez says he is not an anti-Semite	Jewish Museum in Prague celebrates Year of Jewish Culture

January 16

Iran plans to host conference on the Holocaust	Tehran threatens to end nuclear inspections; IAEA considers use of force	Bolton confronts Annan over pro-Palestinian UN event

January 12

Congressman Gary L. Ackerman elected head of ICJP	Knife attack in Moscow synagogue leaves nine people injured	Jews in Warsaw receive compensation payment for synagogue renovation

January 10

Jewish parliamentarians visit Sharon's hospital	Trial of British Muslim cleric accused of spreading hate begins	Serbian neo-Nazis who attacked university seminar to be charged

January 09

Peres and Netanyahu address ICJP meeting in Jerusalem	Elie Wiesel calls Sharon a father of the Jewish people	Synagogue in Paris suburb vandalized by 21-year-old

January 06

Prayers around the world for recovery of Sharon	Outrage over Norwegian finance minister's support of boycott of Israeli products	Extremist party allowed to compete in Ukrainian parliamentary election

January 05

Ahmadinejad: My comments are part of a wider strategy	Sharon in critical condition after suffering massive brain hemorrhage	Israeli Holocaust fund claims to be short on money

January 04

Iran's president continues attacks against Israel by equating Zionism and Fascism	Lyon court sends National Front politician to jail for Holocaust denial	US Holocaust Museum launches "pod casts"

January 03

British chief rabbi warns of "tsunami of anti-Semitism"	Russian financier offers large donation to Jewish Agency	Venezuela's leader Chavez in anti-Semitic outburst

January 02

Muslim leader in Germany condemns Holocaust denial	Offensive advertisement for Auschwitz tour criticized	Demjanjuk soon to be expelled again from USA