Simone Veil, French feminist and politician who survived the Holocaust, dies at 89
Simone Veil, a well-known French politician and Holocaust survivor, has died.
Veil, a former minister of health who in 2012 was awarded France’s highest honor, passed away this week at her home in Paris, her...
Vie privée, sécurité : les Français se disent plus prudents qu’avant sur internet
Les Français auraient-ils (enfin) saisi l’importance de protéger leurs données sur internet? C’est du moins que laisse croire une étude, réalisée par Médiamétrie et l’Institut Mines-Télécom. On y apprend que 91% des 2000 personnes interrogées...
Shalom Organisation of the Jews in Bulgaria condemns attack on Muslim leader’s family in...
Bulgarian Jewish organisations, in a statement on June 28, condemned the previous day’s assault on the wife and two daughters of Birali Birali, Deputy Chief Mufti of Bulgaria and one of the leaders of...
Jews and Muslims complain over reference to Holocaust in BBC online article
The BBC has removed a line from an online story on its news website which had caused offence to both Muslims and Jews.
Earlier today, the Board of Deputies issued a joint statement together with Fiyaz Mughal,...
Benjamin Allouche Chevalier de l’Ordre national du mérite
Benjamin Allouche, Président de la Communauté juive de Massy, Président du CCJ 91, Délégué du Crif dans l'Essonne, a reçu hier les insignes de Chevalier de l'Ordre national du mérite de la préfète Josiane...
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier accuses social media of spreading anti-Semitism
Steinmeier told the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper Wednesday that in addition to centuries-long anti-Semitism in Germany, anti-Jewish sentiment existed among some newly arrived Muslim migrants - and that all of it was being stoked by hate tirades...
A new study confirms evidence of Jewish ancestry among India’s Bene Israel
Of India’s three principal Jewish communities, the Bene Israel—who historically lived in the northwestern part of the country—have the most obscure origins. It was not until 1964 that the Israeli Chief Rabbinate accepted their...
Jews, Arabs in Israel get help to learn each other’s traditions
Although Jews and Arabs live together in Israel, they are largely estranged from each other and unaware of each others' customs and traditions.
But the Association for the Advancement of Civic Equity in Israel, better...
L’application Israélienne Waze va contribuer à accélérer les secours
Ce dernier comporte trois volets. D'abord, les incidents signalés à Waze seront transmis aux services d'urgence et intégrés dans leurs cartographies opérationnelles. Dans l'autre sens, les secours pourront transmettre aux utilisateurs de Waze des...
Jewish musicologist Richard Taruskin awarded Japanese ‘Nobel’
Musicologist Dr. Richard Taruskin has been awarded a 2017 Kyoto Prize, the Japanese Nobel.
Taruskin, a University of California, Berkeley professor emeritus, is the author of the six-volume The Oxford History of Western Music(2004). In...