Category Archives: World

B’nai B’rith Co-Sponsors Visit of Ambassadors to Israel

(Washington, D.C., July 22, 2021)–B’nai B’rith President Charles O. Kaufman and CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin have issued the following statement: ​B’nai B’rith International, along with the American Zionist Movement (AZM) and the International March of Read more » »

Bennett: US consumers don’t think taking Hamas’s side is ‘cool’

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Thursday that boycotting Israel is a terrible business move, and implied that US-based ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s was siding with Hamas by banning sales in Israeli settlements. Read more » »

BBUK condemns Ben and Jerry’s decision to stop selling in ‘the Occupied Palestinian Territory’

By BBUK In Advocacy, Statements On 22 July 2021 By Jeremy Havardi B’nai B’rith UK condemns in the strongest terms the recent decision of Ben and Jerry’s to stop selling their ice cream products in ‘the Occupied Palestinian Territory’. Read more » »

Holocaust Museum of Oporto donates guestbooks to Yad Vashem

Holocaust Museum of Oporto donates guestbooks to Yad Vashem  Israel Hayom Read more »

Anita Novinsky, leading scholar on history of Jews in Brazil, dies at 98

RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Anita Novinsky, a leading Brazilian scholar on the Portuguese Inquisition and the history of Jewish presence in Brazil, passed away in Sao Paulo on Tuesday. She was 98. Read more » »

Canadian government summits on anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: a political fraud

Over the course of two days this week, Canada’s federal Liberal government is holding two separate “emergency summits” on anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. These meetings will do nothing to uproot anti-Jewish or anti-Muslim hatred. Read more » »

Topsfield Fair to host Hot Dog Eating Contest 

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B’nai Brith Canada Makes Strong, Action-Based Recommendations to Feds

Michael Mostyn and Prof. Irwin Cotler July 21, 2021 OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada, a leader in this country’s fight against antisemitism, has laid out to the federal government a series of action-based, concrete measures designed to combat hatred directed at the Jewish community. Read more » »

Anita Novinsky, leading scholar on Jews of Brazil, dies at 98 – Jewish Telegraphic Agency

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Jewish Museum of Oporto Dedicates Exhibit to Entebbe Hostage Rescue Operation

Initiative aims to bring young Jews closer to Israel (Washington, D.C., July 21, 2021)—The Jewish Museum of Oporto, in Portugal, opened a permanent exhibit dedicated to the Entebbe hostage rescue on July 19. The exhibit features videos and other materials that tell the story of that momentous rescue of Israeli hostages from Uganda in 1976. Read more » »