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Tijdens haar zitting van 22 april 2015, heeft de Algemene Vergadering van het Centraal Israëlitisch Consistorie van België (CICB) Meester Philippe Markiewicz verkozen tot voorzitter van het CICB.Meester Markiewicz volgt aldus Julien Baron Klener op, die de eerbiedwaardige tweehonderdjarige instelling deze 15 laatste jaren heeft voorgezeten.Wij wensen de nieuwe voorzitter veel succes toe.
Your Majesties,
Mr. Prime Minister
Your Excellencies,
Ladies and gentlemen, all of whom are dignitaries in your jobs, titles and official capacities
Ladies and gentlemen representatives of the Jewish and Gypsy communities,
Dear invitees,
The thing that distinguishes victims of the Holocaust from other victims of war is the intention of their murderers to ensure that the race to which they [...]
Sir, Madam,
Mr. Prime Minister
Your Excellencies,
Ladies and gentlemen, all of whom are dignitaries in your jobs, titles and official capacities
Ladies and gentlemen representatives of the Jewish and Gypsy communities,
Dear invitees,
Today, at this historically emotional site of Kazerne Dossin, at this place of remembrance a new piece of history is being written. For it is indeed today [...]
Your Majesty,
Honourable ministers from Belgium and abroad,
Your excellencies,
Madam Governor,
Mr Mayor,
Ladies and gentlemen,
The whitewashed wall of the former Dossin Barracks rises up opposite this new museum building. Between 1942 and 1944, a gruesome plan was carried out behind this wall, only a few metres from where we sit today. At the time, the Nazis used this [...]
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The word razzia is sad and repellent. The razzia like a police-orchestrated manhunt of the innocent is the repulsive act that we are remembering this evening. Those who remember stand still and look back. To remember is to interrupt, briefly, the flow of the everyday to recall together events or people from [...]
Shalom!
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Belgium’s recognized Jewish communities, in words and pictures
The archives of our newsletter, Les Nouvelles Consistoriales/Consistoriaal Nieuwsblad
The coming edition of our newsletter
Links to other sites related to the Jewish community and Judaism
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May 14, 2012
Joëlle Milquet
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior and Equal Opportunity
Rue de la Loi, 2
1000 Brussels
Mrs. Milquet,
We were extremely pleased to learn that this past May 9th the mayor of Brussels prohibited the highly controversial French “comedian” Dieudonné, who is well known for his negationism and anti-Jewish positions, from performing in Brussels, [...]
On Monday, March 19, 2012, the children and staff of a Jewish school in Toulouse were the victims of an unqualifiably savage attack. A man opened fire on some parents who were taking their children to school, chased the children who fled towards the schoolyard, and gunned them down without scruples and in cold blood. [...]
Press release of the Jewish Central Consistory of Belgium
It is with great sorrow that the Jewish Central Consistory of Belgium informs you of its loss with the passing of its Honorary President, Baron Georges Schnek.
Baron Georges Schnek was an extremely committed member of the Resistance during the years of Nazi domination, professor of chemistry at [...]