Category Archives: World
Times of Israel: Israel hosts first-ever anti-BDS conference at UN
The Times of Israel wrote an article on the Ambassadors Against BDS International Summit, the first-ever anti-BDS movement conference held at the U.N. General Assembly Hall.More than 2,000 diplomats, advocates and students gathered to hear an array of speakers and discuss how to combat the BDS movement. Read more » »
Radio France Internationale: Speaking with Cuba’s ‘Jewbanos’
Radio France Internationale (RFI) produced a piece on Cuban Jews and spoke with the head of the B’nai B’rith Cuban Jewish Relief Project Sienna Girgenti about the organization’s work. B’nai B’rith International’s more than 20 years of assisting the Cuban-Jewish community is mentioned in the story. Read more » »
Memphis Jewish Home & Rehab: 20 Years of Sam Schloss Lodge Luncheons
Memphis Jewish Home & Rehab featured the B’nai B’rith Sam Schloss Lodge in its latest newsletter, marking 20 years of lodge members visiting residents and patients for luncheons. Memphis Jewish Home & Rehab was originally founded as the B’nai B’rith Home and Hospital in 1927. Read more » »
B’nai B’rith Welcomes Election Of Israel To Chair Permanent Committee At U.N.
B’nai B’rith International welcomes the election of Israel to the position of chair of the United Nations General Assembly’s Sixth Committee. This is the first time that the Jewish state will chair a permanent committee of the General Assembly. The committee manages matters relevant to international law and terrorism. Read more » »
COMMUNIQUE du B’nai B’rith France
Le B’nai B’rith France rend hommage aux forces de l’ordre de notre pays et s’incline devant la mémoire du couple de policiers sauvagement assassinés à Magnanville Le B’nai B’rith France et son Président Serge Dahan sont horrifiés par le lâche assassinat du couple de policiers à Magnanville. Read more » »
Jewish Herald-Voice (Tex.): UOSGMS receives grant for music education
The B’nai B’rith International Disaster Relief Fund contributed $5,000 to the UOS Goldberg Montessori School in Houston to provide funding for a music program after the school was destroyed during flooding in 2015. Read more » »
Israeli leaders, US Jewish groups mourn Orlando shooting
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking during a joint press conference with his Czech counterpart, Bohuslav Sobotka, at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, May 22, 2016. Read more »
COMMUNIQUE du B’nai B’rith France
Le B’nai B’rith France félicite SE Monsieur Danny Danon, Ambassadeur d’Israël aux Nations Unies pour son élection à la présidence du Sixième Comité de l’Assemblée Générale de l’ONU Sur proposition du Groupe des États d’Europe Occidentale et Autres Read more » »
Orlando
Read on for articleWorld Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder has harshly condemned the vicious attack on an Orlando, Florida nightclub which left 50 people dead and dozens more wounded earlier in the evening, in the most severe hate crime in US history. Read more » »
Last of the ‘doll ladies’
Selma Bukstein has spent a good part of her 90 years trying to make a difference. To that end, she has been teaching about tolerance at elementary schools from Missouri to Alabama to California for nearly 60 years. Read more » »
