EJC welcomes the election of Pope Leo XIV and looks forward to continuing to strengthen Catholic-Jewish relations

The EJC remains committed to working closely with the Holy See and the wider Catholic community to foster understanding, combat religious-based discrimination, and promote peace and human dignity throughout Europe and beyond.

Statements

EJC welcomes the election of Pope Leo XIV and looks forward to continuing to strengthen Catholic-Jewish relations

The EJC remains committed to working closely with the Holy See and the wider Catholic community to foster understanding, combat religious-based discrimination, and promote peace and human dignity throughout Europe and beyond.

Events & Meetings

EJC organised EU-funded interfaith conference in Brussels in partnership with SACC by EJC and Faith Matters

The conference, funded by the European Union through the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV) as part of the “BADRI - Bringing Awareness, Dialogue, and Resilience Improvement” project, provided a unique opportunity to address the shared challenges faced by faith-based communities and explore collaborative solutions.

News from Communities

EJC in the media

The Telegraph: “Calls for Kneecap boycott spread across Europe”

Raya Kalenova, the EJC executive vice-president, said: “Freedom of expression has limits and those freedoms cannot include the right to support violence and terrorism."

News & Views

80 years after the Shoah, seven largest Jewish communities in the world report unprecedented rise in antisemitism

The report highlights dramatic rises in both the total number of antisemitic incidents and antisemitic incidents per capita in—Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States—driven in part by the aftermath of the Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist massacre in Israel.

Life in Israel

Israel takes over IHRA Presidency from the United Kingdom

Israel’s Presidency will be guided by the theme Crossroads of Generations, emphasizing the passing of the torch of Holocaust remembrance from the survivors to future generations.

Galleries

Shoah Commemoration

More than 70 years after the Shoah, the systematic murder of six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators, representing a third of the world’s Jewish population and a half of Europe’s, it is incumbent upon us as Jews and as Europeans to maintain the memory of this most unique of genocides and to draw the lessons from it for our own days.

We must seek different methods to convey the same message of where hatred and intolerance and antisemitism lead. The most important of these is through education and the EJC works with governments and local authorities to ensure the insertion and maintenance of Holocaust education in curricula and non-curricula activities.

About us

The EJC was created to give a unified voice to Jewish communities around Europe, representing their common interests and concerns, but at the same time allowing smaller Jewish communities a wider platform to express their specific needs.

It federates democratically elected national Jewish community organisations in over 40 European countries uniting 2.5 million Jews across the continent.