{"id":468,"date":"2011-12-28T14:18:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T13:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fzo.cz\/en\/?p=468"},"modified":"2011-12-28T14:18:06","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T13:18:06","slug":"the-european-jewish-congress-mourns-the-passing-of-vaclav-havel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fzo.cz\/en\/468\/the-european-jewish-congress-mourns-the-passing-of-vaclav-havel\/","title":{"rendered":"The European Jewish Congress Mourns the Passing of Vaclav Havel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The European Jewish Congress (EJC) mourns the passing  of former Czech Republic president Vaclav Havel. Havel was known as a  great friend of the Jews and did much to confront anti-Semitism and  teach the lessons of the dark chapter of the Holocaust during his two  terms in office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">EJC President Dr. Moshe Kantor, who was a colleague of Havel\u2019s on the  European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation, said that he will be  sadly missed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHaving personally worked with him, I can attest to the tremendous  moral qualities of President Havel,\u201d Kantor said. \u201cHe was a figure for a  new and modern Europe to emulate. President Havel lived through  communism and led the Czech Republic to a new era helping move his  countrymen through a troubled past to a more open, free and tolerant  future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cPresident Havel was a true and steadfast friend of the Jewish People and will be missed by European Jewry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The EJC extends its sympathies to the family of Vaclav Havel and the Czech people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurojewcong.org\/ejc\/news.php?id_article=7230\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.eurojewcong.org\/ejc\/news.php?id_article=7230<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Jewish Congress (EJC) mourns the passing of former Czech Republic president Vaclav Havel. Havel was known as a great friend of the Jews and did much to confront anti-Semitism and teach the lessons of the dark chapter of the Holocaust during his two terms in office. EJC President Dr. Moshe Kantor, who was a colleague of Havel\u2019s on the European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation, said that he will be sadly missed. \u201cHaving personally worked with him, I &hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"cist-vice\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fzo.cz\/en\/468\/the-european-jewish-congress-mourns-the-passing-of-vaclav-havel\/\">&#8230;read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fzo.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fzo.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fzo.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fzo.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fzo.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fzo.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/www.fzo.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fzo.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fzo.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fzo.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}