TEL AVIV – Armed security guards should be deployed at every synagogue and Jewish community center across the United States, the U.S. Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism Elan Carr said on Wednesday
The Central Consistory of France, the body that represents French Jewry in matters of religion, confirmed Wednesday the city of Paris will name a square in honor Jerusalem.
AMSTERDAM — On the day Anne Frank would have turned 90, the museum dedicated to keeping alive her story has brought together schoolchildren and two of the Jewish diarist’s friends at the apartment where she lived with her family before going into hiding from Nazis who occupied the Netherlands during World War II.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A rabbi in Rosario, the third most populous city in Argentina, was verbally and physically attacked in violence that has been characterized as antisemitic.
A science lecturer at the UK’s University of Essex has lost his job after an antisemitism fight sparked by the formation of a campus Jewish society.
A bare 24-hours after the German government warned Jews not to wear their traditional kippah in public places due to rising antisemitism, it now wants them to continue the practice to help defeat anti-Jewish sentiment.
TEL AVIV – A Christian couple posing as ultra-Orthodox Jews in a heavily Jewish Chicago neighborhood have admitted they did so to spread the word of Jesus.
Bernard Dargols, a Paris-born Jew and only French soldier to fight in an American uniform as Allied forces stormed ashore at Normandy’s Omaha Beach in a battle signaling the end of World War II, has died aged 98.
TEL AVIV – The American Jewish Committee (AJC) continued its crusade against the New York Times over its “grotesquely” anti-Semitic cartoon, calling on the newspaper to make good on its promise to make “significant changes.”
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the “abhorrent” shooting attack in a Poway, California Chabad synagogue on Saturday that killed one woman and wounded three others.
Some 1,500 worshipers arrived early morning Wednesday for prayers at the Tomb of Joseph in Nablus, according to media reports.
WARSAW, Poland — The Catholic Church in Poland poured scorn Monday on an anti-Semitic ritual enacted over the Easter holiday that involved an effigy of Judas represented by a stereotypical Jew being hanged, burned and beaten.
Rabbis stand ready join the ranks of the German army for the first time in 100 years, as the Bundeswehr looks to expand pastoral care for Jews in all services amid signs of a resurgence of anti-Semitism.
TEL AVIV – A 2,600 bulla (seal impression) and a stamp dating back to the First Temple era bearing Hebrew inscriptions have been uncovered as part of archaeological excavations at the City of David’s Givati Parking Lot in Jerusalem.
Joe Lieberman said Democrats “failed a moral test” on antisemitism in their response to Ilhan Omar’s comments about Israel.
FALL RIVER, Massachusetts — Police say 59 gravestones at a Jewish cemetery in Massachusetts were defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti, about twice as many as initially thought.
ZARQA, Jordan — Jordan’s King Abdullah II is vowing to keep protecting Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem, calling it a “red line” for his country.
TEL AVIV — A bill that would define anti-Semitism as racism, bar religion-based discrimination at schools and universities as well the demonization of Israel was unanimously approved by the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee Tuesday.
President Donald Trump reportedly told a room full of Republican donors on Friday night that “the Democrats hate Jewish people.”
Jexodus spokesperson Elizabeth Pipko explained her movement’s plans to help young Jews reject partisan Democrat and left-wing politics.
Paris — A surge in anti-Semitic violence and hate speech has prompted soul-searching for many in France, which has long wrestled with its history of discrimination and prejudice against Jews.
Argentina’s Chief Rabbi has been taken to hospital after being beaten in a night-time attack at his home in the capital Buenos Aires. Rabbi Gabriel Davidovich said his wife was restrained during the break-in while he was attacked.
New measures to tackle soaring anti-Semitism across France were announced by President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday, including a law to reduce online hate speech.
Jerusalem — Israeli Immigration Minister Yoav Gallant called Tuesday on French Jews to “come home” to Israel following the anti-Semitic vandalism of a cemetery in eastern France.
JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister says his government will allocate the necessary funds to complete the long-promised establishment of a museum honoring Jewish World War II veterans.
Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party has been targeted as a key driver behind a record number of attacks on Jewish people across the UK in 2018.
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Against the backdrop of the first papal visit to the Arabian Peninsula is an interfaith conference that includes prominent US rabbis and Christian evangelicals, who are seeking stronger recognition of Israel through closer ties with Muslim figures and Arab leaders.
TEL AVIV – Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour was blasted as an “anti-Semite” on Sunday by a former co-chair of the movement who lashed out at Sarsour for endorsing the idea that Jews are waging a war on the black community.
TEL AVIV – Malaysia’s prime minister said his country has a “right” to deny entry to Israelis and that it was “unfair to label him as anti-Semitic” due to his anti-Semitic remarks, which have included calling Jews “hook-nosed” and claiming they have an obsession with money.
A Palestinian-American man who last month was sentenced to life in prison by a Palestinian Authority court for attempting to sell land to Jews has been released and handed over to the Americans, the Kan broadcaster reported Thursday.
A bipartisan bill to elevate the status of the U.S. special envoy on anti-Semitism overwhelmingly passed in the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly on Friday.
The remains of six unidentified Holocaust victims will be buried in a formal Jewish funeral more than 20 years after an Auschwitz survivor found them at the site of the former death camp.
Thousands of Jewish families will leave Britain if the government goes ahead with plans to force schools to promote LGBT lifestyles to children, an Orthodox campaigner has warned.
TEL AVIV — As Belgium ushered in the New Year last night, an edict went into effect officially banning kosher slaughter in the country’s Flanders region, where about half of Belgium’s Jewish population lives.
JERUSALEM — Simcha Rotem, the last known Jewish fighter from the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazis, has died. He was 94.
TEL AVIV – Israel is launching a government-wide initiative to encourage as many as 200,000 French Jews to immigrate to Israel, Diaspora Affairs Minister Naftali Bennett announced Wednesday.
The Dutch national railway company says it will set up a commission to investigate how it can pay individual reparations for its role in mass deportations of Jews by Nazi occupiers during World War II.
TEL AVIV – Two Palestinians were sentenced to 15 years of hard labour after a Palestinian Authority court on Wednesday found them guilty of selling land to Jews.
TEL AVIV – An extremely rare stone weight inscribed with a word from the Hebrew Bible dating back 3,000 years was discovered by archaeologists near the Western Wall.
TEL AVIV – Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour released a statement Tuesday apologizing on behalf of her organization for “causing a lot of harm and pain” to its Jewish members and for not expressing the movement’s commitment to fighting anti-Semitism.
