Russian parliament preparing restrictions on new religious groups WORKING GROUP FOR COMBATING SECTARIANISM TO BE CREATED IN STATE DUMA RIA Novosti, 25 February 2016 Deputies of the State Duma on Thursday at a session of the interfractional deputies’ Group for Protection of Christian Values made a decision to create a working group for combating sectarianism […]
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Latvia to return 5 buildings to Jewish community
Latvia to return 5 buildings to Jewish community February 25, 2016 (JTA) – Latvia’s parliament passed a bill that facilitates the return of some buildings that were owned by Jewish communities before the Holocaust. On Thursday, the Saemia approved a measure that is expected to lead to the transfer of at least three building in […]
Popular Russian paper derides Putin’s call for European Jews to flee to Russia
Popular Russian paper derides Putin’s call for European Jews to flee to Russia While Putin, “cannot be accused of having a negative attitude towards Jews…a massive exodus of Jews back to Russia seems to be a fantasy.” Vladimir Putin.. (photo credit:REUTERS) One of Russia’s most popular news outlets has accused President Vladimir Putin of being […]
UCSJ REPORT: HATE CRIMES IN THE UKRAINE
Congress of National Communities of Ukraine National Minority Rights Monitoring Group Hate crimes in Ukraine in 2015 Vyacheslav Likhachev Chronicle of Hate-Motivated Violence On the evening of May 17, at about 10PM, a group of approximately 10 people attacked a man of Nigerian descent. The attack was accompanied by insults that targeted […]
Popular Russian paper derides Putin’s call for European Jews to flee to Russia
Popular Russian paper derides Putin’s call for European Jews to flee to Russia While Putin, “cannot be accused of having a negative attitude towards Jews…a massive exodus of Jews back to Russia seems to be a fantasy.” Vladimir Putin.. (photo credit:REUTERS) One of Russia’s most popular news outlets has accused President Vladimir Putin of being […]
Lithuanian Jews call for government to publish list of Nazi collaborators
Lithuanian Jews call for government to publish list of Nazi collaborators The Genocide Center has given the government a list containing 2,055 names of supposed perpetrators but Vilnius neither published it nor made any attempt to investigate the people concerned. A man walks past a sign at a commemoration place during the March of the […]
Jerusalem Post: “Odessa Remnants”
Jerusalem Post: “Odessa Remnants” Posted on November 29, 2015 by Julie Masis A block away from Odessa’s Jewish Street stands a gray building with windows that reach several stories high. Something about it gave me the impression that it must be a synagogue. But on the gate hangs a sign – State Archives of Odessa Region, […]
Ukraine plans museum to commemorate Babi Yar
Ukraine plans museum to commemorate Babi Yar By Julie Masis, January 7, 2016 One of the memorial sculptures A museum will be built in Ukraine next year to mark the 75th anniversary of one of the biggest single Holocaust massacres, the mayor of the Ukrainian capital announced last week. “Since we understand that the world […]
Ukraine Tells Israel It May Prosecute Shas MK Who Visited Crimea
Ukraine Tells Israel It May Prosecute Shas MK Who Visited Crimea Israeli lawmaker Yakov Margi allegedly violated Ukrainian law by meeting with the president of the Russian-installed government without Kiev’s permission. The Ukrainian government informed Israel Thursday night that it is considering indicting MK Yakov Margi (Shas) over his visit to the Crimean peninsula, which […]
Knesset Committee Chairman to Azeris: There Never Was Anti-Semitism in Azerbaijan
Knesset Committee Chairman to Azeris: There Never Was Anti-Semitism in Azerbaijan By: David Israel Azerbaijan Photo Credit: Francisco Anzola The Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, headed by MK Tzachi Hanegbi (Likud), on Wednesday hosted a delegation of the Azeri National Assembly’s International and Inter-Parliamentary Relations Committee, and Hanegbi welcomed the guests and stressed that […]