European Jewish Congress- Newsletter 18-20 August 2019
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GERMANY 
GERMANY’S JEWISH COUNCIL WARNS AGAINST AFD’S “RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM” Dr. Josef Schuster, the president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany – the country’s EJC affiliate – has accused the far-right populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party of having right-wing extremist tendencies.
Monday, August 19, 2019
Read moreGERMANY’S FAR RIGHT: POLICE TO RESTRUCTURE AS THREAT OF EXTREMISM GROWS Germany’s Federal Criminal Police (BKA) wants to set up a new central unit to fight right-wing extremism and hate crimes, according to a research conducted by German media outlets WDR, NDR and Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Read moreRUSSIAN FEDERATION RUSSIAN COMPANY REMOVES ANTISEMITIC ADVERT FEATURING ORTHODOX JEW Amid public criticism, an asset management firm in Russia removed billboards featuring a depiction of a Haredi Jew as a money lender extending one hand with the words: “Goodbye rent!”
Monday, August 19, 2019
Read moreUNITED KINGDOM UK BREXIT PARTY MEPS APPEARED ON SHOW WHICH PROMOTED HOLOCAUST DENIAL Ann Widdecombe and two other Brexit Party figures have appeared numerous times on a radio show which has hosted conspiracy theorists and Holocaust deniers.
Monday, August 19, 2019
Read moreLONDON MAYOR CALLS FOR APPROVAL OF PLANNED HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL London Mayor Sadiq Khan called on a local council to approve plans to build a Holocaust memorial next to Parliament.
Monday, August 19, 2019
Read moreHUNGARY HISTORIC BUDAPEST SYNAGOGUE TO RE-OPEN Historic Budapest’s Rumbach synagogue built in 1873 and closed in 1956 is to re-open in 2020.
Monday, August 19, 2019
Read moreITALY ITALIAN JEWS LAUNCH CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN TO SAVE CENTURIES-OLD BOOKS The book collection of the Italian Rabbinical School are in desperate need of restoration. The Union of Italian Jewish Communities has launched a crowdfunding to restore its collection of over 8,000 centuries-old Jewish books.
Monday, August 19, 2019
Read moreAUSTRIA AUSTRIAN CENTRE-RIGHT CALLS FOR BAN ON FAR-RIGHT IDENTITARIANS Austria’s governing centre-right party said it will insist on banning the far-right Identitarian Movement (IBÖ) as a condition of any coalition after next elections.
Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Read moreBELARUS FORMER SYNAGOGUE IN BELARUS SELLING AS WAREHOUSE A unique former synagogue in Belarus from the 19th century is being auctioned off for a little over 5,000 euros.
Monday, August 19, 2019
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