Eastern Europe
The World Jewish Congress lauded the move as “principled step in the critical quest for international peace and security.”
The Euro-Asian Jewish Congress supports the demand of Croatia’s Jewish community to break the silence surrounding the appalling crimes of the fascist Ustaša regime against humanity.
Israel’s ambassador to Ukraine demands “immediate action” to stop “this historic injustice.”
“We adopted the decision to relocate the Embassy of the Republic of Moldova in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. It was a long overdue commitment to support our allies,” tweeted Pavel Filip.
“I was born in a mixed family, like many Latvians. All my father’s relatives were killed in the Holocaust,” said Egils Levits, 63. “In this respect, my family reflects the history of Latvia.”
The three-day program was the largest of its kind for Jews across the former Soviet Union, with participants from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Georgia.
In a Jewish ceremony led by a Chabad rabbi, the remains were inserted into several coffins and then buried.
What is no joke (puns have proliferated since comedian-turned-politician Volodymyr Zelensky announced his candidacy) is the high-profile visibility with which he has embraced his Jewishness—not a small factor in a country with as deep and troubled a history of anti-Semitism as Ukraine.
Ukraine is the only country other than Israel to have both a Jewish president and a Jewish prime minister.
Volodymyr Zelensky, 41, a professional comedian with no political experience, defeated incumbent Petro Poroshenko, 53, with 73 percent of the vote in the runoff election, according to national exit polls.
The Center for the Study of the Genocide and Resistance of Residents has been under fire for publishing that “the Lithuanians operated against the will of the Germans,” and that “the residents of occupied Lithuania in 1941 didn’t understand ghettos as part of the Holocaust.”
“This process creates meaningful connections that support and uplift three or more communities at a time through their joint partnership activities, with Israel at the heart of it all,” said Andrea Arbel, the director of the partnership unit at the Jewish Agency.
