The 8,000-member Jewish community here now has two American rabbis with the appointment of Arthur Lavinsky of New York City. The Chief Rabbi is Morton Narrowe, from Philadelphia, who has served the congregation since 1965. He leads the Conservative services at the Great Synagogue on Friday evenings and Saturday mornings. Lavinsky will concentrate on the… More ▸
The only two European-born members of Congress are sponsoring a resolution to honor Rooul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who is credited with saving some 90,000 Hungarian Jews from Nazi death camps during World War II. Rep. Ted Weiss (D. NY), who fled from Hungary with his family in 1938, and Sen. Rudy Boschwitz (R. Minn.),… More ▸
An international hearing in the case of the missing Swedish diplomat, Raoul Wallenberg, which was to have begun in Stockholm tomorrow has been called off until the fall because of a strike of public employes that has shut down all communications and transportation in Sweden, including incoming and outgoing flights. Lena Biorck-Kaplan of New York,… More ▸
Sweden will host two events of particular significance to world Jewry — the international tribunal in the case of Rool Wallenberg, to be held here May 1-4; and the bicentennial celebration of the Jewish community of Goteborg, Sweden’s second largest city, to be held May 9-12. Elie Wiesel, chairman of President Carter’s Commission on the… More ▸
The Swedish Jewish community has projected a broad-based educational program on the Holocaust that it hopes to have integrated into Sweden’s general school system. The program will be based on a successful year-long educational effort led by the Swedish Jewish community during the past year. The program, outlined in a report to the European office… More ▸
International hearings will be held in Stockholm May 2-3 to examine new information about the fate of Raoul Wallenberg, the long-missing Swedish diplomat, Guy von Dardel, Wallenberg’s half-brother, reported Friday at a press conference at the Swedish Cultural Center here. Von Dardel said he had been in Israel and Moscow investigating new leads and interviewing… More ▸
The Jewish community of Stockholm packed the synagogue of the Swedish capital Sunday night to pay homage to Raoul Wallenberg, the war-time savior of 100,000 Hungarian Jews. An audience of more than 800 heard the Bishop of Stockholm and Bruno Kaplan, president of the Stockholm Jewish community, describe Wallenberg’s exploit while a diplomat in Budapest… More ▸
Premier Menachem Begin of Israel is expected to be asked to help solve the mystery of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who may still be imprisoned in the Soviet Union, 34 years after his abduction by the Red Army. Wallenberg’s close relatives are flying to Jerusalem this weekend following fruitless attempts by the Swedish government to… More ▸
Israel Bashevis Singer, winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature, said here Thursday that he intends to “say something” in Yiddish when he accepts his award in Stockholm next month. The famed Yiddish writer, who was feted for 90 minutes by the American Jewish Committee and its magazine Present Tense, told the 125 people… More ▸
The United Kingdom and Sweden strongly condemned today the hijacking on June 27 of an Air France air bus and the subsequent holding of hostages at Entebbe Airport. They called on the UN to adopt measures against terrorism and hijacking. Addressing the Security Council, which resumed debate this morning on the Israeli rescue operation in… More ▸
