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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

Elan Carr, the US envoy against anti-Semitism, and his EU counterpart Katharinas von Schnurbein at a summit meeting in Bucharest, Romania, on June 17, 2019. (Cnaan Liphshiz via JTA)

June 17, 2019, 11:11 pm

Romania hosts inaugural summit for global anti-Semitism envoys

Amid sharp uptick in anti-Jewish incidents worldwide, first-ever conference for government coordinators attended by over a dozen countries

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. (CC BY-SA Thorkild Tylleskar/Wikipedia)

May 22, 2019, 11:03 pm

In first, Germany votes against anti-Israel measure at World Health Organization

Israeli ambassador thanks Berlin for ‘significant and principled stand’; resolution blaming Israel for poor health conditions in Palestinian areas passes with overwhelming majority

By Raphael Ahren

New Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven addresses the press after his government declaration at the Swedish parliament in Stockholm, on October 3, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/TT News Agency/Janerik Henriksson)

May 22, 2019, 6:31 pm

Swedish PM vows to outlaw neo-Nazi groups, boost security for Jews

Following query by World Jewish Congress, Stefan Lofven condemns anti-Semitic marches in country, says ‘Jewish life is an integral part of Swedish society’

By TOI staff

Polish MP Arkadiusz Mularczyk, who said that a 1953 government agreement with Berlin about war reparations was not legally binding. (YouTube screenshot)

May 21, 2019, 7:28 pm

Polish official says country should seek German reparations for WWII

Ruling party lawmaker asserts no records show Poland ever renouncing its right to do so, even as Warsaw refuses to discuss Jewish restitution

By Agencies and TOI staff

World Jewish Congress President Ron Lauder on October 13, 2014. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90/ File)

May 20, 2019, 7:54 pm

WJC chief slams Polish PM: ‘Poles profiteered from Jewish assets for decades’

Ronald Lauder says Polish Morawiecki’s comments that WWII restitution would be a win for Hitler are ‘alarming in the extreme,’ urges him to retract them

By AFP and TOI staff

Screen capture from a video broadcast by the Al Jazeera network which questions the established Holocaust narrative. (Twitter)

May 19, 2019, 2:06 pm

Al Jazeera pulls video claiming Jews exploited Holocaust to create Israel

Segment published by AJ+ channel questions narrative, links Zionism to Nazi ideology; Foreign Ministry protests ‘worst kind of pernicious evil’ which ‘brainwashes’ Arab youth

By Stuart Winer

Children using sticks to beat an effigy of Judas on Good Friday, April 19, 2019, in the town of Pruchnik, Poland. (Hubert Lewkowicz / AFP)

April 24, 2019, 1:02 am

Poland opens hate crime probe into beating, burning of Jewish effigy

Video of anti-Semitic Easter revival in which kids take sticks to Judas doll sparks outrage among both Poles and Jews; minister calls ritual ‘idiotic, pseudo-religious chutzpah’

By TOI staff and Agencies

A resident of the small town of Pruchnik in southeast Poland beats up an effigy of Judah Iscariot featuring a long nose and ultra-Orthodox sidecurls and brimmed hat, on April 19, 2019. (Screenshot: Twitter)

April 22, 2019, 10:32 am

Leading Jewish group outraged at beating of Judas effigy in Poland

WJC says Good Friday ritual that cast New Testament villain as a stereotypical Jew was a ‘ghastly revival of medieval anti-Semitism’

By AP and TOI staff

Members of the Polish neo-Nazi Pride and Modernity group celebrating Adolf Hitler's birthday in an undated video. (Screen capture: TVN24)

April 19, 2019, 8:25 pm

WJC urges European lawmakers to ban neo-Nazi events marking Hitler birthday

World Jewish Congress says picnics and hiking trips among events planned across the continent to mark 130 years since birth of Nazi leader

By TOI staff

Bystanders look on as flames and smoke billow from the roof at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris early on April 16, 2019. (Zakaria ABDELKAFI / AFP)

April 16, 2019, 6:45 am

World expresses horror, sorrow as Paris gem Notre Dame ravaged by blaze

Israeli leaders join international community in showing solidarity with French people in wake of devastating fire at iconic cathedral

By Agencies and TOI staff

The Euro-Asian Jewish Congress gala dinner at the Dan Arcadia Hotel in Herzliya, March 18, 2019. (The Times of Israel)

March 27, 2019, 6:37 am

At swanky philanthropy conference, politics is the elephant in the room

The Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, which recently held a two-day conference in Herzliya, may be the most influential organization most Israelis have never heard of

By Simona Weinglass

Far-right activists march with torches during a march to commemorate pro-Nazi Bulgarian general Hristo Lukov in Sofia on February 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)

February 16, 2019, 4:05 am

World Jewish Congress concerned about neo-Nazism in Europe

Ahead of Bulgaria march to honor pro-Hitler general, Jewish group warns that Nazi ideology is ‘still and continuously exalted’ in parts of the continent

By AP

A synagogue in Sofia. (photo credit: CC-BY Rachel Titiriga, Flickr)

January 21, 2019, 12:21 am

Assailant hurls stones at Sofia synagogue, as others look on

Bulgarian Jewish leader says passersby did nothing to stop brazen attack or apprehend culprit

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Le Train Bleu (CC BY-SA 4.0, Gryffindor, Wikipedia)

January 4, 2019, 8:00 am

Employees at famous Paris eatery photographed making anti-Semitic salute

Le Train Bleu announces disciplinary measures against workers who made quenelle gesture following uproar from Jewish groups

By TOI staff