Monthly Archive: 12 Adar 5781 – 24 February, 2021

STATEMENT EJC PRESIDENT KANTOR PRAISES THE POPE FOR IMPROMPTU VISIT TO HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR EJC President Dr. Moshe Kantor praised Pope Francis who visited a Holocaust survivor in her Rome apartment to pay tribute to...

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RABBINATE OF MARBELLA B’H 1) In remembrance of the Mahasit HaShekel mentioned in the perashah “Ki Tisha”, the custom was established to make a special donation for each male member of the family. The...

Jewish Genealogy in the Ottoman Empire The vast Ottoman Empire was home to a variety of Jewish communities. This week Michael Waas will discuss available resources for genealogical research of Jewish families in that...

Board of Deputies congratulates organisers of Charedi vaccination event Board of Deputies Vice President Edwin Shuker has applauded the organisers of a session in Hackney which was set up with the aim of encouraging...

NEWS FROM COMMUNITIES DENMARK DAN UZAN REMEMBERED ON SIXTH ANNIVERSARY OF COPENHAGEN ATTACK Remembrances came in n the sixth anniversary of the attack on the synagogue of Copenhagen and the murder of Dan Uzan...

NEW RADIO SHOW RADIO SHOW EP. 1 – NUSACH ITALKI The EJC has launched a new French-language radio show highlighting Europe’s Jewish Communities, in cooperation with Brussels-based Radio Judaïca. For its first edition, we...

In November, 1940, the German occupiers of Warsaw forced nearly 400,000 Jews into 1.3 square miles of land, then walled off the neighborhood. That’s when a group of Jews got together to document what was...

POLAND POLISH POLICE PROBE JOURNALIST FOR WRITING ABOUT POLES’ HOLOCAUST COMPLICITY Katarzyna Markusz, who runs the Jewish.pl website, was questioned on suspicion that she violated Article 133 of the Polish constitution, which subjects those...

NEWS FROM COMMUNITIES POLAND IN CASE THAT COULD MUZZLE HOLOCAUST RESEARCH, POLAND ORDERS SCHOLARS TO APOLOGISE A court in Warsaw ruled that two prominent Holocaust researchers must apologise to a woman who claimed her...