CER awarded Angela Merkel

16 April 2013

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will receive a top award from Europe's Orthodox rabbinic body.

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Jewish pressure group demands Apple pull book

16 August 2012

The Conference of European Rabbis, a body which represents Jewish communities across the continent, has said that it wants the IT giant Apple to pull a mobile phone application version of the notorious anti-Semitic forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

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European Rabbis rally German Jews to flaunt circumcision ban

13 July 2012

The Conference of European Rabbis (CER) called for German Jews to defy a controversial court ruling against the practice of religious circumcisions to secure a Jewish future in Germany.

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European rabbis protest circumcision ban in Berlin meeting

11 July 2012

Some 40 European rabbis met in Berlin on Tuesday to protest a ban on circumcision, with the group's president calling it "one of the gravest attacks on Jewish life" since the Holocaust. 

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Jerzy Buzek receives Jewish award

29 March 2012

Former European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek from Poland was awarded by the Conference of European Rabbis (CER) the first "Lord Jakobovits Prize of European Jury" for his efforts in support of Polish and European Jewry, during a ceremony at the main synagogue in Brussels.

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Jerzy Buzek will be awarded first ‘Prize of European Jewry’

26 March 2012

Former Polish European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek will be awarded the first “Lord Jakobovits Prize of European Jewry" by the Conference of European Rabbis (CER), during a ceremony to be held at Brussels’s main synagogue.

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European Rabbis call on Sarkozy to defend Jewish ritual slaughter

14 March 2012

The Conference of European Rabbis (CER) called on French President Nicolas Sarkozy to defend ‘shechita’, the Jewish ritual slaughter, in Europe and to oppose a regulation that would introduce a labelling "which would lead to stigmatisation." 

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CER slams Estonian government’s ritual slaughter reforms

08 August 2012

The Conference of European Rabbis (CER) has slammed the Estonian government’s announcement it will change its law on shechita (Jewish religious slaughter), to reflect “new scientific knowledge”.

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