A devastating explosions in Beirut on Tuesday killed at least 137 people and injured thousands. Hundreds of people still remain missing and about 300,000 have been displaced from their homes. The Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) expresses its sincere condolences following the horrific explosions in the
A great friend of the EAJC, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, a famous translator of the Talmud, Israel Prize holder and a founder of the Institute for Jewish Studies, is currently struggling with a disease. Our thoughts and prayers are now with Rabbi Adin, the son of
In August 1940, almost at the age of 60, one of the brightest Jewish political figures of the 20th century, Vladimir Zeev Zhabotinsky, passed away. Jabotinsky devoted his life to political activity for the sake of the Zionist project and the future Jewish state. His
On the night of Tish’ah be-Av (July 29), when the Jewish people devotes itself again to mourning for all that it has lost during its long exile; after everyone is seated on the ground and before the Kinot (lamentations) are recited, the custom is that the
Though it only regulates the right to immigrate and obtain Israeli citizenship, the law has a significant impact on the processes taking place in Israeli society and in Jewish communities around the world.
Photo: Israeli Ambassador in Albania, Noah Gal Gendler speaks during the inauguration of a memorial in Tirana (Xhulio Hajdari /Tirana City Hall via AP) (Associated Press). Albania unveiled a Holocaust memorial in the capital to honor the victims and the Albanians who protected Jews from
Фото: International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), containing 35 member and liaison countries, issued a statement condemning “all attempts to rehabilitate the reputations of persons who were complicit in the crimes of the Holocaust and the genocide of the Roma.” Euro-Asian
What happened on 17th of Tammuz and 9th of Av and why do we still remember it as a nation?
The EAJC CEO, Dr. Haim Ben-Yaakov presented the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress at the roundtable by the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the First President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev. The event was also attended by former Israeli prime-ministers, Ehud
Seventy years ago, on July 5, 1950, the Israeli Knesset passed the Law of Return, which expressed the centuries-old desire of the Jewish people to return to Eretz Yisrael and determined who has the right to repatriation to Israel.
