Diaspora Jewry
Israel is dedicated to “full integration” of Ethiopian Israeli community, says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu • Attorney general opposes move, arguing it can be seen as election ploy.
“This is the only major capital in Western Europe without a museum,” Mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida said in announcing the decision.
“It is an insane honor to represent my country,” said Eden Alene, 19. “It is amazing that an Ethiopian is doing it for the first time.”
Their core mission is to empower female voices from every race, religion and nationality to organize, act and speak against anti-Semitism.
Company co-founder Yoni Sherizen aims to sell the product anywhere people gather, including schools, churches, malls and nightclubs.
Alexander Shopotinsky, 38, said “the situation has become very difficult—one of the worst in Europe as a whole.”
Accompanying U.S. Attorney General William Barr was U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Richard Donoghue and head of New York’s FBI office William Sweeney.
With organizational partners across the country, the effort focuses on raising awareness about screening for Jewish genetic diseases.
“In all, we did too little. Not enough protection, not enough help, not enough recognition,” says Dutch leader Mark Rutte • Anti-Semitic in France increased by 27 percent in 2019, says French interior minister.
“It is no longer possible to make up for the suffering of the Dorville family under the Nazi persecution, but we must render them visible and this restitution comprises an important gesture of historic justice,” said Germany’s commissioner for culture and the media, Monika Gruetters.
Some 70 percent of French Jews say they have been victims of at least one anti-Semitic incident in their lifetime, with 10 percent reporting they have been attacked several times.
Legion is about “restoring deterrence,” according to one of its leaders, Lance Drucker, noting that the ultimate goal is that when “evil looks at us, they will not see a victim, but an opponent and walk on by.”
