Tag: Jewish community
Hungarian Jewish group that detects anti-Semitic activity to form security service
A Hungarian Jewish group that detects and fights anti-Semitism announced on Wednesday that it was creating a security service to monitor Budapest’s historic Jewish quarter.
“To prevent anti-Semitic atrocities, the Foundation for Action and Defense...
Conference in Kiev for JDC volunteers focuses on Jewish responsibility and identity
More than 250 Jewish volunteers and professionals from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s regional volunteer center network joined together in Kiev, Ukraine, for expert presentations, educational sessions and team-building exercises aimed at strengthening...
Morocco’s Jewish community to hold first democratic elections in five decades
Morocco’s Jewish community will hold its first elections in half a century to select its communal representatives.
King Mohammed VI instructed the Minister of the Interior to supervise elections for the positions, which have been...
Jewish community reacts to fire that ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris
Members of the Jewish community reacted with sadness to the massive fire that burst through the roof of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Monday and toppled its spire.
“Terrible images of the Cathedral of...
Jerusalem-based group ships two tons of matzah to Jewish community in Poland
The Jerusalem-based organization Shavei Israel shipped two tons of matzah from Israel this week, consisting of 1,692 boxes of Matzot Aviv, 45 boxes of handmade shmurah (“guarded”) matzah and 90 boxes of specially machine-made special shmurah matzah, announced Shavei Israel...
Guaidó seeks to restore ties between Venezuela and Israel
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó—recognized by numerous countries, including the United States and Israel as its interim leader amid pushback against Socialist leader Nicolás Maduro—said he is looking to renew the ties with Israel that his...
Charlottesville police refused to protect Synagogue from Nazis, so Jewish community hired armed security...
The Jewish community in Charlottesville hired armed security to protect its synagogue for the first time after local police declined to provide a guard for the site despite hundreds of white supremacists congregating on...
Polish Jewish community ask ruling party to denounce rising anti-Semitism
The leaders of Poland’s Jewish community write to the country’s most powerful politician, urging him to denounce rising anti-Semitism which they say is leaving them on edge.
Anna Chipczynska, the head of Warsaw’s Jewish community,...
History of Cork’s Jewish community to be commemorated
The Jews of Cork may have lost their synagogue last year but the story of how Leeside became home to a small, thriving Jewish community in the early half of the 20th century is...
Dominican Republic was WWII refuge for Jews
When world leaders met at the Evian Conference in France in 1938 to seek solutions for the growing numbers of Jews desperately seeking to escape the Nazis, only one country was willing to provide...