Yaakov Schwartz is The Times of Israel s deputy Jewish World editor.
Illustrative: People attend a ceremony that commemorates the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Budapest Jewish ghetto in Dohany Street Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary on January 19, 2020. (Tibor Illyes/MTI via AP)
In an extraordinary attempt at overseas intervention, an Israeli rabbinical court has ordered a freeze on reparations payments by the Hungarian government to Hungarian Jewish groups, as three religious denominations disagree on how those funds are divided between them. The injunction, ordered Wednesday by the Jerusalem Supreme Rabbinate court part of Israel’s judiciary system is nonbinding, as the court has no jurisdiction in Hungary.
April 23, 2021 11:54 am Pavlina Šulcová, the founder of JCC Prague, at her apartment in the Czech capital in 2020. (Courtesy of Šulcová)
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(JTA) In early 2020, Pavlina Šulcová was on the verge of making history in her hometown: She had identified a space that could house the Czech Republic’s first modern Jewish community center.
The building, nestled amid the maze of red roofs, alleyways and bridges that make the Old City of Prague an enduring tourist attraction, was charming. Constructed in the 18th century, it had both an atrium and a garden. Best of all, it was affordable.
Šulcová had just returned from a decade-long stint working in Tel Aviv for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic. She knew she had found a location that could help her inject some of the vitality of Jewish life in Israel into Prague’s Jewish community.
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Four representatives of ethnic minorities will pay tribute to the victims of the World War II concentration camp Jasenovac on Thursday at a separate ceremony to that to be attended by state leaders.
“That means that ethnic minorities will this year not attend the commemoration with the state leadership,” Serb National Council (SNV) spokesman Eugen Jakovčić told
Hina news agency. Attending the commemoration will be SNV president Milorad Pupovac, the leader of the Coordinating Committee of the Jewish Communities of Croatia, Ognjen Kraus, Roma association “Kali Sara” representative Veljko Kajtazi, and the leader of the SABA, association of anti-fascist fighters, Franjo Habulin.
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Ten Jewish gravestones in Belfast, Northern Ireland, have recently been vandalized, and police are investigating the incident as a hate crime. The incident occurred in the midst of a recent wave of violence in the city.
“City Cemetery, like any graveyard, is a place where members of the community come to pay their respects,” Police Service Northern Ireland Inspector Róisín Brown told the Irish Times. “The damage to these graves shows a total lack of respect for others and will have a significant impact on individuals and families within the Jewish community.”
The Community Security Trust, the security arm of the Jewish community in the United Kingdom, said it is coordinating with the local police to find the perpetrates.