European Jewish Congress- Newsletter 14 April 2021
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LIFE IN ISRAEL
AHEAD OF 73RD YOM HA’ATZMAUT, ISRAEL’S POPULATION STANDS AT 9.3 MILLION Ahead of Israel’s celebration of its 73rd anniversary, the population of the Jewish state stands at 9,327,000, the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) announced.
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Read moreON YOM HAZIKARON, PRESIDENT RIVLIN TELLS YOUNG GENERATION: “DON’T TAKE ISRAEL FOR GRANTED” On Yom HaZikaron, the Memorial Day for the Fallen Soldiers of the Wars of Israel and Victims of Actions of Terrorism, President Reuven Rivlin called on the young generation not to “take Israel for granted.”
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Read moreNEWS FROM COMMUNITIES
UNITED KINGDOM BOARD OF DEPUTIES PUBLISHES REGIONAL MANIFESTOS The Board of Deputies has published three separate Jewish manifestos for London, Scotland, and Wales, ahead of upcoming elections in May.
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Read moreWHEN PRINCE PHILIP, HONOURING HIS MOTHER, BECAME THE FIRST UK ROYAL TO VISIT ISRAEL The Duke of Edinburgh, who sadly passed on April 9 2021, was the first royal to attend a ceremony in Israel in 1994, when his mother Princess Alice was recognised as Righteous Among the Nations.
Sunday, April 11, 2021
Read moreOPENING DATE SET FOR MANCHESTER JEWISH MUSEUM AFTER TWO-YEAR REDEVELOPMENT Manchester Jewish Museum will welcome the public again this summer, bringing to a conclusion several years of planning, fundraising, consulting and building.
Sunday, April 11, 2021
Read moreGERMANY HAMBURG SENATE APPOINTS COMMISSIONER ON COMBATTING ANTISEMITISM The Senate of Hamburg, the city-state’s executive, has appointed Stefan Hensel as Coordinator on combatting and preventing antisemitism.
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Read moreBUCHENWALD CAMP A REMINDER OF NAZI “BARBARISM,” GERMAN PRESIDENT SAYS Germany’s president marked the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp by reminding his compatriots of the inconceivable atrocities the Nazis committed there during the Third Reich.
Monday, April 12, 2021
Read moreLITHUANIA LITHUANIAN WWII RESEARCH HEAD FIRED FOR WHITEWASHING NAZI COLLABORATOR The head of Lithuania’s Genocide and Resistance Research Centre has been fired for whitewashing the actions of a Nazi collaborator who was responsible for the deportation of 12,000 Jews to ghettos and confiscation of their property.
Monday, April 12, 2021
Read moreUKRAINE COLLAPSIBLE SYNAGOGUE OPENS IN UKRAINE’S BABYN YAR, SITE OF NAZI MASS GRAVE A new synagogue opened in Babyn Yar, the park in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv commemorating a ravine where the Nazis and their collaborators murdered more than 30,000 Jews.
Monday, April 12, 2021
Read moreNEWS & VIEWS
TRIPOLI AUTHORITIES SECRETLY TRYING TO CONVERT SYNAGOGUE INTO ISLAMIC CENTRE In utmost secrecy, Libyan authorities are attempting convert the Sla Dar Bishi Synagogue in Tripoli into a modern centre of Islamic culture.
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
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