Le Pen is a leading contender in the upcoming French presidential contest, with a recent poll showing her advancing to the second round of balloting in May.
Last month, over 10,000 young Jews joined Repair the World’s Martin Luther King day volunteering activities and the organization also held service projects and discussions in Washington DC.
Benoit Hamon, a left-wing politician, who was elected Sunday be the candidate of the Socialist Party in the upcoming presidential election in April and May, was reportedly endorsed by the founders of anti-Zionist and anti-Semitivc party.
A comment by Anti-Defamation League (ADL) CEO Jonathan Greenblatt criticising President Trump’s statement on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in which he failed to mention that the victims were Jews, drew a negative comment by World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder.
‘’No Jew should be forced to leave Europe,’’ said Antonio Tajani, the newly elected President of the European Parliament, in a speech at the annual ceremony marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day in the parliament.
The head of the Brussels-based European Jewish Association (EJA) Rabbi Menachem Margolin - which represents thousands of Jews from communities across Europe – welcomed the election of Italian MEP Antonio Tajani as the new President of the European Parliament, urging him to devote time and resources properly to tackle anti-Semitism.
US Jewish groups warmly welcomed the vote by the House of Representative of a motion expressing opposition to the UN Security Council resolution against settlements after the US abstained instead of using its veto power.
France paid tribute to the journalists, police officers and shoppers at a kosher supermarket in Paris killed two years ago by Islamist terrorists, the first of a wave of terror attacks that has left more than 230 dead and triggered a state of emergency.
