Holocaust
The owner of the synagogue building, a local real estate developer, “doesn’t want us there,” said community member David Gurfinkel.
British Gen. Orde Wingate “bravely defended Jews in Palestine against murderous Arab gangs in the 1930s. He was a committed Zionist, revered as a hero and friend in Israel,” said Col. (ret.) Richard Kemp.
It will open as part of a community-wide project in Iowa and Illinois that aims to teach the public about the Holocaust and the Nazi atrocities that took place during World War II.
The collection includes a miniature Hebrew bible printed in Warsaw in the late 19th century that was found by a Soviet Jewish officer during the liberation of a concentration camp in Poland in 1945.
B’nai Brith International says such trivialization “deeply disrespects the victims of the greatest tragedy in the history of mankind.”
“[He] downplayed the most terrible time in the history of our country, and in the history of my family and religious community,” said Mike Delberg, who filed a complaint against the Palestinian Authority leader.
The Ypres city council revoked the permit for the Frontnacht music festival, which was to be held the weekend of Aug. 27-28.
The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation named the city an honorary member.
Palestinian leader “demonstrates his deep-seated anti-Semitism,” said leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
In a statement released Wednesday morning, Abbas called the Holocaust “the most heinous crime in modern human history.”
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid it was important that he clarify to Lapid personally his stance on the Palestinian leader’s accusation.
The municipality of Hogeveen, northeast of Amsterdam, renamed the former Mayor Tjalma Park as “Raadhuispark” (meaning “Radius Park”).
