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Record number of anti-Semitic incidents recorded in Netherlands

Record number of anti-Semitic incidents recorded in Netherlands

Watchdog records 230 cases of anti-Jewish prejudice in 2018, 19% more than previous year; just 1 incident involved physical violence   JTA — The Netherlands… Read More ›

Brussels Jewish museum killer sentenced to life in prison

Brussels Jewish museum killer sentenced to life in prison

Prosecutors call jihadist Mehdi Nemmouche a ‘coward’ and a ‘psychopath’; Nacer Bendrer, who supplied murderer with weapons, jailed for 15 years   BRUSSELS, Belgium — The… Read More ›

Opening the Vatican archives won’t absolve the Church

Opening the Vatican archives won’t absolve the Church

Opinion: The Vatican’s silence in the face of Nazi genocide is a proven fact; there were many local initiatives to rescue Jews that were blessed… Read More ›

Trump said to tell GOP donors: ‘Democrats hate Jewish people’

Trump said to tell GOP donors: ‘Democrats hate Jewish people’

Boasting of his own popularity in Israel, US president reportedly says if he could run for prime minister he would be polling at 98 percent… Read More ›

Bitola, Macedonia – 2 Last Remaining Jews Of Bitola, Macedonia Attend Holocaust Commemoration

Bitola, Macedonia – 2 Last Remaining Jews Of Bitola, Macedonia Attend Holocaust Commemoration

  Bitola, Macedonia – About 200 people gathered in this Balkan nation’s second city for a Holocaust commemoration that became one of its largest Jewish… Read More ›

US Jews divided by House resolution condemning anti-Semitism, bigotry

US Jews divided by House resolution condemning anti-Semitism, bigotry

While some Jewish groups and leaders applaud the measure, others lambaste it for not mentioning Ilhan Omar by name or being watered down by inclusion… Read More ›

Mazel tov! Ahead of International Women’s Day, Marvel cinema births a (s)hero

Mazel tov! Ahead of International Women’s Day, Marvel cinema births a (s)hero

With an insider’s peek at the feminist film, our movie maven thinks up an elaborate ‘Captain Marvel’ back story in which the plot is a… Read More ›

Friedman: Why Can’t Antisemitism Be Rejected in Halls of Congress?

Friedman: Why Can’t Antisemitism Be Rejected in Halls of Congress?

In a tweet on Wednesday, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said, “when bigotry of any kind rears its ugly head, it must be and… Read More ›

Sweden teaching the Holocaust to young refugees

Sweden teaching the Holocaust to young refugees

Swedish educators talk about what they are doing to fight anti-Semitism within Sweden’s Muslim immigrant population, although police report no significant increase in anti-Semitic crimes;… Read More ›

Israel ranked 8th most powerful country in the world

Israel ranked 8th most powerful country in the world

Jewish state moves up to 29th on the best countries list, up one place from last year, but scores woefully low when rated as a… Read More ›

Dallas, TX – Art Collected By Jewish Lawyer Before WWII Goes To Auction

Dallas, TX – Art Collected By Jewish Lawyer Before WWII Goes To Auction

  Dallas, TX – About 200 works of art from a Jewish lawyer’s collection that were spirited out of Nazi Germany to the U.S. are… Read More ›

A relationship in need of Reform

A relationship in need of Reform

Slowly but surely, Israel’s relationship with liberal American Jewry is deteriorating; now, the Foreign Ministry has accused the Reform Movement of neglecting Israel at an… Read More ›

Ilhan Omar Says She is Accused of Antisemitism Because She’s Muslim

Ilhan Omar Says She is Accused of Antisemitism Because She’s Muslim

“A lot of our Jewish colleagues, our constituents and allies go to thinking that everything we say about Israel is antisemitic.”   Congresswoman Ihan Omar… Read More ›

Buenos Aires – Former Argentine President Cleared Of Meddling In Bombing Attack On Jewish Center

Buenos Aires – Former Argentine President Cleared Of Meddling In Bombing Attack On Jewish Center

  Buenos Aires –  A court absolved former President Carlos Menem on Thursday of charges he tried to interfere with the investigation into Argentina’s deadliest… Read More ›

Deborah Lipstadt Resigns Synagogue over Defense of Israeli Extremist Right

Deborah Lipstadt Resigns Synagogue over Defense of Israeli Extremist Right

“I cannot be associated with an organization that gives such racism, celebration of violence, and immoral policies a ‘heksher,’” or imprimatur, she wrote in an… Read More ›

Netanyahu underestimated US Jews’ revulsion toward Kahanists

Netanyahu underestimated US Jews’ revulsion toward Kahanists

Opinion: While the prime minister caused dismay among American Jewry by working to bring the racist rabbi’s followers back to the Knesset, they know all… Read More ›

German Jews Slam German President for Praising Antisemitic Iranian Regime

German Jews Slam German President for Praising Antisemitic Iranian Regime

“Why … after the Ayatollah Khamenei released a Holocaust denying video … did the president of Germany sent warm greetings to a regime that seeks… Read More ›

The tangled web of Israel’s extreme right, American Jewry and the US terror blacklist

The tangled web of Israel’s extreme right, American Jewry and the US terror blacklist

Former MK Michael Ben-Ari, who heads Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) and could return to Knesset thanks to a Netanyahu-blessed union with Jewish Home, has ties… Read More ›

Malka Leifer accused of sexual harassment in Israel before moving to Australia

Malka Leifer accused of sexual harassment in Israel before moving to Australia

Former education official says that rather than report her, community leaders moved woman to Melbourne, where is wanted on 74 counts of sexual misconduct against… Read More ›

Lapid: Imperative to stop Kahanists persuaded me to enter alliance with Gantz

Lapid: Imperative to stop Kahanists persuaded me to enter alliance with Gantz

‘Suddenly, everything else moved aside. I said, we must prevent this,’ Blue and White party No. 2 says about his decision to give up top… Read More ›