WJC – News Update

by Comunidad Judía · 12 Tammuz 5777 – 6 July, 2017

News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 06 July 2017

Hungarian Jews urge government to halt anti-Soros campaign due to anti-Semitic undertones

In letter to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, MAZSIHISZ President András Heisler writes: “This campaign is not openly anti-Semitic however it is very much able to raise uncontrolled anti-Semitic anger. “

A history of the World Jewish Congress is a portrait of modern Jewry – JTA

“’The World Jewish Congress, 1936-2016′ is not just a history of the preeminent international Jewish human rights organization,” writes WJC General Counsel and book editor Menachem Rosensaft. “It is a reflection of the tensions, energies and accomplishments that have characterized global Jewish activism in the 80 years since WJC came into existence.”

Dutch Jewish organization signs agreement with minister to safeguard the continuation of shechita in the country – European Jewish Press

06 Jul 2017 The agreement, an annex to the 2012 treaty regarding slaughter according to religious rights, was signed by the NIK President Jonathan Soesman and General Director Ruben Vis, together with representatives of the slaughter industry and the Muslim community. READ MORE »

Ivanka Trump visits Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial in Warsaw – JTA

06 Jul 2017 Ivanka Trump, a convert to Judaism, was at the Monument for the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw early Thursday afternoon, shortly before her father laid a wreath and began a speech at the nearby Warsaw Uprising Memorial, which celebrates the acts of resistance fighters from the general population of Poland who launched a bloody rebellion against the Germans in 1944. READ MORE »