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The president of the Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria “Shalom”, Associate Professor Alexander Oscar, is lodging court action for defamation against a Bulgarian website that sought to link him […]
At an annual ceremony in Sofia on March 10, tribute was paid to those who in 1943 rescued the Bulgarian Jews from deportation to Nazi death camps and to the […]
The Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria “Shalom” has expressed its strong condemnation and opposition to the holding of the Lukov March on the streets of capital city Sofia. The […]
The World Jewish Congress (WJC) has urged Bulgarian Academy of Science head Julian Revalski to publicly correct the gross historical manipulation at a “national round table” that claimed that labour […]
The Central Israelite Religious Council has written to Prosecutor-General Ivan Geshev commending the steps taken against antisemitism and hate speech in Bulgarian society as well as against the Bulgarian National […]
A January 30 ceremony at Sofia Central Synagogue commemorated the victims of the Holocaust and honoured those who rescued the Bulgarian Jews from deportation. Jointly organised by the Organization of […]
It is January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. A day on which international leaders gather, and swear, hand on heart: Never Again. A day on which the reality of the […]
In a message on January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria “Shalom” spoke of remembrance of the suffering of Bulgarian Jews because of antisemitic […]
Bulgarian President Roumen Radev, attending the World Holocaust Forum 2020 at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on January 23, said: “Bulgaria is here with head held high because it did not […]
The World Jewish Congress says that it stands with its affiliate, the Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria Shalom, in expressing concern over a national round table held on January […]
