Global News Archives

June 2009

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Riots in Jerusalem over Shabbat opening of Old City parking lot	Eizenstat calls for US arbitration commission for Nazi-looted art disputes	Poland investigates US-based man over World War II killings

26

Natan Sharansky elected as new head of Jewish Agency	Prague forum to discuss open Holocaust-era restitution questions	Ecuador ministry fails to remove anti-Semitic graffiti

25

Iranian parliamentarians snub Ahmadinejad's victory party	Obama to send Jewish US ambassador to Morocco	Kosher slaughtering legal across European Union

24

Israel faces growing pressure on West Bank settlements	British House of Commons elects first-ever Jewish speaker	Appeals court hands death sentence for killer of Yemeni Jew

23

Lithuanian government wants further delay of compensation payments	Neo-Nazi adopted highway section named after rabbi	Ten people killed as Tehran tries to crush protests

19

Construction of Polish Jewry museum to begin	Vatican forbids ordinations by Williamson sect	Three more rabbis and a cantor graduate in Berlin

17

Mossad chief says Iran to have nuclear weapon by 2014	Foundation says documents will show Pius helped Jews	Budapest Holocaust memorial desecrated with pigs' feet

16

Iran to allow recounts in presidential election	Italian vigilante group investigated over fascist uniform	'Kosher' internet search engine is launched

15

Ahmadinejad declared winner of disputed Iranian election	Netanyahu would accept demilitarized Palestinian state	Hungarian police union to collaborate with far-right party

12

White supremacist charged with Holocaust museum murder	Mitchell says US supports Palestinians aspirations	Jewish artists celebrated at UN exhibit in Geneva

10

Canadian Jewish Congress presents award to PM	Mitchell say Israel and US are "close allies and friends"	Norwegian king visits local Jewish community in Oslo

09

Barack Obama reportedly wants 'immediate' peace talks	Iran reported to have stepped up nuclear fuel production	New York lawmaker says Holocaust memorial only for Jews

08

Brazil establishes panel to probe rising neo-Nazism	Jewish Cemetery in Greece desecrated again

05

German court says Nazi forced laborers entitled to pensions	Barack Obama to visit Buchenwald concentration camp

04

Barack Obama speech reaches out to the Muslim world	EJC President Kantor criticizes tone of EU election rhetoric	Lieberman says that Israel not planning to bomb Iran

03

Number of anti-Semitic incidents in the US continues to fall	First Rabbis graduate from new seminary in Berlin	Holocaust revisionist allowed to appeal Australian jail term

02

Canadian holocaust education plan to focus on St. Louis incident	Maccabi Australia decides to abandon ban on non-Jewish members	Spanish prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for alleged Nazi guards in US