Global News Archives

SEPTEMBER 2006


29 September

Kazakh president meets with Jewish leaders in New York	US senator's Jewish roots become an issue in election campaign	Shoah survivors reunited in Israel after six decades of separation

Argentine police officer fired for racist behavior	Denmark: Strong rise in anti-Semitic incidents reported	American court allows suit against British bank over Hamas funds

28 September

Anniversary of Babi Yar massacre commemorated in Kiev	First German Islam conference hailed as a success by all sides	Greek neo-Nazi leader imprisioned for 21 years

Armenian government minister in anti-Semitic outburst	Gordon Brown lauded for commitment to Shoah education	Jewish music festival in central London to mark 350th anniversary

27 September

Turkey grants more freedom to religious schools	US government sues village for not respecting religious freedoms	Anti-Semitic website of French extremist leader shut down

26 September

Pope meets with Muslim diplomats to quell anger	German government invites Muslim leaders to roundtable	Men charged with terrorism after Oslo synagogue shooting

Irish academics' boycott call doesn't upset Israelis	More Hitler paintings to be sold by English auction house	US Presbyterians held meeting with Ahmadinejad

25 September

US has no problem with Egyptian nuclear energy plans	World leaders to attend Babi Yar massacre commemorations	Assad: Syria willing to make peace with Israel

22 September

US deports 84-year-old woman for serving as Nazi camp guard	Hamas offers ten-year truce instead of recognition of Israel	Global Jewish communities celebrate the New Year 5767

21 September

Yale University creates center for anti-Semitism research	Jewish man attacked by thugs in Ukrainian city of Odessa	Senator calls on OSCE to continue anti-Semitism conferences

20 September

Ahmadinejad and Bush address UN General Assembly	Yad Vashem database reunites siblings after more than 60 years	Bronfman Youth Fellowships Israel appoints new president

19 September

Pope's remarks spark widespread anger in Muslim world	Neo-Nazis do even better than feared in German election	Israeli FM wants immediate sanctions against Iran

18 September

Six UK youths arrested for attack on Jewish girl	No injuries as shots fired at Norwegian synagogue	Moscow synagogue stabber given tougher sentence at retrial

14 September

German neo-Nazi party could gain seats in regional election	Pope criticizes notion of Holy War in Islam	Czech Jews lend paintings to German city

13 September

Summit of global religious leaders opens in Kazakhstan	German Jews defend controversial return of paintings	Senator Feingold asks Bush to drop the term 'Islamic fascism'

12 September

Al-Qaeda threatens attacks against Israel and the Gulf states	Poland and Israel agree to closer cooperation	New Holocaust research institute opens in Berlin

Nicolas Sarkozy meets with Jewish leaders in New York	40 countries to attend Babi Yar massacre commemoration	Jews in Sydney upset about anti-Israeli artworks

11 September

Iran might consider temporary halt of uranium enrichment	Iran's former president calls Shoah an absolute historical fact	Danish newspaper publishes Iranian Holocaust cartoons

08 September

Former Iranian president calls for dialogue between USA and Iran	UK parliamentarians demand action against anti-Semitism	Three Frenchmen jailed for vicious attack against Jewish teenager

Croatian Jewish leader protests against state interference	Reduction of immigration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel planned	Muslim cleric holds today's Jews responsible for death of Jesus

07 September

Orthodox Jew made to leave Air Canada plane for praying	French imam publicly acknowledges Shoah as fact	Israeli chief rabbis, Anglican leader agree to engage in talks

06 September

Canadian Jewish leaders worried after Montreal arson attack	First ordination of rabbis in Germany since the Shoah	Revisionist historian Irving loses Austrian appeal

05 September

Finnish Jews celebrate 100th anniversary of Helsinki synagogue	EU diplomat in last minute effort to overcome Iranian defiance	Molotov cocktail thrown into Montreal Jewish boys school

04 September

Annan fails to get assurances from Iran on nuclear program	Report says anti-Semitism "has become endemic" in UK	Unexploded bomb found outside Corsican synagogue

01 September

Shoah survivors invite Ahmadinejad to visit Auschwitz	Sanctions against Iran not to be considered before next week	Young Jewish girl assaulted on London bus

Italian provincial governor praises slogan above Auschwitz gate	Prime Minister decries 'myth' of Polish anti-Semitism	Donors pledge nearly US$1 billion for reconstruction of Lebanon