WJC

Reuven Rivlin and Antonio Guterres, left, meet in Jerusalem, Israel on Aug. 28, 2017. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

World Jewish Congress honors UN boss Antonio Guterres for efforts to end anti-Israel bias

The “bizarre fixation on the Jewish state” is dangerous to Israel and demeaning to the international forum, WJC President Ronald Lauder said.

‘Thought of revenge became source of strength,’ Holocaust survivor says at Auschwitz commemoration

Poland’s president, the only politician to speak, vowed to “always nurture the memory of and guard the truth about what happened here.”

Bulgaria opens 1st Jewish school in over 20 years

The Ronald S. Lauder Day School in Sofia will replace as the community’s go-to address for education a public institution that offered Hebrew-language classes.

Global

Jewish groups in Ukraine trade accusations over Yiddish conference

Culture

Budapest soccer club honors coach killed by Nazi collaborators

Global

Poland pledges $28 million for Warsaw Jewish cemetery restoration

Global

Holocaust revisionism in Croatia not just a Jewish fight, Jewish group says

Global

In rare move, Belarus Jews sound alarm over cemetery construction plan

Global

Billionaire unjustly jailed in Putin’s Russia to represent Jewish ex-Soviet communities

Global

UN secretary-general: Denial of Israel’s right to exist is ‘modern form of anti-Semitism’

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