European Jewish Congress- Newsletter 1-3 March 2020
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Comunidad Judía
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9 Adar 5780 – 5 March, 2020
| ‘MEET A JEW’ IN GERMANY: CENTRAL COUNCIL LAUNCHES PROJECT AGAINST PREJUDICE
The Central Council of Jews in Germany has launched the ‘Meet a Jew’project, designed to introduce today’s Jewish life and Jewish individuals to people who have never met any Jews.
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 |
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| MEMORY POLITICS HAUNT BERLINALE AFTER SCANDAL OVER NAZI PAST
As the Berlinale reels from revelations that its founding director Alfred Bauer was a high-ranking Nazi, the issue of memory politics looms large over the film festival’s 70th anniversary.
Monday, March 2, 2020 |
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| ITALIAN RABBIS ISSUE PRAYER FOR WELLBEING OF CORONAVIRUS PATIENTS
An association of Italian rabbis has urged congregants to pray for the well-being of the hundreds of people there and beyond infected with the coronavirus.
Monday, March 2, 2020 |
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| MOROCCAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CELEBRATES RABBI ELIEZER DAVILA’S HILOULA
Several hundred members of the Moroccan Jewish community gathered at the Israelite cemetery in Rabat to celebrate the of Rabbi Eliezer Davila.
Monday, March 2, 2020 |
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| NEW DIRECTOR OF POLAND’S JEWISH MUSEUM VOWS INDEPENDENCE
The landmark Jewish museum in Poland’s capital retained its independence and can carry on with its mission now that a new director is in place after a year-long stalemate with the government.
Monday, March 2, 2020 |
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| DANCERS PLAY JEWS AND NAZIS ALONGSIDE AUSCHWITZ FLOATS AT YET ANOTHER SPANISH CARNIVAL
Amid debate on the appropriateness of festive parades making light of the murder of Jews and Romanis by the Nazis, second carnival in Spain has referenced the Holocaust with Nazi and concentration camp prisoner uniform costumes.
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 |
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| JEWISH CEMETERY DESECRATED IN TUNISIA
Graves and stones at the Jewish cemetery in Sousse, Tunisia have been smashed and desecrated. Pictures detailing the desecration were posted on Facebook by Tunisian Jewish lawyer Yves Kamhi.
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 |
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| ARGENTINE PRESIDENT TO DECLASSIFY AMIA FILES
Argentine President Alberto Fernández announced that he will order the declassification of intelligence related to the 1994 bombing of Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA)
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 |
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| VATICAN OPENS ARCHIVES ON HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL HOLOCAUST ERA POPE
The Vatican unseals the archives of history’s most contentious pope, potentially shedding light on why Pius XII stayed silent during the extermination of six million Jews during the Holocaust.
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 |
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| WHY THE FUTURE OF AGRICULTURE LIES IN ISRAEL’S DESERT
Farmers in arid areas of India need no convincing that the climate is changing under their feet. Their income is drying up along with their groundwater wells, forcing many to give up farming.
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 |
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