European Jewish Congress- Newsletter 24-26 June 2020
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Comunidad Judía
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7 Tammuz 5780 – 29 June, 2020
| CRIF PRESIDENT EXPRESSES SHOCK AND DISBELIEF AT REDUCED SENTENCE FOR HOLOCAUST DENIER
CRIF President Francis Kalifat has expressed shock and disbelief after a French court reduced on appeal the prison sentence of a notorious antisemite for denying the Holocaust to a 5.000 Euro fine.
Friday, June 26, 2020 |
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| CONCRETE SLAB HURLED INTO HOME OF ELDERLY JEWISH WOMAN NEAR PARIS IN SUSPECTED ANTISEMITIC INCIDENT
In a suspected hate crime, a large concrete slab was thrown through a living room window of a 84-year-old Jewish woman in the Paris suburb of Gagny.
Friday, June 26, 2020 |
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| SHADOW SECRETARY REMOVED AFTER TWEETING ANTISEMITIC CONSPIRACY THEORY
Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer has sacked Rebecca Long-Bailey as shadow education secretary after she tweeted praise for analleging that the US police tactic of kneeling on someone’s neck was taught by the Israeli secret service.
Thursday, June 25, 2020 |
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| PORTUGUESE JEWS CALL TO IMPROVE CITIZENSHIP PROCEDURES WITHOUT AFFECTING RIGHTS OF SEPHARDIC JEWS
Representatives of the Jewish community of Lisbon (CIL) met with members of the Portuguese Parliament to discuss potential changes to the Nationality Law regarding the descendants of Sephardic Jews.
Friday, June 26, 2020 |
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| MEET THE MUSLIM WOMAN WHO OVERSEES MOROCCO’S JEWISH LEGACY
Zhor Rehihil serves as the curator of the Museum of Moroccan Judaism. Among the relics she safeguards are a carefully wrapped ancient Torah scroll, ornamental brass lamps, and decades-old siddurim, or Jewish prayer books.
Wednesday, June 24, 2020 |
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| 51.000 SIGN PETITION AGAINST CENTRE BEING BUILT ON 500-YEAR-OLD VILNIUS CEMETERY
More than 51,000 people have signed a petition opposing plans to build a convention centre on top of a 500-year-old Jewish cemetery in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.
Friday, June 26, 2020 |
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| GERMAN MUSEUM TO REBUILD ANCIENT SYNAGOGUE AS PART OF OPEN-AIR MUSEUM
An open air museum in Bavaria is rebuilding a 18th century village synagogue that closed for worship more than a century ago and was dismantled in 2014-2015 when on the point of collapse.
Thursday, June 25, 2020 |
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| EUROPOL WARNS OF CLIMATE OF ANIMOSITY AGAINST JEWS AND MUSLIMS IN EUROPE
The head of the European Counter Terrorism Centre at Europol, Manuel Navarrete, warned of an existing climate of animosity against Jews and Muslims in Europe at the presentation of the latest annual EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report.
Wednesday, June 24, 2020 |
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| BELGIAN PARLIAMENT CALLS ON EU FOR MEASURES AGAINST ISRAELI ANNEXATION
A majority of lawmakers in the lower house of the Belgian parliament passed a non-binding resolution calling on their government to push in the EU for drawing up a list of countermeasures against Israel if it “annexes occupied” territory.
Friday, June 26, 2020 |
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| KOSOVO DESIGNATES HEZBOLLAH AS A TERRORIST ENTITY
The Republic of Kosovo officially designated both Hezbollah’s military and political wings as a terrorist group.
Thursday, June 25, 2020 |
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