(Fort Worth, May 27, 2021)—The Garsek Lodge of B’nai B’rith, the Jewish Federation of Fort Worth and Rabbi Andrew Bloom, among other rabbis in the nearby mid-cities, produced on short notice an impressive pro-Israel rally that attracted more than 170 people. Read more » »

Patch included B’nai B’rith International’s response to the Congressional resolution aimed at preventing a sale of arms to Israel in its coverage of a pro-Palestinian protest held in New Brunswick, New Jersey and the response to President Joe Biden’s approval of the arms sale to Israel. Read more » »

B’nai B’rith President Charles O. Kaufman and CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin have issued the following statement:  The B’nai B’rith International Executive Board of Directors, including the Executive Committee, today passed a resolution expressing that the Read more » »

WHEREAS Israel—the nation-state of the Jewish people and the sole true democracy in the Middle East—once again finds itself forced to defend against rocket attacks launched by the terrorist organizations Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad from Gaza; Read more » »

(Washington, D.C., April 30, 2021)—B’nai B’rith International President Charles O. Kaufman and CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin have issued the following statement:    ​We are deeply saddened by the scenes of the stampede at Mount Meron in Northern Israel at what should have been a joyous Lag B’Omer celebration. Read more » »

(Washington, D.C., April 8, 2021)—B’nai B’rith President Charles O. Kaufman and CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin have issued the following statement: We vociferously condemn the deeply harmful comments about the Jewish role in school re-openings made by American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten. Read more » »

A new book, co-edited by the director of B’nai B’rith World Center-Jerusalem Alan Schneider and dedicated to the stories of Jews who rescued fellow Jews during the Holocaust, is now available through publisher Peter Lang. Read more » »

(Washington, D.C., March 22, 2021)—B’nai B’rith International President Charles O. Kaufman and CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin have issued the following statement:    ​We are outraged by the vicious, violent attack on a 20-year-old pregnant Jewish woman in Stamford Hill, London. Read more » »

B’nai B’rith International President Charles O. Kaufman and CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin have issued the following statement:  The acquittal in an Argentine federal court of a defendant in the 1994 terror bombing of the AMIA building in Buenos Aires is a disgraceful miscarriage of justice. Read more » »

Times of Israel: Op-EdShonda: The European Court of Justice Ruling on Ritual SlaughterBy Alina Bricman As a Jewish European, last week’s ruling to by the European Court of Justice to allow member states to impose restrictions on ritual slaughter was personal.I say that as a secular Jew, one who does not eat kosher meat. Read more » »