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The United Patriots, the grouping of nationalist and far-right parties that is the minority partner in Bulgaria’s government, made a formal declaration in the National Assembly on September 21 marking […]
The Shalom Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria’s leadership has held talks with the Bulgarian Socialist Party Sofia, part of a series of meetings with political parties. Shalom earlier met […]
Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry said on September 15 that it condemned the vandalism of gravestones in the Jewish section of Central Sofia Cemetery. The vandalism was reported to the Shalom Organization […]
The Kvartal Festival 2017, the second of its kind, will be held in the Bulgarian capital from September 15 to 17, as on Sunday the city celebrates the Day of […]
Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission, the body charged by law to check people in public life for links to the country’s communist-era secret services, announced on September 12 the names of six […]
A monument erected in Bulgaria’s Vidin by Israelis from the town has been defaced, daubed with the words “Allah”, “Palestine”, “Hamas” and the star and crescent moon symbol, the Shalom […]
In Bulgaria, minority religious groups, including Jehovah’s Witnesses, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), while Muslims reported incidents of harassment and hostile rhetoric by members of some […]
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) has decided to accept Bulgaria as a liaison country, the first state to take the next step towards full membership since 2009. The decision […]
Bulgarian Jewish organisations, in a statement on June 28, condemned the previous day’s assault on the wife and two daughters of Birali Birali, Deputy Chief Mufti of Bulgaria and one […]
At a moving ceremony at the Sofia Central Synagogue on June 8, the Shalom Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria and the Central Israelite Spiritual Council conferred formal honours on […]
