World Jewish Congress

Makkabi Berlin, founded by Holocaust survivors, to be 1st Jewish team in German Cup

By CiarÁn Fahey — August 11, 2023
BERLIN (AP) — When the annual competition was started under the Nazis in 1935, Jews weren’t allowed to take part.

Ronald Lauder: Nostra Aetate was a ‘miracle’ for Catholic-Jewish relations

By Rosie Scammell — October 28, 2015
ROME (RNS) Marking the 50th anniversary of the declaration, 150 Jewish leaders gathered in Rome and on Wednesday took part in a papal audience.

Pope Francis to Jews: We’re all under attack now

By Josephine McKenna — September 18, 2014
VATICAN CITY (RNS) "He said first it was your turn and now it is our turn. In other words, first Jews suffered savage attacks that were met with the world's silence and now it is Christians who are being annihilated and the world is silent."

Philanthropist Edgar Bronfman Sr. devoted his life to Jewish survival

By Cathy Lynn Grossman — December 23, 2013
(RNS) Heir to the Seagram's beverage fortune, he devoted half his life to Jewish leadership, community and philanthropic projects worldwide.
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