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This years Diplomacy Summit was like no other. As 120 hostages remain in Gaza and the explosive rise in antisemitism around the world, the Lauder Fellows advocated for the release of the hostages and urged world leaders to take action to address the antisemitism that has creeped its way into the classroom.

The festival of Shavuot celebrates the moment in biblical history when, amid the uncertainty of wandering through the desert, the children of Israel received the Torah - the guidelines for their very lives - and became the Jewish people. No matter where we find ourselves, we the Jewish people are connected and responsible for each other, as one. Kol Yisraʾel arevim zeh laZeh.

Speaking at the Jerusalem Post conference in New York, WJC President Ronald S. Lauder reflected on the historic times the Jewish people are living through, the importance of Jewish unity, and the multi-front war Israel is facing, both on her borders and social media.

Members of WJC's Executive Committee met in Israel in May 2024.

In just 36 hours from May 24-25, 1991, over 14,000 Ethiopian Jews were rescued from the region and brought to Israel and a new home. It was one of the biggest rescue operations in Israel's history, known as Operation Solomon.

The Farhud, meaning 'violent dispossession' in Arabic, was an anti-Jewish pogrom carried out in Baghdad, Iraq on June 1, 1941. A vicious mob went door to door to Jewish homes in Baghdad, killing, raping, looting. Horrific scenes which are familiar to us yet again from October 7. It was a shocking turning point for the Iraqi Jewish community.

During the Bosnian War of 1992-1995, ethnic cleansing was committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina against Bosnian Muslim and Croatian civilians. In the region of Prijedor, thousands of people were rounded up and sent to concentration camps, where they were murdered, beaten, raped, starved. Over 3,000 innocent people were killed in Prijedor during the war. On May 31st every year, the victims of ethn...

Lag Ba'Omer is a Jewish holiday celebrated with bonfires. This is the history behind Lag Ba'Omer and its traditions.

⚽️ Football brings the world together 🌎 With representatives of the German Football League and clubs across the first and second divisions, we visited Israel on the occasion of Yom HaShoah to shine a light on the reality of the country today and the impact of the October 7th attacks on society.

Michal Greenglick is the sister of Shauli Greenglick z”l who fell on 26 December fighting in Gaza in the Nahal Brigades. In Jerusalem, during the opening dinner for the WJC Executive Committee Meeting, Michal shared her story through music.

It has been more than seven months since October 7, the day Hamas committed the largest massacre against the Jewish people since the Holocaust and took over 220 people hostage. In Germany, Berlin’s Bebelplatz was renamed to “Hamas Hostages Square” to raise awareness about the unfathomable plight of the remaining 128 hostages and to iterate our demand for their immediate and unconditional releas...

Yiddish actor and activist Ester-Rochl Kamińska was known as the 'mother of Jewish theatre.' Today, the Ester Rachel Kamińska and Ida Kamińska State Jewish Theater in Warsaw continues the rich traditions of pre-war Jewish theatrical stages in Poland.

Chag Purim is a unique holiday in the Jewish calendar, as it tells how one Jewish woman, Queen Esther, was able to save her entire people from the hands of their enemies in ancient Persia.

'Operation Ezra and Nehemiah,' beginning in May 1951, was a special Israeli mission to rescue the Jews of Iraq. Over several months, Israel airlifted 120,000-130,000 Jews from turbulence in Iraq, bringing them to safety in Israel. The operation paved the way for future Israeli airlifts of persecuted Jews around the world.

WJC Jewish Diplomatic Corps Israel Solidarity Mission

Israel at 76

Yom HaZikaron 2024: In remembrance of Israel's fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism

Empowering Transatlantic Civil Society Responses to Online Antisemitism Across Latin America

The Jewish Brigade, a WWII-era Jewish fighting unit

A gem of Jewish heritage: The Sarajevo Haggadah

The Jewish world through the Haggadah

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the military arm of the Iranian regime

Iran's genocidal threats against Israel

The daring Israeli mission to bring Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann to justice

Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi-Montalcini

In photos: Six months since October 7

WJC at UNHRC│WJC Highlights the Importance of Interfaith Relations

In memory of Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman