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Herzog said to ask Macron to help remove sanctions on Putin-linked oligarch Kantor

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 16:48:46 +0000

Russia-born Moshe Kantor resigned last year as president of the European Jewish Congress after facing sanctions for his ties to the regime

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With their planes grounded, Russia’s Jewish oligarchs see consequences of Putin ties

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 04:52:35 +0000

With no end in sight to invasion of Ukraine, effect of sanctions ripples through world of Jewish philanthropy

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Sanctions on Russian oligarchs bite into funding for Jewish institutions

Tue, 26 Apr 2022 21:21:11 +0000

Many educational foundations in Israel rely on the philanthropy of Jewish billionaires, some of whom have close ties with both Putin and Jerusalem

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European Jewish Congress head Moshe Kantor resigns following UK sanctions

Fri, 08 Apr 2022 22:14:28 +0000

Resignation comes after Kantor was included in a list of 8 'oligarchs' sanctioned for ties to Putin regime; EJC to convene in coming days to decide future

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UK sanctions EJC chief Moshe Kantor in latest round of measures against Russia

Wed, 06 Apr 2022 20:21:13 +0000

US to sanction Russia's top banks and two daughters of Putin following alleged war crimes in Bucha; Kyiv warns residents in the east to evacuate ahead of feared assault

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Yad Vashem ‘deplores’ Russian invasion, condemns use of Nazi rhetoric by both sides

Sun, 27 Feb 2022 16:14:39 +0000

Israel's Holocaust museum, which has received major donations from Putin-tied oligarchs, refrains from singling out Moscow in its statement, on 4th day after fighting began

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Yad Vashem: Blame us, not Russia, for ‘unfortunate’ video at Holocaust event

Wed, 12 Feb 2020 13:48:06 +0000

'There were no external attempts to influence or exert pressure on Yad Vashem,' says a spokesman, though 'regrettably there were a few historical inaccuracies'

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Educate, legislate, enforce: Full text of Moshe Kantor’s Holocaust Forum speech

Thu, 23 Jan 2020 16:44:26 +0000

At the current rate, 'in only 30 years there could be no Jews in Europe,' president of the World Holocaust Forum Foundation says at Yad Vashem

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Putin: Nazis’ European accomplices were often ‘crueler than their masters’

Thu, 23 Jan 2020 14:52:48 +0000

At Yad Vashem, Russian leader claims 40% of Jews killed in genocide were Soviet citizens; event organizer warns there 'could be no Jews left in Europe by 2050'

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As Holocaust memorial begins, organizers deny event becoming politicized

Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:59:18 +0000

Moshe Kantor claims world forum has succeeded in using Holocaust remembrance to highlight 'the crisis of anti-Semitism,' adds, 'It's 'a shame that Poland is not part of that'

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Everything you must know about the biggest diplomatic event in Israel’s history

Wed, 22 Jan 2020 05:41:21 +0000

Who's coming and who's boycotting the event? Who will be allowed to speak? Will Putin sit next to Pence? What are the leaders doing in their spare time? And what's on the menu?

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Director of Auschwitz Museum slams holding of World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem

Wed, 22 Jan 2020 04:35:14 +0000

Piotr Cywinski accuses organizers of trying to replace annual ceremony in Poland; fumes that 'it's simply so provocative and immature that I do not find the words to comment on it'

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Europe’s Jewish population could vanish due to anti-Semitism, says Jewish leader

Thu, 09 Jan 2020 18:04:39 +0000

Ahead of Jerusalem gathering to mark Auschwitz liberation, European Jewish Congress's Moshe Kantor says Jew hatred best fought with 'fear' of a future tragedy

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Jewish groups say EU anti-Semitism poll is ‘final warning,’ urge Europe to act

Mon, 10 Dec 2018 13:43:34 +0000

Umbrella organizations say European leadership needs to take urgent steps after massive survey finds 90% of European Jews sense increasing levels of hatred toward them

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Hungary’s Holocaust museum triggers bitter conflict between Jewish groups

Tue, 18 Sep 2018 20:06:45 +0000

Most want nothing to do with museum, now being run by Chabad, amid dispute over its chief Mara Schmidt, a historian who has equated Nazism and communism

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