Global News Archives

February 2008

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Israel upset by Costa Rican recognition of ‘Palestinian state’	Reward offered in Molotov attack on Jewish building	Sarkozy plan for Holocaust education dropped

Yad Vashem objects to investigation of Holocaust historian	Australian Shoah denier faces contempt of court charges	New Iran sanctions probable, but UN vote may be delayed

27

Iran ordered to pay damages for Israeli Embassy bomb	Muslim scholars in UK call for dialogue with Jews	US and Israeli Rabbinates agree on conversion

Russia to get Jewish facilities for 2014 Olympics	Knesset delays Holocaust pensions tax bill	Vienna exhibition may include Nazi-looted art

26

Israeli withdraws support for Durban II preparations	Yale launches international anti-Semitism network	Russian neo-Nazis to be tried for cemetery vandalism

25

Rabbinical Association re-established in Poland	Nuclear Agency says Iran continues to defy obligations	Holocaust-era film from Austria wins Oscar

22

Turkey to allow restitution of properties to religious minorities	Exiled Iranians say Tehran pursuing nuclear weapons	France freezes Iranian assets after suit by US terror victims

Holocaust survivors affirm right to pursue compensation claims	Israeli UK soccer coach receives anti-Semitic death threat	Olmert wants to change Israel’s relations with Jewish Diaspora

21

Israeli lawyer jailed for stealing Holocaust pensions	Dutch protests against 104-year-old singer’s appearance	Rabbi Jordan Pearlson of Toronto dies aged 83

20

Portugal honors diplomat who saved Jews from Holocaust	Hungarian parliament passes law punishing hate speech	Israel complains as Ahmadinejad launches new diatribe

Zionist Council to discuss status of Arab minority in Israel	New Zealand racist uses house arrest to run neo-Nazi website	Strong rise in hate crimes alarms experts in Russia

19

Canada extradites former Nazi camp guard to Italy	Knesset committee approves anti-racism bill	French chief rabbi supports Sarkozy on Holocaust education

15

Death of Hezbollah leader may trigger attacks against US Jews	Violent attacks against Jews in Britain on the rise	France may boycott UN conference on racism

Israeli minister asks Palestinians to protect Jewish sites	Jewish divorce law before Supreme Court in Canada	Holocaust does not figure in Russian schoolbooks

13

Danish police foil murder plot on Mohammed cartoonist	Olmert says all options against Iran remain on the table	Holocaust memorial in Belarus desecrated

12

Tunisian-born Jews in Israel win compensation claim	Olmert presses German Chancellor on Iran sanctions	UK Jewish school accused of discriminatory practices

11

Swiss television under fire for Nazi camp interview of far-right politician	Italian police investigate internet blog on ‘Jewish professors’	Jewish man assaulted in Australian city of Melbourne

07


Police raid headquarters of German neo-Nazi party	Jews disappointed with Vatican’s changes to prayer text	US government may pull out of Durban II conference
06

Polish immigrant charged for vandalizing Chicago Jewish cemetery	European Parliament leader condemns deadly suicide attack in Israel	Israeli commission on treatment of Holocaust survivors begins work

UK government to fund study trips to Auschwitz for better Holocaust education	Two teenagers admit to vandalizing Jewish cemetery in Hungary	Canadian Jewish Congress would prefer Supreme Court to deal with hate case

05

Rio judge bans carnival float with Holocaust theme	Spanish Jewish community calls for new law punishing Holocaust denial	Russian Orthodox Church leader says Shoah not a relevant school subject