Tag: WJC
WJC mourns passing of former French President Jacques Chirac
The World Jewish Congress mourns the passing of former President of the French Republic Jacques Chirac, who spearheaded his country’s reckoning with its role in the Holocaust. Chirac passed away last Saturday September 6.
“Jacques...
World Jewish Congress calls on OAS to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization
WASHINGTON - World Jewish Congress CEO and Executive Vice President Robert Singer on Thursday urged the Organization of American States to formally designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. In an address to the Inter-American...
World Jewish Congress and Chelsea F.C. kick off strategic partnership to put a stop...
NEW YORK – The World Jewish Congress and Chelsea Football Club have kicked off a strategic global partnership under the banner a “Red Card for Hate”, aimed at combating the widespread phenomenon of anti-Semitism...
WJC welcomes UNESCO consensus on two decisions related to Israel as ‘important step in...
NEW YORK – The World Jewish Congress (WJC) on Thursday welcomed the consensus reached by the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to adopt two texts agreed to...
‘Israel is an example of a model state,’ Bulgarian president tells WJC forum
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev said Thursday at a breakfast meeting organized by the Israel Council on Foreign Relations (ICFR), which operates under the auspices of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), that the Jewish community in Bulgaria...
Foreign ambassadors break matzah in Israel two weeks before Passover
More than 70 ambassadors and senior foreign diplomats sat down to a festive “model seder” dinner in Tel Aviv, organized by the Israel Project and the World Jewish Congress.
The pre-Passover seder, taking place for...
WJC joins Macedonia Jewish community in marking 75th anniversary of Nazi deportation
The official commemoration ceremony in Skopje, Macedonia was held in the presence of the Macedonian and Bulgarian prime ministers, and followed three days of separate events marking the March 10, 1943 rescue of 48,000 Jews in...
WJC welcomes landmark agreement to combat anti-Semitism reached between Spanish government and Jewish community
NEW YORK - The World Jewish Congress on Thursday welcomed a landmark agreement reached between Spain’s Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport and the Federation of Jewish Communities in Spain (FCJE), aimed at combating...
World Jewish Congress calls Poland’s new Holocaust law ‘historical obfuscation’ and an ‘attack on...
NEW YORK – The World Jewish Congress has strongly objected to a proposed new Polish law which would criminalize suggestions that Poland was responsible for Nazis crimes, calling it “an act of historical obfuscation and...
Lauder thanks Trump for critical message on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
NEW YORK - World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder has praised US President Donald Trump’s “poignant and respectful” tribute to the six million Jews who were murdered at the hands of the Nazis...