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Jewish groups to sue Belgian columnist for ‘stab a Jew’ article

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The Brussels-based European Jewish Association plans to file a lawsuit on Friday against a Belgium magazine columnist who wrote that he wants to “stab every Jew in the throat with a pointed knife” over...
Andrée Geulen-Herscovici with one of the Jewish child survivors of the Holocaust. Credit: Yad Vashem.

Belgian woman who saved Jewish children from the Holocaust dies at 100

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A schoolteacher and a member of the Belgian Resistance during World War II and the Holocaust, Andrée Geulen-Herscovici died on June 1 in Ixelles, Belgium, at the age of 100. As a member of...
Belgian Federal Parliament, Brussels, June 2010. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Belgium to label Israeli products from Judea and Samaria

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Belgium announced on Wednesday plans to label Israeli products made in Judea and Samaria, citing Brussel’s desire “to ensure human rights in the West Bank.” The European Union in 2015 instructed all member states to...
Soldiers of the Belgian army guarding the Brussels synagogue. Credit: Roman Yanushevsky/Shutterstock.

Belgian government decides to remove army protection from Jewish sites

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The head of the European Jewish Association (EJA) said on Wednesday that the Belgian government’s decision to remove army protection at Jewish institutions makes “zero sense” and leaves Jews “wide open with a target on...
The courthouse in Antwerp, Belgium, where Iranian diplomat Assadolah Assadi was convicted. Credit: Fred Romero via Wikimedia Commons.

Belgian court convicts Iranian diplomat of bomb plot in France

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A Belgian court sentenced an Iranian diplomat to 20 years in prison for his role in planning a 2018 bomb attack on the annual rally of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)...
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg, Nov. 18, 2006. Credit: Cédric Puisney via Wikimedia Commons.

EU court upholds Belgian ban on kosher ritual slaughter

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The European Court of Justice upheld a Belgian ban on religious slaughter, including kosher ritual slaughter without stunning, in a ruling released on Thursday. The E.U. court ruled that the laws requiring animals to be stunned enable “a fair...

Barozzi Veiga Wins Competition to Design and Renovate the Jewish Museum of Belgium

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Barozzi Veiga, in collaboration with Tab Architects and Barbara Van Der Wee Architects, has just won the competition for the renovation of the Jewish Museum of Belgium. Discrete yet present and integrated into the urban fabric, as the jury stated, the proposal...
A photo accompanying an article in a Belgium newspaper about global deaths due to the coronavirus. Source: Screenshot/The Brussels Times.

Israeli envoy asks Belgian news site to remove photo of masked ultra-Orthodox Jew

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Israeli Ambassador to Belgium Emmanuel Nahshon is accusing a major English-language news outlet in Belgium, The Brussels Times, of anti-Semitism after the paper used an image of an ultra-Orthodox Jew wearing a mask to illustrate...
European Court of Justice Advocate General Gerard Hogan. Source: Facebook.

EU court adviser calls for Belgian ritual-slaughter ban to be struck down

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The European Court of Justice should strike down a Belgian ban on kosher ritual slaughter without stunning, said an advocate general for the European Union’s highest court on Thursday. Gerard Hogan cited that the 2009 E.U. law...

EU court adviser calls for Belgian ritual-slaughter ban to be struck down

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The European Court of Justice should strike down a Belgian ban on kosher ritual slaughter without stunning, said an advocate general for the European Union’s highest court on Thursday. Gerard Hogan cited that the 2009 E.U. law...