US President Donald Trump spoke once again of his “personal connection” to Judaism on Thursday, as he held a telephone call with American Jewish leaders to mark Rosh Hashanah — the Jewish New Year which begins on Sunday night.
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s National Museum said Wednesday that centuries-old Torah scrolls, considered to be some of Judaism’s oldest documents, had been moved before a massive fire ravaged the place and gutted much of the largest collections of national history artifacts in Latin America.
The UK Labour Party agreed on Tuesday to adopt the full international definition of anti-Semitism in an effort to lay months of public rows and ugly accusations to rest. For now, anyway.
LVIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian city of Lviv, once a major center of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, is commemorating the 75th anniversary of the annihilation of the city’s Jewish population by Nazi Germany and honoring those working today to remember and preserve what they can of that vanished world.
A petition demanding UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn resign over the party’s inability to deal with anti-Semitism claims is gathering strength, with over 10,000 signatures added in just 48-hours.
VILNIUS, Lithuania — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Jews were still at risk even decades after the Holocaust, as he wrapped up a groundbreaking visit to Lithuania, a Baltic state once home to his forefathers.
Len McCluskey, leader of the Unite trade union, entered Labour’s anti-Semitism row with an extraordinary attack on the party leader’s critics, accusing them of exploiting the scandal to weaken him.
The term anti-Semitism is an entirely false construct designed to shield Jews from criticism for any wrongdoing, making them the only race that is beyond reproach, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Monday.
Anti-Semitic incidents in Germany have risen by 10 percent over the course of the first half of 2018 when compared with the same period in 2017, latest figures reveal.
BERLIN — Germany’s jailed “Nazi grandma” Ursula Haverbeck, 89, on Friday lost a challenge before the country’s highest court, which reaffirmed that constitutional free speech guarantees do not cover Holocaust denial.
A key ally of UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has been recorded berating Jewish “Trump fanatics” for inventing claims of anti-Semitism now swamping the hard-left party.
A member of the Scottish Labour Party has accused the UK’s three main Jewish newspapers of being agents in the pay of Mossad, the Israeli secret security agency.
LUCKAU, Germany — Sophie Steiert opens a bag of kosher gummy bears and offers them to 20 other German teenagers seated around her in their high school classroom.
The UK’s three main Jewish newspapers have joined as one to publish the same front page, damning Jeremy Corbyn and the left-wing Labour Party as posing an “existential threat to Jewish life.”
Asher Shalom, the immigrant owner of a business who employs many immigrants, says he cannot understand why his recently opened café was protested ostensibly over his support for President Trump and White House immigration policies.
NEW YORK — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says while he finds Holocaust denial “deeply offensive,” he doesn’t believe that such content should be banned from Facebook.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian leadership has condemned a Jewish women’s annual march marking the fast day of Tisha B’Av and the destruction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem as a provocation aimed at “Judaizing” the capital, and labeling it “a rebellion against international legitimacy.”
An Islamist migrant who police allege savagely murdered a 65-year-old Jewish woman in Paris is considered unfit to stand trial, according to a psychiatric evaluation.
The UK Labour Party’s inability to engage with its own Jewish membership has again been thrown into the open as a party affiliate threatens to sue it over a new, softer definition of anti-Semitism.
Labour MP Naz Shah has been made a shadow equalities minister two years after admitting her “ignorance” about discrimination against Jews during a row over anti-Semitism in the party.
A sharp rise in attacks on Jewish students in the German school system has prompted authorities to recruit 170 anti-bullying experts to combat the problem.
Geneva-based UN Watch has accused global agencies charged with combating racism of failing to act against hatred, incitement and violence against Jews.
Ten people have been detained by German police in the wake of an alleged anti-Semitic attack in a Berlin park, with local media reporting all involved are Syrian migrants.
The UK Labour Party’s new anti-Semitism code of conduct has been labelled “toothless” by angry campaigners and community groups.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority has slammed the ongoing Jerusalem Festival of Light as an Israeli attempt to “Judaize” the city.
The first female tank commanders have finished their Armored Corps training in Israel and a British-born graduate is amongst them.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told Britain’s Prince William on Wednesday that the Palestinian leadership is committed to peace with Israel.
A district court in Sweden found three men guilty of attempted arson against the Jewish synagogue in Sweden’s second-largest city of Gothenburg last year.
TEL AVIV – In an interview with Israel’s Army Radio Monday, former Senator Joe Lieberman discussed the growing rift between Israel and progressive Jewry in the U.S., as well as expressing his pride in repealing the U.S. Army’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for homosexual soldiers, and asserting his belief that a Jew could one day become president of the United States.
A Syrian migrant will face court in Berlin on Tuesday after he was caught whipping two Jewish men who were wearing traditional kippah skullcaps.
Jewish artifacts, including ancient parchment Torahs from one of the world’s oldest synagogues, have gone missing from the Syrian capital amid the tumult of ongoing civil war, with some precious items reportedly surfacing abroad.
Sustained anti-Semitism in UK Labour is driving young students away from the party with many directly blaming party leader Jeremy Corbyn for his lack of action on the matter.
Sappers detonated an improvised explosive device found near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron on Sunday, police said. Border police manning a station just outside the tomb noticed the suspicious device and immediately cleared the area and summoned the sappers.
TEL AVIV – 250 people signed an open letter Tuesday calling on Columbia University to urge a professor to step down over his “anti-Semitic bigotry” after he claimed Israel is behind “every dirty treacherous ugly and pernicious act happening in the world.” Hamid
A poll on attitudes to minorities in Western Europe found that nearly a quarter of British respondents would be unwilling to accept Jews as family members.
TEL AVIV – Converting to Judaism is the “most important thing right now,” NBA All-Star Amar’e Stoudemire told Breitbart Jerusalem in an exclusive interview Monday.
Prince Charles will the guest of honor at Platinum — Celebrating Israel at 70, at the Royal Albert Hall on 24th May. The concert will be a salute to Israeli arts and culture as the Jewish state celebrates 70 years since its foundation.
Unknown assailants destroyed several Jewish headstones in a cemetery in a southwestern suburb of Athens, Greek police said Saturday, announcing they would launch an investigation.
DJERBA, Tunisia — Thousands of people participated in an annual Jewish pilgrimage to Tunisia’s famed Ghriba synagogue, which ended Thursday night without incident under heavy security.
Jeremy Corbyn’s left-wing Labour Party has been punished at the ballot box for its inability to deal with allegations of anti-Semitism.
