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WJC President Ronald Lauder: One of the biggest challenge facing Jews this year is bad PR
In an interview with The Jerusalem Post after being selected as one of the 50 most influential Jews of 2021, President Lauder said that a "crisis in leadership has led to permission for our enemies to define us, creating space for antisemitism to flourish unchecked, especially on social media and in political discourse." Read More...
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WJC President Ronald S. Lauder Addresses 2021 G20 Interfaith Forum
“When young people are not learning the basic rules of decency, they gravitate toward the teaching of hate and intolerance,” Amb. Lauder said, adding, “All of us have the power and responsibility to turn this around. This can only come through education.” Read More...
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WJC cosponsors UN Human Rights Council side event on rise of hate speech
The event centering around the challenges posed by the growing disinformation and misinformation that spreads, particularly, online, took place in the framework of Greece’s Presidency of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Read More...
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Pope warns of antisemitism as he visits Hungary | BBC
"I think of the threat of antisemitism still lurking in Europe and elsewhere," the pope said in an ecumenical meeting in Budapest with leaders of other Christian religions and Jews. "This is a fuse that must not be allowed to burn. And the best way to defuse it is to work together, positively, and to promote fraternity." Read More...
Horrors of Holocaust must not be forgotten, Pope Francis tells Slovak Jews
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Countering anti-Israel bias at the Durban Conference
The UN event commemorating the 20th anniversary of the World Conference Against Racism in Durban will begin next week. While the original Durban Conference aimed to become “a landmark in the struggle to eradicate all forms of racism,” it degenerated into a hallmark of antisemitism and anti-Zionism. Read More...
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‘Absurd to suggest one genocide more heinous than another’
“Elie Wiesel taught that ‘the Holocaust was a unique and uniquely Jewish event, albeit with universal implications.’ In the same vein, the Srebrenica genocide was a unique and uniquely Bosniak event, albeit with universal implications, just as the Rwandan genocide was a unique and uniquely Tutsi event, albeit again with universal implications,” said WJC Associate Executive Vice President Menachem Z. Rosensaft. Read More..
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German police foil synagogue attack on Yom Kippur | Deutsche Welle
Condemning the attack, Armin Laschet, the premier of North Rhine-Westphalia, said "It appears that prior to today on Yom Kippur, an Islamist motivated attack was averted," adding "We will do everything we can to clarify which networks may have been behind the plot." Read More...
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Antisemitic incidents spike to 20-year high in Austria | JPost
There were 562 reported antisemitic incidents in Austria in the first half of 2021, compared to 257 such incidents in the same period of 2020, according to a report by the WJC-affiliated Jewish Community of Vienna (IKG). Read More...
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Ahead of Malmo, Sweden releases pledge to combat antisemitism
In a joint op-ed with several lawmakers, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven outlined the pledges, writing that “Hatred of Jews is a poison in our society. Antisemitic hate crimes and incidents are becoming more common, both in Sweden and in the rest of the world. It's frightening and requires us to act. Every form of racism must be fought.” Read More...
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Governments must step up the fight against antisemitism in all its forms, says ECRI
Noting that antisemitic acts are committed by a wide range of perpetrators, including neo-Nazis, political and religious extremists, the report recommended comprehensive guidance to governments on institutional coordination, prevention and education, protection of Jews and their institutions, and prosecution and law enforcement. Read More...
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Belgium won’t send minister to UN anti-racism conference
“It is obvious that this conference has become a place where antisemitic speech and sometimes revisionist held the upper hand,” Foreign affairs minister Sophie Wilmès told Belga news agency, adding that “Belgium doesn’t want to validate this with a ministerial presence.” Read More...
How the UN Durban Conference devolved into a ‘festival of hate’ against Jews | JTA
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PM Bennett, after meeting Egypt’s Sissi: ‘We laid the foundation for deep ties’ | Times of Israel
The summit was the first in a decade between the two countries’ leaders, during which the two leaders discussed disarming Hamas, the return of the hostages and halting Iranian aggresion. Read More...
EgyptAir to launch direct Tel Aviv-Cairo flights next month
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Two wounded in stabbing attack at Central Bus Station | JPost
The attack came just hours after an attempted stabbing attack at the Gush Etzion junction, in which IDF soldiers stopped a terrorist who attempted to stab them. Two female Border Police patrol officers at the scene shot and wounded the terrorist. Read More...
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‘Restore faith of the Jewish people in the Diaspora in Israel’ says Rabbi Stav | JPost
“The biggest challenge to Jewish society in Israel is to believe that the common ground that exists within the Jewish people can overcome our differences,” said Rabbi Stav, who heads the Tzohar religious-Zionist rabbinical association. Read More...
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A year after normalization, Israel-UAE ties continue to bear fruit | Times of Israel
Hosted by the Israeli Mission to the UN, the event was attended by envoys from several other countries, including US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield and Oman’s deputy ambassador to the UN Ahmed Dawood Ali Al Zadjal, whose country does not have official diplomatic relations with Jerusalem. Read More...
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Biden to deliver first UN General Assembly speech next week | CNBC
President Biden is set to travel to New York City, home to the UN headquarters, on September 21st. The UN General Assembly began this past Tuesday. Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will speak on September 27th. Read More...
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'Fiddler' international cast sing 'Sabbath Prayer' in 9 languages | JPost
The song, which is available in Hebrew, Yiddish, Tagalog, Japanese, has so far surpassed a quarter-million views in various distribution channels. Its release comes amid the long-anticipated reopening of Broadway theaters in New York from its coronavirus-induced hiatus. Read More...
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Slovakia government apologizes for WWII anti-Jew laws | AP
Marking the legislation prevented access of Jews to education and authorized the transfer of their property to non-Jewish owners, the government said in a statement that it “feels a moral obligation today to publicly express sorrow over the crimes committed by the past regime." Read More.,.
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Historian brings to light story of the dressmakers of Auschwitz
Lucy Adlington was browsing through archive documents from the 1930s and 1940s to learn about what it was like for women during the war when she discovered the several dressmakers in Auschwitz's inspiring story of resistance and survival. Read More.,.
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OpEd | The Forgotten Jews of the Forest
“If the arc of Holocaust history has proved anything, it’s that understanding the small pieces is how we see the big picture. When it comes to what happened in the woods, these narratives are the only way for us to know this history. The opportunity to collect them is vanishing,” writes Rebecca Frankel in The New York Times. Read More.,.
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OpEd | Three holy men we should be remembering
Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, Menachem Ziemba, and Yisachar Shlomo Teichtal were transformed by the horror and death of the Holocaust. This led them to formulate ideas that subverted traditional theology and theodicy. Yet, these holy men are forgotten by almost all Jews, writes Rabbi Anshei Sholom. Read More...
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Bahrain’s first-ever envoy to Israel presents credentials to President Herzog | Times of Israel
"I am confident that this historic step will lay a solid foundation for relations between our two countries, based on the values of tolerance and coexistence between peoples, beliefs, and religions," said Ambassador Khaled Yousif Al-Jalahma. Read More...
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Bahrain's Jews worship in public for first time in decades | France24
Bahrain's tiny Jewish community, about 50 people, have practised their faith behind closed doors since 1947, but this year Ebrahim Nonoo is leading prayer services in Manama's renovated synagogue. Read More...
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15 September 1935 | German Parliament passes Nuremberg Race Laws
The Nuremberg Laws is the name given to two laws enacted in Nazi Germany in September of 1935, the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor and the Reich Citizenship Law. The Laws stated that Jews were members of an inherently inferior and dangerous race. Read More...
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17 September 1978 | Israel and Egypt sign Camp David Accords
The Camp David Accords, which laid the groundwork for peace between the two nations, were the result of a private twelve-day summit with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and United States President Jimmy Carter at Camp David in rural Maryland. Read More...
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13 September 1993 | Oslo Accords are signed
Under the terms of the agreement, Israel recognized the PLO as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, while the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) renounced terrorism and recognized Israel’s right to exist. The accords ultimately collapsed following the failure of the Camp David Summit in 2000. Read More...
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