	June 25, 2020

WJC President Ronald S. Lauder condemns UNHRC for adopting biased anti-Israel resolutions

“It is completely absurd that during this unprecedented crisis, when Israel has been widely praised for its successful management of the COVID-19 pandemic, including extending life-saving humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians, the Human Rights Council has decided to continue its one-sided attacks against the Jewish state... The HRC's bias is now more glaring than ever before."

WebTalk | Jewish Agency Chair Isaac Herzog working to bridge gaps among Jews in Diaspora and Israel

Herzog spoke with WJC Jewish Diplomatic Corps member Alana Baranov about the crucial relationship between Israel and the Diaspora, as part of the WJC's weekly WebTalk series.

WebTalk | Driving engagement through Jewish education

President of Hebrew Union College Dr. Andrew Rehfeld talks with WJC Jewish Diplomatic Corps member Randall Fried about the importance of engaging Jewish youth through education.

The EU, Israel and a surprising deal

A few days ago, some European Parliament members sought to discredit the Israeli government over the very unpopular — and not just in Brussels — plan to annex territory in the West Bank, writes WJC Executive Vice President Maram Stern in Jüdische Allgemeine. The final vote on the EU aviation agreement with Israel was going to be postponed and ratification suspended indefinitely. The plan almost worked.

Croatia's fascist movement is on the rise again

The time has come for the international community to speak out loudly and clearly against any glorification or rehabilitation of those movements and individuals that perpetrated some of the most gruesome crimes in history, writes WJC’s Associate Executive Vice President and General Counsel Menachem Z. Rosensaft in The Independent.

A new model for interfaith relations: WJC Commissioner on the impact of COVID-19

WJC Commissioner for Interfaith Relations Claudio Epelman told the Vatican City State’s daily L'Osservatore Romano that global society must now "adapt to a new world that combines the old and the new. And we have discovered that we are capable of that in the past few months."

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WJC urges UNHRC to condemn all hate speech, including threats by Iran against Israel

In its plea on the floor of the Human Rights Council, the WJC noted that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei recently posted a threatening diatribe on Twitter referring to Israel as a cancerous tumor, comparing the Jewish state to the COVID-19 virus, and pledging to annihilate Israeli cities.

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Memorial to the 64,000 Austrian Jews murdered by Nazis underway in Vienna

The memorial, which was initiated by Holocaust survivor Kurt Y. Tutter, will comprise several stones with the names of the more than 64,000 victims inscribed.

Jews most targeted victim group in Toronto in 2019, police report reveals

Anti-Jewish crimes in Toronto in 2019 accounted for approximately 32% of all 139 hate crimes reported. Barbara Bank, chair of CIJA Toronto, said: "Whether the immediate targets of hate are individuals or community institutions, these crimes leave a lasting, harmful impact on victims and the broader community.”

German parliament votes to toughen online hate speech rules

The session, which occurred on 15 and 16 June, focused on the forms, causes, and consequences of hate speech, and techniques proposed by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI).

Nazis launch ‘Operation Barbarossa’ and invade Soviet Union, a turning point in WWII

While the German forces pushed to the outskirts of Moscow, the failure of the Nazis to quickly defeat the Soviet army, forced Nazi Germany to continuously fight a war on two fronts and is viewed by many as the crucial turning point in the war.

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