News from Communities

The claim that it was the Soviet army that rescued Bulgarian Jews from deportation to the Holocaust is either deep ignorance of history or an attempt at provocation, Bulgarian President Roumen Radev said on Saturday.

The Mustafa Busuladzic Elementary School in Sarajevo hit back at criticism of its new name on Thursday, saying that Israel “has no right to give moral lessons to others” because of the building of Jewish settlements”.

Τhe President of the Central Βoard of Jewish Communities in Greece, and President of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki, David Saltiel, received on Thursday the Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his contribution to German-Jewish cooperation.

Meeting with leaders of the Jewish community of Madrid on Sunday, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin pledged the Jewish state’s support in the fight against antisemitism, and celebrated 100 years of resurgent Jewish presence in Spain.

Netanyahu, his wife Sara and their accompanying delegation held a meeting with the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the country’s EJC affiliate, in which he thanked them for being "a bridge between Britain and Israel, between Britain and Zionism."

A Spanish synagogue unveiled Europe’s first feminist Torah scroll on Saturday. According to Orthodox Jewish law, only men are allowed to write a Torah scroll. But Jewish women around the world are starting to challenge these strict gender norms, and now the trend has reached the Iberian Peninsula.