"#MenachemRosensaft was pleasantly surprised this week to learn that a historical marker honoring a #Nazi #collaborator that has been a bane of his existence for years had been removed.

Then panic set in: Could #NewYorkCity really be planning to reinstall the plaque honoring #PierreLaval, the #Vichy prime minister during #WorldWarII who was executed for treason?

“It’s one thing of making a decision to remove something,” #Rosensaft told the #Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “It’s quite another to make a conscious decision, of doing the work in order to replace it and put it back.”

For years, Rosensaft — general counsel emeritus of the #WorldJewishCongress and the son of #Holocaust survivors — has lobbied against the plaques honoring #Laval and #PhilippePétain, hero of the #French army during #WorldWarI and later head collaborator with the Nazi regime. They are two of 206 names embedded on a half-mile stretch of #LowerBroadway known as the “#CanyonofHeroes.”

https://www.jta.org/2026/02/05/united-states/a-maligned-marker-honoring-a-french-nazi-sympathizer-is-off-nycs-streets-for-now/

How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory
The businessman, Bolton learned, was Ronald Lauder. Heir to a makeup fortune – the global cosmetics brand Estée Lauder – he had known Trump, a fellow wealthy New Yorker, for more than 60 years.
#greenland #groenland #trump #europe #EsteeLauder #WorldJewishCongress #WJC #Corruption #rareearths #CriticalMinerals #Ukraine #Lithium #TechMet

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/15/ronald-lauder-billionaire-donor-donald-trump-ukraine-greenland

"Uprooting the #Diaspora examines changes in #international, or rather #transnational, patterns of thinking about #Jewish belonging in two East-Central #European countries, #Poland and #Czechoslovakia. Its unique feature is that it cuts through three short but distinct historical periods: the #interwarperiod, the #Holocaust, and the early #postwar periods. Sarah A. Cramsey’s work shows how, gradually, between the years 1936-1946, a part of the transnational Jewish leadership, particularly those active in the #WorldJewishCongress, came to the conclusion that East-Central Europe could no longer be a home for its native Jewish communities. At the same time, the #author questions the basic #historical #teleology related to this problem: the idea that this conclusion was inevitable, even as early as the late 1930s or the beginning of the #SecondWorldWar."

https://ceureviewofbooks.com/review/jewish-belonging-in-east-central-europe/

WJC Expresses Support For Katharina von Schnurbein, European Commission Coordinator On Combating Antisemitism and Fostering Jewish Life

BRUSSELS – The World Jewish Congress (WJC) joined dozens of major Jewish organizations and Jewish communities from across Europe and…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #IL #Israel #worldjewishcongress
https://www.newsbeep.com/82837/