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The Shalom Organisation of the Jews in Bulgaria and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms have spoken out strongly against the planned February 15 2014 “Lukov March”, a torchlight procession […]
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev took part in a Chanukah candle-lighting ceremony at Sofia Central Synagogue on December 3 2013. Chanukah – the eight-day festival of light that begins on the […]
The Shalom Organisation of the Jews in Bulgaria has expressed concern at the strengthening of xenophobia, racism and extreme nationalism in Bulgarian society. The statement by the Jewish organisation came […]
The Haverim Festival of Bulgarian and Jewish spiritual music, dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the rescue of Bulgarian Jews from deportation to the Holocaust death camps, will be held […]
There was a strong turnout for the first Festival of Jewish Culture, held outside the National Palace of Culture in Sofia on September 15 2013. Visitors were introduced to Jewish […]
Shalom Sofia, the first festival of Jewish culture in the Bulgarian capital city, will be held on September 15 2013, beginning after the end of this year’s Yom Kippur. Culture […]
During World War 2, Bulgarians proved that civil society and the ordinary person have the strength to change history and that even the greatest evil may be averted, President Rossen […]
While Bulgaria’s premier place in Jewish history is in the prevention of the deportation of about 48 000 Bulgarian Jews to Holocaust death camps in World War 2, a landmark […]
Imagine a continent that stood by or actively helped or actively campaigned for the mass murder of six million of its people; then imagine that one of the countries on […]
Bulgaria held ceremonies on March 10 commemorating the 70th anniversary of the prevention of the deportation of Bulgarian Jews to Nazi Holocaust death camps and honouring the memory of the […]
