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World Jewish Congress President Ron Lauder on October 13, 2014. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90/ File)
WJC chief slams Polish PM: ‘Poles profiteered from Jewish assets for decades’
By AFP and TOI staff
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
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
A member of the Jewish community looks at broken tombstones after a ceremony at the Jewish cemetery in Sarre-Union, eastern France, on February 17, 2015, following the desecration of around 300 tombs. (AFP/Patrick Hertzog)
December 10, 2018, 3:43 pm
Jewish groups say EU anti-Semitism poll is ‘final warning,’ urge Europe to act
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
By TOI staff
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (C) visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on July 20, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)
December 7, 2018, 4:18 pm
Hungary’s prime minister says World Jewish Congress head has left-wing agenda
Victor Orban accuses Ronald Lauder of applying a ‘clear left-wing and liberal bias’ for demanding he condemn an anti-Semitic image in a pro-government magazine
By JTA
Illustrative photo of a press presentation on the occasion of the restitution of the 1929 painting 'Begonias' by Emil Nolde in Erfurt, Germany, November 12, 2018. (AP/Jens Meyer)
November 26, 2018, 8:13 pm
Germany marks 20 years of agreement on Nazi-looted art
World Jewish Congress head Ronald Lauder says Berlin has been ‘exemplary’ in restoring cultural objects, but several other countries that vowed to do same have yet to deliver
By AP
A Jewish man rallies in front of the headquarters of the AMIA (Argentine Israelite Mutual Association), in Buenos Aires on January 21, 2015. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO / Alejandro PAGNI)
October 9, 2018, 11:51 pm
Anti-Semitism not a major concern for Latin American Jews, survey finds
Polled leaders say biggest issues facing communities are internal division and leadership followed by assimilation, with most believing it’s safe to live as a Jew
By JTA
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