WJC – News Update
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Comunidad Judía
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12 Tammuz 5777 – 6 July, 2017
News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 06 July 2017
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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. “
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“’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.” |
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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 »
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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 »
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06 Jul 2017 In addition to anti-Israel antisemitism, the bishop cited verbal attacks on members of the Jewish community during a lecture as a reason for his break from the NGO. READ MORE » |
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05 Jul 2017 Over the past few years Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has placed unprecedented and extraordinary focus on improving Israel’s relations with African countries, writes WJC Jewish Diplomat Gabriel Rosenberg. READ MORE » |
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05 Jul 2017 ‘The rights and freedoms that we enjoy in America should not extend to those who helped facilitate the death of so many innocent people,’ writes Assemblyman Hikind. READ MORE » |

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