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The Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria “Shalom” has lodged a written complaint with the country’s National Coordinator against Antisemitism over an article on the Bulgarian-language Trud website titled “The […]
Continuing the tradition set by Bulgaria’s democratically-elected heads of state, President Roumen Radev joined the country’s Jewish commu ...
The Council of the European Union approved on December 6 a declaration on the fight against antisemitism and the development of a common security appr ...
Bulgaria’s Deputy Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev, who is the country’s National Co-ordinator for Combating Antisemitism, has signed on be ...
At a ceremony in Sofia on November 22, Bulgaria’s high state honour the Order of the Madara Horseman was conferred on Robert Singer, chief executive and executive vice president of […]
Responding to objections from various faiths, parties in Bulgaria’s Parliament are revising amendments to the Religious Denomination Act before the bill is put to a second reading. This emerged after […]
Children from different communities in Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv planted a “Garden of Tolerance” on November 16 to mark the International Day of Tolerance. Taking part in the tree-planting were […]
The 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the pogrom unleashed on Jews by Nazi Germany ahead of the Holocaust, was commemorated in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia on November 9 with an open lesson […]
Damage from a Second World War bomb has been found during renovations of Sofia Central Synagogue. During an extensive bombing campaign by the Allies against Bulgaria – then a member […]
I have been in politics for 17 years and I have never seen the Bulgarian Jewish community as united as it is today, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said at a […]
