EJC President Dr Moshe Kantor’s op-ed in Jerusalem Post: “Focusing on Youth is the Next Front in the Fight Against Antisemitism”

“Antisemitism thrives in environments of instability, ignorance, and alienation. It can only be contained by building societies that offer the opposite: stability, knowledge, and belonging. That means investing in young people, not just as a moral obligation, but as a strategic necessity,” says EJC President Dr Moshe Kantor.

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EJC President Dr Moshe Kantor’s op-ed in Jerusalem Post: “Focusing on Youth is the Next Front in the Fight Against Antisemitism”

“Antisemitism thrives in environments of instability, ignorance, and alienation. It can only be contained by building societies that offer the opposite: stability, knowledge, and belonging. That means investing in young people, not just as a moral obligation, but as a strategic necessity,” says EJC President Dr Moshe Kantor.

Events & Meetings

EJC Director of European Affairs addresses participants of the ECI Young Leaders Academy at the European Parliament

Director of European Affairs Ariella Woitchik presented the work of the European Jewish Congress as the official umbrella representative of Jewish communities throughout Europe and provided an overview of the ongoing challenges facing European Jews amid the concerning rise of antisemitism across the world.

News from Communities

EJC in the media

Jerusalem Post: “UK: The end of a golden era”

“What we are witnessing today across Britain, and increasingly across Europe, is not a temporary spike or an emotional aftershock of a distant conflict. It is a structural crisis,” said Dr. Moshe Kantor, president of the European Jewish Congress.

News & Views

EJC co-signs joint letter addressed to the President of the European Parliament raising concerns about an exhibition of works by painter accused of antisemitism

The letter raises objections to the exhibition titled ‘GAZA’, which features works by Matthew Collings, whose paintings have been described as antisemitic, and argues that granting institutional space within the European Parliament risks undermining the institution’s responsibility to safeguard against hate speech.

Life in Israel

IDF finds last October 7 hostage Ran Gvili’s remains in northern Gaza

His return marks the end of the saga of returning all live and deceased hostages taken by Hamas on October 7.

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.