Tag: European Jewry
Former Moscow chief rabbi, European Jewry win Charlemagne Prize
The western German city of Aachen, which has awarded an annual Charlemagne Prize for nearly 75 years, has recognized Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt and European Jewry with the 2024 prize, named for the medieval Frankish...
Conference of European Rabbis to open new Munich headquarters
The Conference of European Rabbis, which represents about 1,000 Orthodox European rabbis, will open a new Center for Jewish Life in the Bavarian capital of Munich. The German state will fund the new building,...
‘A lost Jewish history reclaimed’: New digital archive reveals pre-Holocaust world
A lost Jewish history has been reclaimed and is set to be unveiled on Monday. For the first time, more than 4.1 million pages of original books, artifacts, records, manuscripts and documents—cultural survivors of...
Europe’s Jews have an uncertain future, but a future nonetheless
The continent of Europe ceased to be the center of Jewish life more than a century ago, when it yielded that status to the increasingly affluent, influential Jewish community in the United States, joined,...
Remembering two forgotten heroes: Ben Hecht and Peter Bergson
On Nov. 25, 1942, a five-paragraph article, buried on page 10 of The New York Times, confirmed the deaths at that time of 2 million Jews in Nazi-controlled Europe and warned of the perilous plight...
European Parliament head calls for unity ‘against religious discrimination’
European Parliament president David Sassoli told the Conference of European Rabbis (CER), the primary rabbinical alliance in Europe, on Wednesday that amid “the devastating rise of terrorist attacks in many European nations … we...
Bulgarian prime minister receives European Jewry organization’s highest award
National Coalition for Supporting European Jewry chairman Daniel Rubin and CEO Mark Levin presented the organization’s highest award to Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.
It comes “in recognition of his visionary leadership in foreign affairs...