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World Jewish Congress Representing Jewish Communities in 100 Countries Across Six Continents

The World Jewish Congress is the international organization that represents Jewish communities and organizations in 100 countries around the world.

We hope you have a peaceful and restful Shabbat.Shabbat Shalom!
05/29/2026

We hope you have a peaceful and restful Shabbat.

Shabbat Shalom!

This is the power of sports! The Pierre Gildesgame Tournament, an international football tournament for Scandinavian Jew...
05/29/2026

This is the power of sports! The Pierre Gildesgame Tournament, an international football tournament for Scandinavian Jewish communities, took place in 🇪🇪 Tallinn this month, bringing together hundreds of Jewish youths.

The Jewish Community of Estonia and Maccabi Estonia hosted the tournament for the first time. 33 teams. 600 participants. 88 matches.

Teams from Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Estonia, as well as hundreds of parents, coaches, and friends.

During the tournament, the Dan Uzan Memorial Cup was presented to Maccabi Estonia goalkeeper Platon Piibe, for demonstrating exceptional dedication, strength of character, and team spirit. The cup is named after Dan Uzan, a member of the Jewish community of Copenhagen who was killed during the terrorist attack outside the Copenhagen synagogue in February 2015, protecting a Bat Mitzvah celebration inside.

Mazal tov to the teams on showing the strength and dedication of our communities.

The Simone Veil Prize is a new European initiative recognizing the power of cultural heritage to strengthen dialogue, me...
05/28/2026

The Simone Veil Prize is a new European initiative recognizing the power of cultural heritage to strengthen dialogue, memory, and shared futures.

Named after French Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate Simone Veil, the prize will highlight projects that bring people together through heritage, foster understanding across communities, and engage new generations in shaping inclusive narratives.

If you are working on a project that connects heritage with dialogue and social impact, this is your moment.

👉More info and submissions here: https://simoneveilprize.eu/

05/28/2026

Since 2019, the NOA project (Networks Overcoming Antisemitism) has been assessing how different EU member states address and combat antisemitism.

Through a rigorous methodology, NOA compiled National Report Cards for seven EU countries: 🇦🇹 Austria, 🇧🇪 Belgium, 🇪🇪 Estonia, 🇭🇺 Hungary, 🇮🇹 Italy, 🇳🇱 the Netherlands, 🇪🇸 Spain.

The Report Cards should be used as a resource and tool - for countries to develop and implement national action plans to combat antisemitism and foster Jewish life. They assess how countries deal with the policy fields of Culture & Heritage, Education, Hate Crime, Hate Speech, Holocaust Remembrance, Intercultural Dialogue, Media, Religious Freedom, Security, Sport, Youth.

We encourage government and civil society activists to look through these reports, and join us in this movement to ensure a safe, Jewish future in Europe.

Find it at 🔗 noa-project.eu

Since the war with Iran began several months ago, a new incitement trend has appeared on Arabic-language Facebook groups...
05/28/2026

Since the war with Iran began several months ago, a new incitement trend has appeared on Arabic-language Facebook groups.

A voting style poll, asking: “Do you support destroying/burning Tel Aviv completely? ◯ Yes ◯ No.”

WJC TecHRI (Technology and Human Rights Institute) documented over a dozen such posts.

The poll functions as a mobilization tool in soliciting public affirmation for mass violence. Users leave tens of thousands of comments under these posts, such as: “Definitely, street by street, house by house, alley by alley.” “My friend, this doesn’t even need to be asked.”

These posts generated 138,000 reactions, 48,000 comments, and 3,100 shares. At standard Facebook engagement-to-reach ratios, the reach of this sample alone runs into the tens of millions.

Meta's weak enforcement allows the same accounts to repeatedly post content which violates hate content regulations, without any action taken against the accounts.

Read 🔗 https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/wjc-institute-for-technology-and-human-rights -genocidal-hatred-during-the-us-israel-war-against-iran

There’s so much Jewish history underneath many American cities outside the hot spots, and we’re exploring them for Jewis...
05/27/2026

There’s so much Jewish history underneath many American cities outside the hot spots, and we’re exploring them for Jewish American Heritage Month. Next we go south: Charleston.

➡️ Little Jerusalem: Located along Upper King Street, “Little Jerusalem” was the historic center of Charleston’s Jewish immigrant community in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The neighborhood was a vibrant, Yiddish-speaking district with Jewish-owned shops and kosher markets.

➡️ Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim: Established in 1749, Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim is one of the oldest synagogues in the United States and a founding congregation of Reform Judaism in America.

➡️ The Coming Street Cemetery: One of the oldest surviving Jewish cemeteries in the American South, established in the 18th century.

➡️ Hyman’s Seafood & Aaron’s Deli: Located in downtown Charleston, Hyman’s Seafood is a fourth-generation Jewish-owned family business with roots dating back to 1890, when Jewish immigrant Wolf Maier Karesh opened a dry goods store on the site.

➡️ Mazal: A modern Israeli-inspired restaurant drawing from Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, and Jewish culinary traditions.

05/27/2026

“The 7th of October has massively shaken the sense of belonging of young Jews to Europe.”

EUJS - European Union of Jewish Students President Hanna Veiler spoke at the WJC Governing Board in Geneva, Switzerland this month, ensuring that young Jewish voices are part of shaping the present and future of Jewish life.

NOA (Networks Overcoming Antisemitism) is a unique project which monitors what countries in Europe are doing to counter ...
05/27/2026

NOA (Networks Overcoming Antisemitism) is a unique project which monitors what countries in Europe are doing to counter antisemitism and foster Jewish life through their government institutions.

This week in Brussels, the final NOA European conference is gathering Jewish organizations, communities, and researchers in order to share the work and results we’ve achieved.

Through the NOA project, we are confident that we laid the groundwork to help EU Members States create proper strategies for combatting antisemitism in their countries - so that Jewish life in Europe can thrive.

Find the National Report Cards at noa-project.eu

The NOA project, a partnership with AEPJ, CEJI - A Jewish Contribution to an Inclusive Europe, EUJS - European Union of Jewish Students, is co-funded by the European Commission.

Jews were celebrating Shavuot just several days ago. But Jews and Jewish spaces were also physically attacked during the...
05/26/2026

Jews were celebrating Shavuot just several days ago. But Jews and Jewish spaces were also physically attacked during the holiday.

➡️ In the UK, two Jewish men were assaulted near a synagogue in Hendon, in northwest London, late in the evening of May 21 - the night that Shavuot began. They sustained minor injuries.

A suspect was arrested at the scene. The suspect, a 25-year-old male, faces two counts of racially or religiously aggravated assault by beating; one count of assault by beating; as well as racially or religiously aggravated criminal damage and criminal damage.

➡️ In Portugal, the Lisbon synagogue was vandalized with graffiti on May 21. The wall adjacent to the synagogue gate was tagged with “From the River to Sea, Palestine will be free.”

“This message, in this specific location, constitutes an attack …on the fundamental right of Jews, including Portuguese Jews – the majority of whom attend the Lisbon Synagogue – to live their religious and cultural identity freely and safely in Portugal,” the Comunidade Israelita de Lisboa said in a statement.

➡️ In Montreal, Canada, anti-Israel protestors paraded with effigies of hanged Jews wearing kippas, as well as hanged Israeli politicians, as seen in social media videos posted by the group “Montreal for Palestine.”

This “does not fall under ‘peaceful activism,’” CIJA, WJC’s affiliate Jewish community in Canada, commented. “It constitutes a form of intimidation and an implicit call to violence that contributes to the radicalization of the social climate.”

Antisemitism has become a real and present threat to Jewish safety in daily life. It is meant to harm directly or to intimidate. And yet - we refuse to be intimidated.

05/26/2026

Witold Pilecki (May 13, 1901- May 25, 1948) was known as the 'Auschwitz volunteer.' A Polish soldier working for the underground resistance during WWII, he gathered critical information from inside the Auschwitz concentration camp about the atrocities the Germans were committing.

Pilecki's secret reports from Auschwitz are among the first records obtained by the Western Allies about the crimes of the Holocaust. Tragically, his reports detailing the the mass murder of Jews went unheeded.

Witold Pilecki survived Auschwitz and the war. But he was executed by Communist Poland in 1948.

Today, nearly 80 years later, we need to remember and know the facts. Find more at www.AboutHolocaust.org

05/25/2026

On May 24, 1991, one of the largest airlifts in Israeli history, Operation Solomon, began. In just 36 hours, 14,310 Jews from Ethiopia were rescued from war and famine and brought to Israel, a journey marked by heroism and hope.

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