Tag: Belgium
Child prodigy in Belgium ponders further university studies in Israel
A 10-year-old child prodigy from Belgium is considering furthering his academics in Israel.
Laurent Simons and his parents recently met with Emmanuel Nahshon, ambassador of Israel to Belgium and Luxembourg, to hear about Israel’s opportunities...
For Antwerp leader Cathy Berx, Israel represents ‘the summary of humankind’
With the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, world leaders and particularly European leaders came to Jerusalem not just to commemorate the attempts of Jewish genocide that took place on their soil, but...
UNESCO removes Belgium carnival with anti-Semitic float from heritage list
UNESCO withdrew on Friday an annual carnival in the Belgian city of Aalst from the organization’s List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity over repeated charges of anti-Semitism.
UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding...
Belgian BDS activist to be awarded prize at Holocaust memorial
Belgian Catholic NGO Pax Christi Vlaanderen (Flanders) will award its “ambassador for peace” prize to Brigitte Herremans, a leading anti-Israel activist and former employee of the BDS-supporting organization Broederlijk Delen, on Dec. 12. The...
Belgium’s first female prime minister is also Jewish
Belgium’s first female prime minister, Sophie Wilmès, is Jewish.
On Sunday, she replaced Charles Michel and will lead an interim government until a coalition is formed. Michel left for a European Union position after his...
EU Jewish leader calls on UNESCO to act against anti-Semitic caricatures at festival
A European Jewish leader is calling on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, to act against organizers of the Carnival of Aalst in Belgium for its plan to use anti-Semitic caricatures...
Israeli embassy in Belgium, European Jewish Association criticize anti-Semitic sign-language gesture
The Israeli embassy in Belgium this week blasted an online dictionary of Flemish sign language for using a hooked nose to describe the word “Jew.”
The Israeli embassy on Twitter expressed “shock and dismay” regarding the “ugly...
Herzog calls Belgian ritual-slaughter ban ‘infringement’ of religious freedom
Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog sent a letter on Monday to the president of the Belgian regional parliament of Wallonia in an appeal to lift the ban on kosher ritual slaughter without stunning in...
Jews in Belgium outraged after daily paper prints anti-Semitic, anti-Israel article
Belgium’s Jews are in an uproar and have filed a police complaint after a Belgian journalist wrote in an article that “there is no promised land, only stolen land.”
The journalist, Dimitri Verhulst, writing in...
First Orthodox Jew elected to serve in Belgian parliament
BRUSSELS—38-year-old Michael Freilich, former editor-in-chief of Joods Actueel in Antwerp, a Jewish magazine founded by his grandfather Louis Davids, was elected to a seat in the Belgian parliament on Sunday.
Freilich, who ran on the list of...