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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 470

Ronald Lauder

World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder gives Pope Francis a 'Kishreinu' (Hebrew for 'Our Bond') document marking influence of the Catholic Church's Nostra Aetate declaration on Catholic-Jewish relations, October 19, 2023. (Shahar Azran/WJC via JTA)
October 24, 2023, 4:26 pm
In a first, a Jewish organization opens an office at the Vatican
World Jewish Congress president Ronald Lauder visits Pope Francis while inaugurating the organization’s ‘representative office to the Holy See’ late last week
By Gabe Friedman
Israeli rescue teams evacuate a wounded person near the southern city of Sderot on October 7, 2023, after the Palestinian terror group Hamas launched a large-scale surprise attack on Israel. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
October 8, 2023, 1:10 am
American Jewish groups offer broad support to Israel after assault from Gaza
After the early-morning infiltration attack, organizations from across the political spectrum release statements supporting the Jewish state and condemning Hamas
By Gavriel Fiske
Former defense minister Moshe Ya'alon speaks at a protest against the expected incoming government in Tel Aviv on December 17, 2022 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
August 14, 2023, 5:51 pm
In New York Times ad, prominent Netanyahu critics spurn unity government prospect
The text co-signed by ex-military chief Dan Halutz and former Mossad head Tamir Pardo is a response to a plan promoted in same newspaper by Ronald Lauder
By Canaan Lidor
Ronald S. Lauder in his home in 2022. (Shahar Azran/Neue Galerie New York)
February 11, 2023, 7:34 am
Ronald Lauder reaches deal with Jewish heirs for Klimt painting lost under Nazis
Jewish philanthropist will retain renowned Austrian artist’s piece after reaching agreement with family who said it went missing amid Nazi persecution in pre-war Europe
By Luke Tress
Ronald S. Lauder in his home in 2022. (Shahar Azran/Neue Galerie New York)
December 24, 2022, 6:54 am
A few of his favorite things: Ronald Lauder’s lifelong art collection now on display
500 pieces that make the Jewish philanthropist say ‘Oh my God’ can be seen at a Neue Galerie NY exhibition that replicates how they’re displayed in his own home
By Cathryn J. Prince
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) and Natan Sharansky in Kyiv, October 25, 2022 (courtesy Ukraine Presidential Office)
October 26, 2022, 2:51 am
Zelensky to Sharansky: Israel is one of few countries that can help defend our skies
Ukraine’s president meets members of Babyn Yar memorial board in Kyiv, pledges government support for expansion of museum
By Lazar Berman
'Honey Cake & Latkes: Recipes from the Old World by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Survivors' (Courtesy); Tova Friedman's kasha varnishkes (Ellen Silverman).
October 19, 2022, 3:18 am
Recipes in this Holocaust survivors’ cookbook nourished souls during and after WWII
All of the 110-plus dishes in the newly-released ‘Honey Cake & Latkes’ were provided by Auschwitz survivors who say discussing the recipes helped them live through their starvation
By Rich Tenorio
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New immigrants arriving in Israel
April 5, 2022, 8:13 pm
A $2.8 Million Bequest Helps Immigrants Start New Lives in Israel
The Moskowitzes had been forced to leave Russia when the monarchy fell and the Communists took over. Saul worked as a newsboy in his youth to help support his family.
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Rhonda Forman visited JNF-USA’s new Lauder Employment Center in Israel’s north (Credit: JNF-USA)
February 5, 2022, 8:59 pm
Giving a helping hand with a heart
I have been blessed to know and love members of my family who have special needs and the connection to ADI Negev was natural.
By Jennifer Korn
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (left) and President Isaac Herzog attend a welcome ceremony ahead of their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday, October 5, 2021. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)
December 15, 2021, 8:26 pm
Ukraine President Zelensky: “We know what it means to defend one’s own state with weapons in hand.”
Israeli President Herzog: “Antisemitism ultimately lurks into other forms of intolerance and hate. It poisons our society and damages us all.”
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at the Jerusalem Post conference in Jerusalem, October 12, 2021 (Kobi Gideon, GPO)
October 12, 2021, 1:05 pm
Bennett warns: There are non-peaceful ways to deal with Iran’s nuclear program
PM calls on world powers to hold Tehran accountable; World Jewish Congress head says Likud aiding Tehran by refusing to cooperate with new government
By Lazar Berman
File: French Jews hold Israeli flags as they demonstrate against UNESCO, near the cultural agency's Paris headquarters, July 17, 2017. (Serge Attal/Flash90)
July 29, 2021, 10:24 am
Lapid said weighing Israel’s return to UNESCO, over 2 years after it left
Foreign minister reportedly instructs officials to review situation; source says any move will be coordinated with Washington, which also left agency in 2019 over apparent bias
By ToI Staff
Protesters attend a Palestine solidarity rally against board members of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) who they accuse of supporting Israeli military efforts, outside MoMA in Manhattan, New York on May 21, 2021 (Ed JONES / AFP)
May 26, 2021, 4:58 pm
Hundreds protest New York’s Museum of Modern Art board’s Israel ties
Activists accuse members Ron Lauder, Leon Black, Steven Tananbaum, others of ‘supporting apartheid rule’ and ‘artwashing’ the ‘occupation of Palestine’
By ToI Staff
A view of the new notification Facebook will use to combat Holocaust denial. (Facebook via JTA)
January 27, 2021, 12:52 pm
Stepping up efforts, Facebook debuts fact check box to combat Holocaust denial
Those searching social media giant’s pages for information about the genocide of European Jews will now be sent to a website curated by the World Jewish Congress and UNESCO
By Ron Kampeas
A swastika and the words 'Shoa blabla' on the stele of the Jardin du Souvenir (Garden of Memories) after anti-Semitic graffiti was discovered in the Champagne-au-Mont-d'Or cemetery in France, on February 20, 2019. (Jeff Pachoud/AFP)
December 2, 2020, 6:50 pm
EU urges ‘strong and systematic judicial response’ to rising anti-Semitism
Israel, Jewish groups hail ‘significant step forward’ as Council of the EU adopts new declaration, which also calls for ‘new ways to remember the Holocaust in a meaningful way’
By Raphael Ahren
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