The European Commission has expressed regrets after Switzerland voted Sunday to restrict EU immigration in a ‘’popular referendum’’ and warned it will review its ties with the non-EU member.
The head of the Jewish community of Thessaloniki on Thursday announced that a chair in Jewish Studies will be created at the city's Aristotle University, the country's largest academic institution, starting in the fall.
Poland’s Ombudsman, Prof. Irena Lipowicz, has approached Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on the indisputable need to start appropriate legislative work to comprehensively regulate ritual slaughter in the country.
The Norwegian government has never considered banning circumcision and ‘’it never will,’’ is the message of Norway's Foreign Minister conveyed Wednesday by the Ambassador to Belgium, Niels Engelschion, to a Jewish delegation during a meeting in Brussels.
February 2, 2014 -- New York -- AJC applauds U.S. and EU support for Ukrainians protesting against their increasingly repressive government. U.S Secretary of State John Kerry and EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton, addressing the Munich Security Conference, condemned the Ukrainian government crackdown on demonstrators gathered in central Kiev.
On January 24, 2014, a lecture titled “The Historical and Cultural Heritage of Ukrainian Jews” was read for the activists of the Euromaidan civil protests. The lecturer was a Jewish studies and Kyiv history expert Igor Golfman, better known under his nickname Ezra Knizhnik (Ezra the Scribe).
According to Ambassador of Israel to Ukraine Reuven Dinel, anti-Semitism in Ukraine is decisively dealt with at the highest level. The ambassador spoke on the subject in a TV show aired by the “112 Ukraine” TV Channel.
The editors of the eajc.org website held a small investigation on the person calling himself Meir Landau, who had been hysterically calling to help Ukrainian Jewry against nationalists and their pogroms on behalf of the non-existent “Jewish Fighting Units.” This “Meir Landau” turned out to be an activist of a pro-Russian group of Cossaks, Nikolai Tselytsky.
