European Jewish Congress- Newsletter 30 September – 2 October 2020
by Comunidad Judía · 17 Tishri 5781 – 5 October, 2020
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NEWS FROM COMMUNITIES
FRANCE COURT ORDERS FRANCE TO RETURN ART TO JEWISH COLLECTOR’S HEIRS A Paris appeals court ordered the French state to return three art canvasses to the heirs of a Jewish collector who died in a German concentration camp in 1945.
Thursday, October 1, 2020
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GERMAN BIKERS’ CLUB STAGES VIGIL TO PROTECT MUNICH SYNAGOGUE DURING YOM KIPPUR Members of a German bikers’ club staged a vigil outside the main synagogue in Munich pledging to protect the city’s Jewish community as it held services for Yom Kippur.
Thursday, October 1, 2020
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CZECH REPUBLIC HIDDEN FROM THE NAZIS, MURDERED JEWISH ARTIST’S TROVE OF PAINTINGS DISCOVERED IN PRAGUE HOUSE Fearful that the occupying Nazi forces could confiscate a lifetime’s worth of artwork, Jewish painter Gertrud Kauders decided in 1939 to hide her vast array of paintings. Nearly 80 years later, over 30 of them were found by a demolition team tearing down a house south of Prague.
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
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UNITED KINGDOM KEIR STARMER DECLARES “WHOLEHEARTED SUPPORT” FOR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL Sir Keir Starmer declared his “wholehearted support” for the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre planned for a site next to the House of Commons.
Thursday, October 1, 2020
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PORTUGAL PORTUGUESE JEWS CELEBRATE THE HIGH HOLIDAYS SAFELY AND TOGETHER The Jewish Community of Lisbon (CIL) was able to bring together a congregation of almost 200 people who were present and took part in the religious services performed at the Shaaré Tikvá Synagogue and at the Hotel Fénix, in strict compliance with social distancing restrictions.
Thursday, October 1, 2020
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MOROCCO CORONAVIRUS FORCES FIRST EVER CLOSURE OF CENTURIES-OLD MARRAKECH SYNAGOGUE The centuries-old Slat Al Azama Synagogue in Marrakech, Morocco, sat silent for the first time due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
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POLAND WALL PAINTINGS IN WŁODAWA BEIT MIDRASH TO BE RESTORED WITH EU GRANT The polychrome wall paintings in the Beit Midrash of the historic synagogue complex in Włodawa will be restored in a two-year, €1.2 million operation mostly funded by the EU.
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
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NEWS & VIEWS
75 YEARS AGO HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS CELEBRATED SUKKOT ON THEIR OWN TERMS For the first time since their liberation, the survivors of the Shoah sat down together to reflect on their only recently acquired freedom from their nightmarish bondage.
Friday, October 2, 2020
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LIFE IN ISRAEL
LEBANON, ISRAEL ANNOUNCE TALKS ON DISPUTED BORDERS Lebanon and Israel said they will hold US-brokered negotiations on their disputed land and maritime borders, the first talks in decades between two countries technically still at war.
Friday, October 2, 2020
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