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Greek Court Bans Kosher and Halal Slaughter

The Hellenic Council of State banned kosher and halal slaughter on Tuesday. Kosher and halal preparations of animals are central to Jewish and Muslim religious practices. Both practices require animals to be killed without being anesthetized. The Panhellenic Animal Welfare...

Campaign to Save Rare Synagogue Mosaics on Aegina Island, Greece

Mosaics under an ancient synagogue from the 4th century BC, with geometrical patterns and two Greek inscriptions, were discovered on Greece's Aegina Island in the nineteenth century. This major find by German archaeologist Ludwig Ross in 1829 represented an important landmark...

Jewish Communities Welcome Greek Minister's Denunciation of Neo-Nazi Past

The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece expressed appreciation for the denunciation by Agricultural Development & Food Minister Makis Voridis of his neo-Nazi past. In a radio interview, Board Secretary General Victor Eliezer had called on Voridis to explicitly...

Construction of Holocaust Museum in Thessaloniki to Start in January

The mayor of Thessaloniki announced that construction for the long awaited Holocaust Museum in the city, will begin in January. Yannis Boutaris said during a meeting of the municipal council on Tuesday, that the museum "will be a project of...

Greek Parliament Honors Jewish Holocaust Survivors

The Greek parliament will honor the Greek Jewish victims and survivors of the holocaust during a ceremony on January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is the first time since 2004, when the Greek parliament established the Day of Remembrance for...

Thessaloniki Mayor Congratulated By Melbourne’s Jewish Community

The Jewish Community of Melbourne praised Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris for his efforts to restore and honor the city's Jewish history at an event held in the parliament of Victoria entitled “Jews of Thessaloniki.” The event was organized by the Thessaloniki “White...

Greek Angelo Chalikias Honored for Saving Niso Moustaki

On January 27, 2014 the Greek patriot Angelo Chalikias was awarded in a special ceremony in Montreal’s town hall, with the “Righteous Among the Nations” medal for saving the Jewish-Greek Niso Moustaki during the German occupation of Greece. The...

Department of Jewish Studies Founded in Thessaloniki University

During a meeting on February 6, the rector of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Yannis Mylopoulos and the president of the Jewish community of the city David Saltiel, agreed on the foundation of a department of Jewish studies...

Greek and Jewish Communities Unite in Toronto

During the Greek exhibition in the State Museum of the Holocaust of Auschwitz event,  co-organized by the Jewish organization B'nai Brith Canada and the Consulate General of Greece in Toronto, the Canadian ambassador of Greece, Mr. Eleftherios Angelopoulos, stressed...

Thessaloniki Jews Commemorate Deportation by Nazis

On March 15, 1943, the first train to Auschwitz left Thessaloniki, taking about 2, 800 Jews from the city. In memory of the first Holocaust victims from Thessaloniki, memorial events will take place in the city titled, Never Again....