World Jewish News

Austria’s Nazi past encroaches on election campaign

Austria’s Nazi past encroaches on election campaign

As elections in Austria approach Sunday, politicians are superimposing rivals’ faces onto likenesses of Adolf Hitler; Austria has only come to terms with its Nazi… Read More ›

Kurdistan in Iraq commemorates Jewish history

Kurdistan in Iraq commemorates Jewish history

Regional gov’t hosts event for second year recalling Iraq’s discrimination against Jews in 1940s.   “Kurdistan has always believed in living peacefully and with respect… Read More ›

The anti-Zionist right

The anti-Zionist right

Op-ed: Instead of having the state’s best interest in mind, Likud Knesset members are insisting on enacting damaging laws in order to gather a few… Read More ›

When a Muslim MK beseeched Israel to fund a Moroccan synagogue

When a Muslim MK beseeched Israel to fund a Moroccan synagogue

In impassioned plea, Zouheir Bahloul says Jewish state has ‘duty’ to support upkeep of holy places abroad, but local Jewish community ‘surprised’ by request, says… Read More ›

Jewish Democrats cry hypocrisy over US general’s Israel remarks

Jewish Democrats cry hypocrisy over US general’s Israel remarks

Gen. James Mattis, contender for Trump’s defense secretary, said settlements could lead to ‘apartheid.’   WASHINGTON – After defending US President Barack Obama’s credentials on… Read More ›

Top US firefighters ‘dropped everything’ to help Israel battle the blazes

Top US firefighters ‘dropped everything’ to help Israel battle the blazes

39 firefighters, mostly not Jewish, answered Israel’s call for help through the Emergency Volunteers Project   TEL AVIV (JTA) — Call them Israel’s American volunteer… Read More ›

Israeli Jews of Iraqi descent meet Abbas in Ramallah

Israeli Jews of Iraqi descent meet Abbas in Ramallah

“The hostility must end, and we want people to live in peace with everyone, whether [Mizrahi] or Ashkenazi,” Abbas remarks, adding, “We will one day… Read More ›

Appointed IDF chief rabbi to High Court: ‘I never said it’s okay to rape’

Appointed IDF chief rabbi to High Court: ‘I never said it’s okay to rape’

In response to halting his appointment to chief rabbi of the IDF, Rabbi Eyal Karim issues an affidavit to the High Court, saying, ‘One must… Read More ›

Jewish Trump voters are ready for their party to get started

Jewish Trump voters are ready for their party to get started

After tough, divisive campaign — and with 75% of their fellow American Jews voting the other way — those who voted for the brash billionaire… Read More ›

Israel against using term ‘Polish death camps’

Israel against using term ‘Polish death camps’

Israeli-Polish governments hold joint meeting in capital.   Israel is opposed to the use of the term “Polish death camps” to describe the Nazi concentration… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Israeli Museum Concert Shows Holocaust’s Lesser Known Legacy

Jerusalem – Israeli Museum Concert Shows Holocaust’s Lesser Known Legacy

  Jerusalem – For the first time in Yad Vashem’s 63-year history, live music echoed through the halls of Israel’s national Holocaust memorial in a… Read More ›

On Poland trip seeking roots, Canadian actor finds wife and new life

On Poland trip seeking roots, Canadian actor finds wife and new life

Michael Rubenfeld makes theater piece from quest to repair difficult relations with his second-generation Holocaust survivor mother   Michael Rubenfeld grew up in Winnipeg, Canada,… Read More ›

Bannon rejects, and supplies ammunition to, those who label him anti-Semitic

Bannon rejects, and supplies ammunition to, those who label him anti-Semitic

In first series of interviews since accepting top White House role, Trump’s chief strategist continues to advance ‘globalist’ conspiracy theories that echo anti-Semitic libels  … Read More ›

Polish ambassador lauds Warsaw’s ties with Jerusalem

Polish ambassador lauds Warsaw’s ties with Jerusalem

Envoy also highlights Jewish renaissance in Poland: “It’s a phenomenon which you will not find anywhere else in Europe.”   Less than a week before… Read More ›

US Jews grapple with election-year eruption of anti-Semitism

US Jews grapple with election-year eruption of anti-Semitism

After Trump’s election, donations to ADL jump 50-fold, while many Jews express anxiety over spike in anti-Jewish vitriol and abuse   NEW YORK (AP) —… Read More ›

Sanders demands Trump drop far-right adviser Bannon

Sanders demands Trump drop far-right adviser Bannon

Vermont senator says appointment of ‘racist individual’ totally ‘unacceptable’; Elizabeth Warren co-authors letter to financial industry calling for denunciation of Trump’s new chief strategist  … Read More ›

Cape Town – One Million Jews In Over 1,000 Cities Take Part In Global Shabbat Project

Cape Town – One Million Jews In Over 1,000 Cities Take Part In Global Shabbat Project

  Cape Town – This year’s global Shabbat Project encompassed 1,150 cities in 94 countries around the world, drawing a record number of participants as… Read More ›

When Israel banned Nazi-inspired ‘Stalag’ porn

When Israel banned Nazi-inspired ‘Stalag’ porn

As the Knesset prepares a bill to ‘filter’ Internet pornography, a peek at the Jewish state’s 1963 show-down with Holocaust-infused comics   To view the… Read More ›

Settler leaders to Lieberman: Government that freezes settlement construction will fall

Settler leaders to Lieberman: Government that freezes settlement construction will fall

Samaria regional council leader Yossi Dagan calls on the defense minister to renounce his assertion that Israel should only build in the major settlement blocs;… Read More ›

Jerusalem Municipality orders demolition of 14 illegal Arab homes

Jerusalem Municipality orders demolition of 14 illegal Arab homes

Order follows High Court’s Amona ruling; Move would displace 40 families.   Following the High Court’s ruling on Amona, the Jerusalem Municipality has approved the immediate… Read More ›