European Jewish Congress- Newsletter EJC Newsletter 7 April 2021
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Comunidad Judía
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30 Nisan 5781 – 12 April, 2021
| “THE PANDEMIC HAS CREATED THE SOCIAL CONDITIONS WHERE ANTISEMITISM THRIVES,” MOSHE KANTOR WARNED AT THE RELEASE OF ANTISEMITISM WORLDWIDE REPORT
The significant rise in extremism and the widespread increase in antisemitic conspiracy theories over the last year could have profound effects on Jewish communities in a post-Pandemic world, said EJC President Dr. Moshe Kantor at the release of the Annual Report on Antisemitism Worldwide 2020, by the Kantor Center at Tel Aviv University.
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 |
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| ADDRESS BY DR MOSHE KANTOR AT THE RELEASE OF THE ANTISEMITISM WORLDWIDE REPORT 2020
EJC President Dr. Moshe Kantor delivered a message at the release of the Antisemitism Worldwide Report 2020 by the Kantor Center at Tel Aviv University.
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 |
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| JEWISH CONFEDERATION OF UKRAINE TO PUBLISH BOOK ON UKRAINIAN RIGHTEOUS AMONG THE NATIONS
In honour of the 80th anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy, the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine (JCU) will publish a book on Righteous Among the Nations, who saved Jews during the Holocaust in Ukrainian territory, with the support of Yad Vashem.
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 |
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| DISTURBING ANTISEMITIC SCENE FOUND OUTSIDE JEWISH CEMETERY IN DENMARK
Red paint, baby dolls and antisemitic flyers were left outside a Jewish cemetery in Aalborg, Denmark in an apparent follow-up to a similar incident in Sweden on Passover.
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 |
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| SARCELLES JEWISH RESIDENTS CATCH AND OVERPOWER SUSPECTED STABBER FLEEING THE SCENE
Jewish residents of the Paris suburb of Sarcelles chased and overpowered a man whom witnesses said tried to stab three Jews, then handed him over to police.
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 |
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| DUTCH MATZAH FACTORY GIFTS PASSOVER CRACKER TO 35,000 SCHOOLCHILDREN
Some 35,000 schoolchildren in the Netherlands got free matzah from the only matzah factory in the country as part of the bakery’s nearly 50-year-old tradition.
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 |
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| HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DESECRATED NEAR ST. PETERSBURG
In Puschkin, Leningrad region, a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust “Formula of Sorrow” was vandalized with offensive inscription in white paint.
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 |
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| JHE: CENTURIES-OLD MATZEVOT FROM THE OLD JEWISH CEMETERY IN BRATISLAVA DISCOVERED
In a remarkable discovery, hundreds of gravestones from the destroyed old Jewish cemetery in Bratislava have come to light.
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 |
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| THE LAST KNOWN JEW IN AFGHANISTAN IS LEAVING
The man who has been known as the last Jew in Afghanistan for well over a decade is leaving for Israel, fearing that the U.S. military’s promise to leave the country will leave a vacuum to be filled with radical groups such as the Taliban.
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 |
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| YAD VASHEM OPENS EXHIBITION 80 YEARS SINCE OPERATION BARBAROSSA
A new online exhibition commemorating 80 years since the beginning of the large-scale mass murder of Jews during the Holocaust has been created by Yad Vashem ahead of Yom HaShoah.
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 |
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