European Jewish Congress- Newsletter 26-28 April 2020
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EJC IN THE MEDIA
TIMES OF ISRAEL: CORONAVIRUS CRISIS FUELING ANTISEMITISM AROUND WORLD EJC President Dr. Moshe Kantor warned that the coronavirus crisis had the potential to spark populist extremism, similar to what erupted after the Great Depression and contributed to the rise of Nazism.
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
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BELGIUM BELGIAN AUSCHWITZ SURVIVOR HENRI KICHKA DIES OF CORONAVIRUS One of Belgium’s last Holocaust survivors, Henri Kichka, has died of COVID-19. He passed away in a Brussels care home at the age of 94. May his memory be a blessing.
Monday, April 27, 2020
Read moreCZECH REPUBLIC WITHOUT TOURIST REVENUE, PRAGUE’S JEWISH COMMUNITY FEARS FOR FUTURE OF WELFARE SERVICES With ticket sales to Prague’s Jewish quarter halted during the coronavirus lockdown, the Jewish community is having to tap its reserves to pay for welfare services for Holocaust survivors that tourists usually help fund.
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Read moreGERMANY IN GERMANY, WHERE CORONAVIRUS IS AT BAY, SYNAGOGUES PREPARE TO REOPEN When synagogues reopen in Germany in the coming weeks, there will be no handshakes, no hugs and no parading with the Torah, a mainstay of Shabbat services.
Monday, April 27, 2020
Read moreSLOVAKIA RESTORATION OF VANDALISED JEWISH CEMETERY IN NÁMESTOVO NEARLY COMPLETED Wearing masks to work within Slovakia’s coronavirus restrictions, volunteers have almost fully completed the restoration of the Jewish cemetery in Námestovo, Slovakia, which suffered a vandal attack in December 2019 that saw at least 60 headstones toppled.
Monday, April 27, 2020
Read moreNEWS & VIEWS
POPE PIUS XII “KNEW ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST AND WAS SILENT”, SAY HISTORIANS WHO HAVE ACCESSED VATICAN ARCHIVES A group of researchers has unearthed new documents at the Vatican archives, which they believe show that Pope Pius XII was aware of an important American letter informing him of the atrocities of the Holocaust.
Monday, April 27, 2020
Read more28 US SENATORS REQUEST FUNDING INCREASE FOR ANTISEMITISM ENVOY A bipartisan group of 28 senators sent a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, and asked to increase funding for the State Department’s Office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism.
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Read moreEUJS LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN ON ZIONISM & YOUNG EUROPEAN JEWS On Yom Ha’atzmaut, the European Union of Jewish students (EUJS) is launching a campaign to listen to and empower young European Jews and their views on Zionism.
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Read moreLIFE IN ISRAEL
ON ITS 72ND BIRTHDAY, ISRAEL IS HOME TO NINE MILLION PEOPLE, SEVEN MILLION JEWS Israel’s population is now more than nine million people, with almost seven million of them Jews, Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics revealed.
Monday, April 27, 2020
Read moreREMEMBERING ISRAEL’S FALLEN HEROES VIRTUALLY ON YOM HAZIKARON This year ceremonies won’t be held across the world due to COVID-19, making it even more challenging to honour those who died to ensure the independence of Israel and the safety of its citizens.
Monday, April 27, 2020
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