EUROPEAN JEWISH CONGRESS-Newsletter 8 June 2021
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Comunidad Judía
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30 Sivan 5781 – 10 June, 2021
| OP-ED BY DR. MOSHE KANTOR: “ATTACKS ON JEWS, AS JEWS, ARE ALWAYS ANTISEMITIC”
“Attacks on Jews and Jewish targets are always motivated by antisemitism, no matter the attempt to contextualize them with geopolitical events 3,000 miles away,” writes EJC President Moshe Kantor in an op-ed in the Jerusalem Post.
Tuesday, June 8, 2021 |
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| ATTEMPTED ARSON ATTACK ON SYNAGOGUE IN ULM, GERMANY
A masked man was seen pouring liquid on the synagogue’s exterior wall, which was then set alight. The attack in the southern city of Ulm has been slammed as “vile.”
Monday, June 7, 2021 |
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| CDU WANTS TO DENY NATURALISATION TO ANTISEMITES
The CDU/CSU parliamentary group wants to change the citizenship law because of the growing number of antisemitic incidents. Those who incite against Jews should not be able to become Germans.
Monday, June 7, 2021 |
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| FRENCH COURT SENTENCES HOLOCAUST DENIER TO 5 YEARS FOR DEATH THREATS
A blogger who posted videos of himself calling for the murder of prominent French Jews was sentenced to five years in prison by a court in France.
Monday, June 7, 2021 |
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| ITALIAN POLICE ARREST NEO-NAZI GROUP THAT CALLED FOR ANTI-JEWISH ATTACKS
Italian police have dismantled a neo-Nazi group that allegedly spread antisemitic and racist propaganda on social media, police said.
Tuesday, June 8, 2021 |
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| HEADSTONES SMASHED AT JEWISH CEMETERIES IN UKRAINE AND ROMANIA
Jewish cemeteries have been vandalized in two separate incidents in Romania and Ukraine.
Tuesday, June 8, 2021 |
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| VIENNA UNIVERSITY OFFERS €7,500 SCHOLARSHIP FOR YOUNG JEWISH STUDIES RESEARCHERS
Young scholars specializing in Jewish studies now have a shot at a scholarship worth more than €7,500 from the University of Vienna.
Tuesday, June 8, 2021 |
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| SCHOOLS IN THE U.K. FAILING ON ANTISEMITISM COULD FLUNK INSPECTIONS
Schools failing to act on antisemitism could face flunking inspections in the U.K.
Tuesday, June 8, 2021 |
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| JEWS AND ARABS UNITE IN SOLIDARITY AT ACRE EVENT ON SHABBAT
Attendees, which included Christians, Muslims, Jews, business and restaurant owners as well as tourists, gathered in the promenade outside the Acre Police Station.
Monday, June 7, 2021 |
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| DAVID DUSHMAN, LAST SURVIVING AUSCHWITZ LIBERATOR, DIES AGED 98
David Dushman, the last surviving Soviet soldier involved in the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, has died. He was 98. May his memory be a blessing.
Monday, June 7, 2021 |
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