French-Algerian Abdelkader Merah, brother of terrorist Mohamed Merah who killed several people in 2012, including Jonathan Sandler, a 30-year-old rabbi and teacher of religion, and his two sons Gabriel and Arieh, aged four and five, was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a Paris special court.
Patriarch Kirill of Russian Orthodox church visited FJC’s Jewish Museum of Tolerance in Moscow last week, as part of the Russian Interfaith Assembly meeting that also took place in the museum.
“We are profoundly disappointed that the Polish government’s proposal on restitution of confiscated property excludes the vast majority of Polish Holocaust survivors and their families,” World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder said in a statement.
Bulgaria announced this week that it will join Britain, Germany, Austria and Romania in adopting the working definition of anti-Semitism of the International Holocaust Rembrance Alliance.
Poland’s Culture Minister has sent a letter to the President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani in which he complains that an exhibition about the Holocaust in the House of European History (HEH) in Brussels features “flagrant misinformation and omissions.”
French Prime Minister Edourd Philippe pleaded for practicing Jewish students to be offered an alternative to an examination that would take place on Saturday, the Shabbat in Judaism, and made a commitment that the practice of ritual slaughter would not be questioned.
Congrats to @polinmuseum for work on Jewish Cultural Heritage , well deserved, tweeted Johannes Börmannn, Deputy European Commission Coordinator on combating Antisemitism
Every year flags of terrorist group Hezbollah are seen at demonstrations in London, like in June during the anti-Israel Al Quds Day march. Demonstrators are able to fly Hezbollah flags because they claim they are showing solidarity with the political wing of the Lebanese organisation.
