Events & Meetings

The European Jewish Congress (EJC) held its Executive Meeting in Prague on May 15th, 2012. Following the meeting, all members of EJC Executive were invited by Czech Prime Minister Petr Nečas in the governmental Lichtenstein palace to discuss new threats against the Jewish community. The EJC received an endorsement from the Czech Prime Minister for their plan on how best to tackle these threats...

EJC President, Dr. Moshe Kantor, together with an EJC delegation composed of Vivian Wineman, President of the Board of Deputies (Great Britain), Dieter Graumann, President of Zentralrat (the Central Council of Jews in Germany), Serge Cwajgenbaum, EJC Secretary General Raya Kalenova, EJC Deputy Secretary General and Haim Musikant General Director of Crif, met on 11 April 2012 with French Presidential Candidate Fran̤ois Hollande and Pierre Moscovici, Chief of Presidential Campaign...

Dr. Kantor received the award, presented by Ambassador Philippe Etienne, Permanent Representative of the French Republic to the European Union...

European Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor met with Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjorn Jagland to discuss the rise of racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia in Europe.

On Tuesday, 24th January 2012, the Ceremony for the International Holocaust Remembrance Day was held in the European Parliament in Brussels. EJC together with Jewish and non-Jewish organisations organized it, in collaboration and under the patronage of Mr. Martin Schulz, the newly elected President of the European Parliament.

"We are happy that the Dutch Government has stepped in with a compromise to prevent a ban on kosher slaughter in Holland,"Kantor said. "This compromise is befitting Holland's long history of freedom of religion and specifically, tolerance towards its Jewish community."