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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 491

Robert Singer

Vladimir Kritsman, left, the principal of Kyrgyzstan's only Jewish school, Pri Etz Haim, gives a tour to EU Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Eduard Auer on June 27, 2022. (EU in Kyrgyzstan)
July 6, 2022, 4:06 am
Inside the international campaign to save Kyrgyzstan’s only Jewish school
When Pri Etz Haim-Ort was served an eviction notice, a Jewish leader got Israel, the EU, US and others to pressure local authorities to come to the aid of the tiny community
By Judah Ari Gross
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Credit Jewish Confederation of Ukraine
December 13, 2021, 10:53 pm
Top leaders to celebrate Israel-Ukraine ties, discuss global challenges at third-annual Kyiv Jewish Forum
Katharina von Schnurbein speaks at a conference of anti-Semitism envoys in Bucharest, Romania, June 17, 2019. (Shahar Azran/World Jewish Congress via JTA)
June 21, 2019, 6:27 am
The EU’s ‘indefatigable heroine’ in the fight against anti-Semitism
Since Katharina von Schnurbein became union’s first coordinator on combating anti-Semitism, news on racism has ballooned. This, she says, may be a sign her efforts are paying off
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Bulgarian nationalists dressed in military uniforms take part in a procession to commemorate Gen. Hristo Lukovin, in Sofia, February 14, 2015. (Valentina Petrova/AP)
February 7, 2018, 2:31 pm
Jewish group petitions Bulgarian PM to ban neo-Nazi parade
World Jewish Congress urges active steps to prevent Lukov March, which commemorates anti-Semitic wartime leader
By Stuart Winer
The railway track leading to the infamous ‘Death Gate’ at the Auschwitz II Birkenau extermination camp on November 13, 2014, in Oswiecim, Poland. (JTA/Christopher Furlong/ Getty Images/File)
January 28, 2018, 8:27 pm
World Jewish Congress slams Polish Holocaust bill’s ‘historical obfuscation’
While saying Poles ‘understandably sensitive’ about term ‘Polish death camps,’ WJC CEO says legislation amounts to a ‘whitewash’ of history
By ToI Staff and AFP
An image of some of the anti-Semitic posts found in the WJC study, an excerpt of which was released on March 24, 2017. (Courtesy WJC)
March 24, 2017, 7:33 pm
Anti-Semitic post uploaded to social media every 83 seconds
World Jewish Congress and Israeli monitoring firm examine millions of 2016 online posts, finds Twitter is by far most hate speech-filled network
By ToI Staff and JTA
Thousands of pupils at World ORT schools participated in the World Jewish Congress #WeRemember campaign ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, 2017. (World Jewish Congress)
January 27, 2017, 11:37 am
Global initiatives virtually commemorate the Holocaust — in a very real way
Meaningful social media campaigns by Israel’s Yad Vashem and the World Jewish Congress make history and remembrance accessible to all ages
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Raisa Maistrenko visits the Babi Yar monument in Kiev on September 23, 2016, a few days before Ukraine marks the 75th anniversary of the September 1941 mass executions of Jews by the Nazis during WWII. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
October 3, 2016, 1:09 am
75 years after Babi Yar massacre, Ukraine reexamines its dark history
In 1941 nearly 34,000 Jews were gunned down by Nazis and local police in a Kiev ravine. Today, the former Soviet republic is opening up about its role in the Holocaust
By Tamar Pileggi
A Kommando Freisler album cover (YouTube screen capture)
May 7, 2016, 6:12 pm
WJC: YouTube’s failure to remove neo-Nazi videos ‘beggars belief’
Jewish group blasts ‘scandalous’ behavior by Google in ongoing campaign against ‘obscene, easily accessible’ content
By ToI Staff and AFP
Illustrative photo of a neo-Nazi (CC BY-SA 3.0, by Froofroo, Wikimedia Commons)
May 2, 2016, 9:02 pm
World Jewish Congress slams YouTube over neo-Nazi videos
‘Do you really believe that songs glorifying, or inciting to, the mass murder of Jews fall under freedom of speech?’ asks executive VP in letter
By AFP
Information Officer for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Rolando Gomez holds the report of the Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza conflict next to Commission chairperson Mary McGowan Davis, center, and Commission member Doudou Diene during a press conference on their report on June 22, 2015 at the United Nations Office in Geneva. (AFP / FABRICE COFFRINI)
June 23, 2015, 1:20 am
US Jewish organizations deride UN report on Gaza war
Groups dismiss Human Rights Council review as ‘immoral,’ reject ‘moral symmetry’ between Israel, terrorist Hamas
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
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