ATHENS, Greece (JTA) — The Greek Jewish community has protested to the Greek National Tourism Agency after its website and brochures listed the Easter practice of “Judas burning” as a recommended folk attraction. “This custom perpetuates anti-Semitic feelings and it is characteristic that in other European countries it has almost vanished,” said the letter sent…
The Brown University chapter of the historically Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi has separated from the international organization and become an independent fraternity. The president of the new fraternity, now called Beta Rho Pi, said the chapter broke with the international organization over biases against non-Jewish members as well as its handling of the issue…
(JTA) — Less than a month after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signaled a readiness to mend ties with Israel after years of antipathy, a delegation of American Jewish leaders has embarked on a trip to embrace Turkey’s longtime rival Greece. Members of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations are in the…
Greece’s parliament is scheduled to vote in favor of recognizing Palestinian statehood. The vote, scheduled to take place on Dec. 22, will be on a non-binding resolution similar to the ones passed in recent months by France’s National Assembly, the European Parliament and Britain’s House of Commons. Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority,…
For the better part of a decade, my family’s Thanksgiving morning ritual began with someone popping our worn-out “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” DVD into the DVD player. The movie looped throughout the day as we cooked, with the bickering of Maria Portokalos and Aunt Voula mimicking the sounds of my mom and aunts as…
The Greek Jewish community protested after one of Greece’s main newspapers published a caricature of former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis as a “Jewish moneylender.” The image, which shows Varoufakis wearing a giant black skullcap and hunched over a ledger, counting bags and coins of gold, was published Friday in Ta Nea, one of the country’s…
The main Jewish cemetery in Athens was vandalized with swastikas and anti-Jewish graffiti. The vandals sprayed “Fuck Jews” and a Nazi swastika on one of the cemetery walls and a swastika and the German word “Raus,” meaning get out, along with the tag C-18 on the cemetery gate pillar. C-18 refers to Combat 18 Hellas,…
A Greek official warned the country’s parliament that a pending bill to open up the Greek drug market to cheap generic drugs was the result of a conspiracy between Germany and Jewish groups. During Wednesday’s debate, Dimitris Giannakopoulos, the president of the Hellenic Association of Pharmaceutical Companies, said 11,000 Greek jobs would be lost and…
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