European Jewish Congress-Newsletter 23 February 2021
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Comunidad Judía
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12 Adar 5781 – 24 February, 2021
| EJC PRESIDENT KANTOR PRAISES THE POPE FOR IMPROMPTU VISIT TO HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR
EJC President Dr. Moshe Kantor praised Pope Francis who visited a Holocaust survivor in her Rome apartment to pay tribute to all those who suffered from what he called “the craziness of Nazi populism.”
Monday, February 22, 2021 |
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| LILIANA SEGRE’S ENCOURAGEMENT OF VACCINE SPARKS ONLINE ANTISEMITIC ABUSE
Italian Holocaust survivor and Senator for life Liliana Segre’s attempt to encourage other older adults to receive the COVID-19 vaccine has triggered a wave of antisemitic comments and other invective on social media.
Sunday, February 21, 2021 |
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| CRIF PUBLISHES NEW SURVEY ON PERCEPTIONS OF ANTISEMITISM IN FRANCE
The Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (Crif), commissioned a survey from Ipsos France on perceptions of antisemitism in contemporary France.
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 |
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| PRESIDENT STEINMEIER LAUDS JEWISH CULTURE IN GERMANY, WARNS OF ANTISEMITISM
German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier warned of rising antisemitism as he praised over 1,700 years of Jewish life in Germany.
Monday, February 22, 2021 |
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| IBN GABIROL ASSOCIATION, NEW FCJE CULTURAL WING, LAUNCHES WEBSITE
The Ibn Gabirol Association, the cultural wing of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain (FCJE) has launched a new website.
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 |
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| JEWISH STUDENTS CALL ON MADRID UNIVERSITY TO EXPEL NEO-NAZI
The European Union of Jewish Students (EUJS) and the Federation of Jewish Youth in Spain (FEJJE) are calling on the Universidad Complutense de Madrid to expel a student who made shocking antisemitic remarks at a neo-Nazi march.
Sunday, February 21, 2021 |
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| AMSTERDAM MAYOR WANTS CITY’S MUSEUM TO RETURN €18M NAZI-LOOTED PAINTING
The mayor of Amsterdam has asked a Dutch committee to reassess its decision on a Holocaust restitution claim that keeps a €18 million painting looted by the Nazis in the city’s hands.
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 |
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| TORAH RETURNED TO DUTCH JEWISH COMMUNITY 80 YEARS AFTER IT WAS HIDDEN FROM NAZIS
A Torah scroll that disappeared from a Dutch synagogue following the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands has been rediscovered 80 years later and returned to the Jewish community.
Monday, February 22, 2021 |
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| LONDON’S BEVIS MARKS SYNAGOGUE GETS NEARLY £500,000 TO KICKSTART RENOVATIONS
London’s historic Bevis Marks synagogue, the oldest in the UK, has received £497,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to carry out renovation and other work hampered over the past year by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Monday, February 22, 2021 |
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| 15TH-CENTURY MEGILLAT ESTHER, AMONG OLDEST IN WORLD, GIFTED TO NATIONAL LIBRARY OF ISRAEL
Ahead of Purim this year, a rare scroll of the Book of Esther, believed to have been penned in the mid-15th century in the Iberian Peninsula, has been donated to the National Library of Israel and made available online.
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 |
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