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EJC Executive Meets in Brussels
On September 16, the European Jewish Congress (EJC) Executive met in Brussels under the chairmanship of President Moshe Kantor. The meeting followed a roundtable...
EJC President Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor: Military Action against Iran Only Under UN Auspices
The President of the European Jewish Congress (EJC) Moshe Kantor made the comment to journalists Monday in Brussels where he chaired a gathering of...
In response to the Berlin Holocaust Memorial Attack. Statement of the European Jewish Congress
Following the desecration of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, as well as recent acts of anti-Semitism in numerous countries in Europe, the European Jewish...
European Jewish Congress Met with EU Leadership to Discuss Iranian Nuclear Threat, Growing Anti-Semitism, Promoting Tolerance and EU-Israel Relations
(Brussels, 1 July 2008) – The European Jewish Congress (EJC) today completed a series of meetings with EU top officials to discuss issues of...
European Jewish Congress President Kantor Meets with PACE President
Strasbourg- European Jewish Congress President Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor held a working meeting with the PACE President Lluis Maria de Puig to discuss a wide...
The Russian Jewish Congress Presents the Killing Sites of Russia Project
RJC researching mass graves of Jews shot by the Nazis during World War II.
The first stage of the Killing Sites of Russia project...
The European Jewish Congress Denounces Iranian President
(Paris, June 3, 2008)- The European Jewish Congress is deeply outraged and appalled that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be granted permission to attend...
Aleksander Kwasniewski attended the EJC Executive Meeting in Brussels
During the Executive meeting of the European Jewish Congress which convened yesterday, Wednesday, May 28th 2008, EJC President Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor announced the launch...
Jewish Community Celebrates 60th Anniversary of Israel with Concert at Great Choral Synagogue
On May 25, Russian Jews gathered in the Great Choral Synagogue to celebrate the 60 th anniversary of the founding of the State of...
Tour of Italy and Macedonia allows EJC Leaders to Salute Israel
(TORINO, Italy) Thursday morning, as people around the world saluted Israel’s Sixtieth Anniversary, the President of the Italian Republic, Mr. Giorgio Napolitano, and President...
President of the European Jewish Congress Visits Macedonia
President of the European Jewish Congress (EJC) and Russian Jewish Congress (RJC) Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor visited Macedonia on May 5-6 to meet with political...
Luxembourg Forum Advisory Council
On April 14, 2008, Russian and U.S. experts from the Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe gathered in Moscow to convene their first meeting...
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Speech by the President of the World Holocaust Forum Foundation Moshe Kantor at the Fifth World Holocaust Forum. Jerusalem
Your majesties,
Your Royal Highnesses,
Your Excellencies,
Distinguished guests,
And dear Holocaust survivors,
I would like to begin by expressing my deepest gratitude to President Rivlin, who two years...
“I am here”: Holocaust survivors mark Auschwitz liberation
Their faces lined by age and haunting memories, about 100 Holocaust survivors joined political leaders Thursday in Jerusalem to recall the liberation of the...
World leaders convene in Jerusalem to remember Holocaust and counter anti-semitism
Leaders from almost 50 countries gathered here Thursday to mark 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz and, drawing on the memory of its...
Kantor: Holocaust forum gives the jewish people around the world hope
World Holocaust Forum President Dr. Moshe Kantor: With current levels of emigration there could be no Jewish communities in Europe by 2050.
President of the...
