Category Archives: B’nai B’rith International
Headstones smashed at Jewish cemetery in Ukraine – Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Several headstones were recently destroyed at a Jewish cemetery in Malyn, #Ukraine. Who would do something so disgusting as to desecrate graves? This should immediately be investigated by the Ukrainian government as a hate crime. Read more » »
First plane with Israeli tourists lands in UAE after deal
A welcome sight: The first flight carrying Israeli 🇮🇱 tourists to the United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪 landed Sunday in the city-state of Dubai. Great to see the relationship between these two nations progressing after their historic normalization deal. Read more » »
Anti-racism mustn’t be exploited to foment anti-Semitism | Opinion
„False accusations of ‘Zionist’ racism—along with attempts to preempt pushback by asserting that Jews dismiss all reproach as anti-Semitic—undermine the very cause of fighting bigotry,” our Director of United Nations and Intercommunal Affairs David Michaels writes in Newsweek. Read more » »
❗️HAPPENING SOON❗️ Today at 11:30 ET | 5:30 CET 82 Years Since the November Pogroms – Genocide …
❗️HAPPENING SOON❗️ Today at 11: 30 ET | 5: 30 CET 82 Years Since the November Pogroms – Genocide Prevention: A Collective Responsibility WATCH: https: //facebook.com/bnaibrithinternational/live More info 👇82 Years Since the November Pogroms – Genocide Prevention: a Collective Responsibility 🗓 Monday, November 9 at 11: 30 a.m. ET | 5: 30 p.m. Read more » »
Remembering the 1938 November Pogroms (Kristallnacht) Join Bnai Brith Brasil TODAY at 3 p.m. ET / 5 …
Remembering the 1938 November Pogroms (Kristallnacht) Join Bnai Brith Brasil TODAY at 3 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. BRT, as they commemorate 82 years since Kristallnacht. Special guests include Israeli President Reuven Ruvi Rivlin, a Holocaust survivor’s daughter Judith Scliar, Archbishop of Rio Orani João Tempesta and Judge Denise Levy Tredler. Read more » »
B’nai B’rith Congratulates President-Elect Joe Biden
B’nai B’rith International President Charles O. Kaufman and CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin have issued the following statement: We congratulate Joe Biden on his election as president of the United States. And we congratulate Kamala Harris on her historic election – as a woman and as a child of immigrants – as vice president. Read more » »
Rabbi Lord Sacks, rabbinical giant of his generation, dies aged 72
We are deeply saddened by the passing of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z”ll. Rabbi Sacks was without a doubt one of the most influential Jewish figures of our age. An enduring moral voice, an eminent intellectual and an inspiring leader. Read more » »
Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided US
Congratulations to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for being elected the next president and vice president of the U.S. 🇺🇸. We wish them well and hope both can unite Americans on many issues, including our support for Israel and our fight against anti-Semitism. Read more » »
Israel – the Middle East’s sole democracy, one of the world’s smallest and most beleaguered nations …
Israel – the Middle East’s sole democracy, one of the world’s smallest and most beleaguered nations – is ritualistically condemned more than all other 192 United Nations member states combined. „For its own sake…it’s time for a new U.N. approach to the Middle East,” writes our Director of U.N. and Intercommunal Affairs David Michaels for Medium. Read more » »
