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NEWS FROM COMMUNITIES DENMARK DANISH LAWMAKERS TO MULL CIRCUMCISION BAN, SPARKING PROTEST The Danish parliament is scheduled to consider a bill proposing a ban on non-medical circumcisions. Monday, September 7, 2020  Read more HUNGARY...

NEWS FROM COMMUNITIES FRANCE HYPER CACHER AND CHARLIE HEBDO ATTACKS: SUSPECTED ACCOMPLICES GO ON TRIAL IN PARIS The trial of 14 suspects accused of involvement in the 2015 attacks on the satirical magazine Charlie...

NEWS FROM COMMUNITIES SWEDEN SWEDISH JEWS CONDEMN ANTISEMITIC CHANTS DURING MALMÖ RIOTS The Official Council of Swedish Jewish Communities, the country’s EJC affiliate, has condemned the serious antisemitic statements uttered during the riots that...

OP-ED OP-ED BY MOSHE KANTOR : A NUCLEAR IRAN MEANS A REGIONAL HEGEMON AND A GLOBAL THREAT “The Islamic Republic’s aggressive actions over the past five years and its efforts to destabilize the region...

NEWS FROM COMMUNITIES GERMANY GERMAN AND ISRAELI JETS MARK FIRST JOINT FLYOVER, HONOUR HOLOCAUST VICTIMS Israeli Air Force pilots and their German counterparts honoured Holocaust victims with a flyover of Dachau concentration camp. This is the...

NEWS FROM COMMUNITIES UNITED KINGDOM UK PM CRITICISES RAPPER’S “ABHORRENT” ANTISEMITIC COMMENTS AND CONDEMNS TWITTER’S RESPONSE UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson regards rapper Wiley’s string of antisemitic tweets as “abhorrent” and believes Twitter’s response...

  Thank you for taking part – COVID-19: Sharing the international lessons learned Dear sir/madam, Thank you for taking part in last week’s international conference. Thousands of you from over 100 different countries helped to...

The Board of Deputies’ Commission on Racial Inclusivity in the Jewish Community, chaired by New Statesman Political Editor Stephen Bush, has this week launched its call for written evidence. As well as oral evidence...

EVENTS & MEETINGS DR. MOSHE KANTOR OPENS INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CONFERENCE ON COVID-19 LESSONS EJC President Dr. Moshe Kantor gave opening remarks at the online conference: “COVID-19: Sharing the international lessons learned”, organised by the...

Jewish community demands answers from Twitter and Facebook in aftermath of Wiley’s extended antisemitic rant The Board of Deputies, the Jewish Leadership Council and the Community Security Trust this week wrote to Twitter and...