Europe

Hundreds of people are expected to attend Lisbon’s first-ever Jewish film festival next week.

Art says so much about our history and cultural identity, and of course, it goes without saying it can be appreciated on so many levels. And so the looting of art during the Nazi regime during the Second World War has had a profound impact, as an audience found out at the London Jewish Cultural centre.

Polish officials have honored Irena Sendler, a Polish woman credited with saving 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust, by naming a walkway in a symbolically important spot after her.

It’s one of the most important books in the world, estimated to cost between seven million ans one billion U.S. dollars. The original is housed in Sarajevo's National Museum which was closed in October 2012 due to economic troubles. Now after surviving 2 wars, both World War II and the Bosnian War, the Haggadah is facing another battle of its own.

Hungary’s Protestant Church has moved against one of its own for participating in an anti-Semitic rally, and if an outspoken pastor gets sacked it could deprive the country’s extreme-right movement Jobbik of a key source of support.

A member of Britain’s House of Lords has quit the Labour Party, two days before he was due to face a hearing over allegations that he made anti-Semitic remarks in a television interview. 

A Bulgarian nationalist party which has protested against the Roma minority, and wants to nationalize foreign-owned firms has emerged as a kingmaker from parliamentary elections.

10,000 people from all over Europe took part in the biggest commemoration of the crimes of the NS regime committed in the concentration camps in Mauthausen, Upper Austria.

The Vienna Jewish Choir, which plays a vital part in making Jewish culture an integral part of life in Vienna again, hosted in the Austrian capital the first European Jewish Choral Festival with a comprehensive repertoire of Yiddish, Hebrew, and Ladino songs.

Ambassador blasts EU for turning blind eye to terror group; it doesn’t take Mother Theresa to see it’s no ‘social organization’