World Jewish Congress

About a hundred protesters, many of them Jewish, protested at the US Congress today, raising slogans against Israel's offensive in Gaza and demanding that the Joe Biden administration push for a ceasefire.

Facebook said on Monday it was updating its hate speech policy to ban any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust.

President Donald Trump vowed to wipe out anti-Semitism in a message to mark Israel's annual Holocaust Remembrance Day after his administration was criticized for past statements about the genocide.

More than a dozen state governors refused on Monday to accept Syrian refugees after the Paris attacks, part of a mounting Republican backlash against the Obama administration's plan to accept thousands more immigrants from the war-torn country.

Jewish groups welcomed the conviction Wednesday of a former Nazi SS officer known as the 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz' and urged justice authorities to maintain pressure on ageing war criminals.

Thousands of people on Sunday joined Hungary's annual "March of Life" commemorating the Holocaust, as World Jewish Congress president Ronald Lauder denounced the country's surging far-right Jobbik party as "extremist".

Next month's 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp is a reminder, at a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise again, of what happens when the world stays silent about persecution, the president of the World Jewish Congress said.

US Congress approved legislation on Wednesday deepening US-Israeli cooperation after softening a push to grant Israelis visa-free travel rights to the United States even as the Jewish state persists in blocking some Arab and Muslim Americans from its territory.

Edgar Bronfman, the chairman of the Seagram Company and long-serving president of the World Jewish Congress, died at his New York home on Saturday aged 84.

About a hundred protesters, many of them Jewish, protested at the US Congress today, raising slogans against Israel's offensive in Gaza and demanding that the Joe Biden administration push for a ceasefire.

Facebook said on Monday it was updating its hate speech policy to ban any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust.

President Donald Trump vowed to wipe out anti-Semitism in a message to mark Israel's annual Holocaust Remembrance Day after his administration was criticized for past statements about the genocide.

More than a dozen state governors refused on Monday to accept Syrian refugees after the Paris attacks, part of a mounting Republican backlash against the Obama administration's plan to accept thousands more immigrants from the war-torn country.

Jewish groups welcomed the conviction Wednesday of a former Nazi SS officer known as the 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz' and urged justice authorities to maintain pressure on ageing war criminals.

Thousands of people on Sunday joined Hungary's annual "March of Life" commemorating the Holocaust, as World Jewish Congress president Ronald Lauder denounced the country's surging far-right Jobbik party as "extremist".

Next month's 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp is a reminder, at a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise again, of what happens when the world stays silent about persecution, the president of the World Jewish Congress said.

US Congress approved legislation on Wednesday deepening US-Israeli cooperation after softening a push to grant Israelis visa-free travel rights to the United States even as the Jewish state persists in blocking some Arab and Muslim Americans from its territory.

Edgar Bronfman, the chairman of the Seagram Company and long-serving president of the World Jewish Congress, died at his New York home on Saturday aged 84.