The Jewish History of Cuba
November 22, 2019
[[link removed]] [[link removed]] [[link removed]] [[link removed]]The job is not yet done: On the reform the handling of Nazi-looted art | WJC
President Ronald S. Lauder

Germany can and should place itself at the forefront of efforts to ensure that
cross-border solutions are also sought and found on a European level in order to
accelerate the identification and return of looted art, writes WJC President
Lauder in Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
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[[link removed]]British Jews launch 'Jewish Manifesto' ahead of General Elections

Board of Deputies President Marie van der Zyl writes about the Manifesto
[[link removed]] “The Jewish Manifesto election presents candidates with a clearly thought out
and agreed set of policy requests. We call on all candidates to sign up show
support to their local Jewish community. We would also encourage all members of
the Jewish community to engage proactively in the election."
Read Marie van der Zyl's op-ed on the Manifesto in the Jewish Chronicle...
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[[link removed]]CIJA deeply disappointed with change to Canadian vote at United Nations

CIJA National Co-Chair Joel Reitman commented: “While Foreign Minister Chrystia
Freeland offered assurances that no other changes in vote were being
contemplated, we are very disappointed that the Government of Canada did not
stand firm in opposition to the annual Israel-bashing ritual at the UN General
Assembly."
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[[link removed]]Antisemitism is everyone's problem | LAJC Executive Director Claudio Epelman

LAJC Executive Director and WJC Commissioner for Interfaith Relations Claudio
Epelman writes in Clarin, in Spanish: When we understand that attacks against
individual faiths is not just an attack against those targeted, coexistence will
overcome intolerance.
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[[link removed]]German Leader Merkel to make first visit to Auschwitz

Last month, the World Jewish Congress gave Merkel its Theodor Herzl Award for
her efforts to foster Jewish life in Germany and her support for the state of
Israel.
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[[link removed]]WJC stands with Ukrainian Jewish community in deploring antisemitic cartoon
targeting Jewish leader

In a statement released this week, the Confederation said: “We are not
indifferent to the fate of each Jew, and we stand for the protection of the
Jewish rights in Ukraine. We are against any manifestation of xenophobia towards
citizens of any nationality"
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[[link removed]]Lithuania to issue first-ever euro coin featuring Hebrew inscription

Coin will be issued in honor of the 'Year of the Vilna Gaon and the History of
the Jews of Lithuania'; critics claim Menorah symbol on coin's obverse used by
far right, neo-Nazi groups in Baltic state.
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[[link removed]]10,000 Yiddish books now fully searchable online

After years of work by a small team of linguists, computer programmers, and
volunteer editors, visitors to the Yiddish Book Center’s website can now search
millions of pages of digitized Yiddish books with the aid of a newly launched
computer program, the Forward reports.
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[[link removed]]Antisemitism at a glance: Finland

The Israeli embassy in Finland has been vandalized at least 15 times over the
last two years. And in November 2019, on the anniversary of Kristallnacht,
antisemitic messages appeared in front of the synagogue in Helsinki. Finland is
seeing an uptick of antisemitic incidents.
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[[link removed]]The Jewish history of Cuba

This month the Cuban capital Havana is celebrating 500 years of its foundation.
The local Jewish community may be small, but Havana still boasts three
synagogues, including both Sephardic and Ashkenazi, and a Hebrew school. This is
the story of Cuba's Jews.
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[[link removed]] [[link removed]]35 years since Operation Moses
It was 35 years ago: With Ethiopia affected by war and famine, Israel undertook
a secret operation to rescue Ethiopian Jews. It was known as Operation Moses. In
seven weeks, 8,000 Ethiopian Jews were airlifted from Sudan and brought to
safety in their new home: Israel.


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