Global News Archives

May 2007

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President of the European Parliament addresses Knesset	Jewish man attacked for wearing kippah on train in Australia	UK academics union wants members to consider Israel boycott

30

Shimon Peres announces his candidacy for Israeli presidency	Fake passport used by Eichmann put on dispaly in Argentina	South African Jewish union to allow same-sex marriages

29

Canadian Jews welcome revocation of Nazis’ citizenship	Pope restores former status of Vatican inter-religious body	Olmert endorses Shimon Peres as candidate for Israeli presidency

25

Jews in Belarus unhappy about visit by Iranian Predisent	Geneva's main synagogue building destroyed by suspicious fire	Protests at conversion of a German church into a synagogue

22

Spanish clothing giant apologizes to ultra-orthodox Jews	Israel’s UN envoy criticizes silence in Muslim world over Islamist terror	Statue in memory of Anne Frank vandalized in Boise, Idaho

21

Jewish leaders hold meeting with British Foreign Secretary	Holocaust denier David Irving expelled from Warsaw book fair	Australian Prime Minister honored by Jewish organizations

18

First synagogue since World War II opened in Estonian capital	Efforts being made to revive former Jewish district in Krakow	Ahmadinejad again declares that Iran is a nuclear power

16

Canadian Jewish Congress supports entry ban for US black leader	Leader of Norwegian neo-Nazi organization acquitted by appeals court	Copies of records of Bad Arolsen Nazi archive to be available soon

15

Murder of Jewish man in St. Petersburg concerns Jewish community	Jewish group calls for stop to the canonization of Pope Pius XII	Alleged arsonists of Jewish property in Montreal denied bail

14

Richard Prasquier elected as new leader of French Jews	Survivor calls for entrance fee for Dachau camp visits	Iran and US agree to engage in direct talks over Iraq

11

Alleged attacker of Elie Wiesel to face trial in California	United Kingdom Jews thank outgoing Prime Minister Tony Blair	Catholic Church Commission proposes beatification of Pius XII

10

Documents from Nazi-era archive to be sent to Washington	Former Dutch state airline reportedly helped Nazis escape	Belgian prime minister reiterates apology to Jews

09

Belgian Jewish leader Julien Klener made a Baron	South African minister defends Hamas invitation	Hamas paper says extermination of Jews ‘is God’s will’

07

French Jews welcome Sarkozy’s election as President	Synagogue in Russia attacked by arsonists	Azerbaijan Jews want memorial for murdered Mountain Jews

03

Dutch Jewish tombstone inscriptions to be available online	Israeli Prime Minister under pressure over war in Lebanon	British journalists protest against boycott of Israeli goods