European Jewish Congress- Newsletter 16-19 February 2020
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NEWS FROM COMMUNITIES
BELGIUM 
MEPS EXPRESS CONCERNS WITH UPCOMING AALST CARNIVAL The Members of the European Parliament Working Group on Antisemitism have published an open letter expressing concerns about the potential for racism and antisemitism at the upcoming Aalst Carnival in Belgium and calling on the local authorities to ensure that the festival be a space free of manifestations of hatred.
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Read moreOWNER OF FAMOUS LIÈGE RESTAURANT CAUGHT SINGING NAZI CHANTS AND PERFORMING NAZI SALUTE Marc De Bruyn, new owner of the famous restaurant ‘Lequet’ in the city of Liège, Belgium, sang, in front of clients, Nazi chants and performed Nazi salute.
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Read moreDENMARK COPENHAGEN JEWISH SECURITY GUARD REMEMBERED ON FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF SYNAGOGUE SHOOTING A Jewish volunteer security guard is being remembered on the fifth anniversary of his death in a shooting attack at the Great Synagogue in the Danish capital of Copenhagen.
Sunday, February 16, 2020
Read moreGERMANY GERMANY REJECTS PROPOSED LAW TO NATURALISE JEWS WHO FLED THE NAZIS The German parliament rejected a proposed law that would have guaranteed naturalisation for German Jews who had fled the Nazis.
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Read moreGERMANY TO INTRODUCE NEW MEASURES TO CRACK DOWN ON ONLINE HATE SPEECH Germany is set to introduce new measures to toughen online speech laws and tighten the screws on social networks as far-right extremist groups and torrents of threats against politicians grow in the country.
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Read moreBERLIN’S COMMISSIONER TO FIGHT ANTISEMITISM SLAMS UNIVERSITY FOR BDS EVENT The city-state of Berlin’s commissioner to combat antisemitism, Lorenz Korgel, criticised Humboldt University for holding an event with an alleged academic antisemite who promotes the BDS campaign targeting Israel.
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Read morePOLAND KRYNKI SYNAGOGUE TO BE RENOVATED The so-called “Kaukaski” synagogue in the eastern Polish town of Krynki, long used as a cinema and more recently as a sports and culture center, is to undergo renovation.
Monday, February 17, 2020
Read moreTHE NETHERLANDS DUTCH GROUP NOTES RISE IN ANTISEMITISM The number of reports of antisemitism registered by the Netherlands Jewish organisation Cidi rose 35% last year to a record 182.
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Read moreNEWS & VIEWS
ALEXANDRIA SYNAGOGUE HOSTS EGYPT’S LARGEST JEWISH PRAYERS IN DECADES From across the Diaspora, some 180 Jews of Egyptian origin flew to the land of their fathers for a Shabbat dedicated to marking the newly restored 14th-century Eliyahu Hanavi synagogue in Alexandria and the largest Jewish prayer gathering in Egypt for decades.
Monday, February 17, 2020
Read moreLIFE IN ISRAEL
ISRAEL TO BUILD RAIL LINE STRAIGHT FROM BEN GURION AIRPORT TO WESTERN WALL Israel’s Transportation Ministry advanced plans to build a new train station that would directly connect Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport to the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
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