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![]() Cnaan LiphshizThe Times of Israel |
JTA — Benjamin de Rothschild, a French-Jewish banker who has donated generously to Israel, including $22 million for the country’s effort to beat...
JTA — At the opening of his trial in Nuremberg, Julius Streicher made several uncharacteristically friendly statements about Jews — a people he...
JTA — An unidentified individual scrawled a swastika and the Nazi SS symbol on a wall of a Jewish cemetery in the city of Oświęcim, Poland, near...
JTA — A teaching assistant at Johns Hopkins University defended what she called her fair treatment of students after she debated online the merits...
JTA — A popular British children’s author omitted “The Merchant of Venice” from his adaptation of William Shakespeare plays for young...
JTA — Hundreds of people marched bearing torches in the capital city of Ukraine Friday in an annual tribute to a leader who collaborated with Nazi...
JTA — The French government has allocated about $10 million to a Palestinian organization that is a leading promoter of the boycott Israel movement....
JTA — As one of the youngest Holocaust survivors, Eva Clarke has spent years telling the story of how her mother, weighing just 68 pounds, gave...
JTA — A popular rapper in Poland has invoked the Holocaust to describe how COVID-19 has affected his country, drawing criticism from a survivor. ...
JTA — In an interview for the Limmud Jewish learning festival in the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, the leader of the Labour Party, spoke about...
JTA — Vandals struck a synagogue gate in Bulgaria and a monument to the victims of the shooting attack last year near a synagogue in Halle,...
JTA — An Israeli court has ordered Ukrainian Airlines to pay damages to passengers who said that employees made anti-Semitic jokes at their expense....
JTA — As the head of Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, Piotr Cywiński and his staff rarely intervene in matters that don’t...
JTA — French police have arrested two adults and two minors suspected of an anti-Semitic hate crime in which they allegedly verbally assaulted a...
JTA — In an unusual intervention, British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said that he is “compelled to speak out” on the plight of China’s Uighur...
JTA — A Polish diplomat serving in Turkey during World War II helped save hundreds of Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis by issuing them false...
JTA — A petition by several Orthodox Jews from Antwerp has prompted Belgium’s highest court to end the government’s ban on gatherings at houses...
JTA — As a child growing up in Tunisia, Peggy Cidor and her sister would count the days to Hanukkah. But the traditional lighting of the menorah...
JTA — Police in Belgium are looking for four men who used a train’s public address system to threaten to blow up the vehicle near Antwerp unless...
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — There’s a huge pipe organ where the Torah ark should be, but otherwise this city’s Royal Concert Hall looks, sounds and feels...
JTA — A man who told police in France last year that he had stabbed his neighbor because he wanted “to kill a Jew” has been found unfit to stand...
JTA — A synagogue in Tomsk, a Siberian city in Russia, has unveiled a giant Hanukkah menorah made of ice. The 3-meter (10-foot) menorah was erected...
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — In the Netherlands, proving that the Nazis stole artwork from your family isn’t always enough to claim it back. Departing from...
JTA — A Jewish journalism professor claims he was fired from a Ukrainian university for his opposition to a statue honoring a militia leader whose...
JTA — A Jewish group based in London has launched Europe’s first Jewish streaming service, with the goal of “connecting all sorts of Jews to...
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — It was meant as an ode to one of the most courageous yet little-known rescue efforts of Jews during the Holocaust. But a week...
JTA — An unidentified man spray-painted the words “Jesus Wins” in black on the walls of a synagogue in Greece and a nearby Holocaust monument. ...
JTA — The constant stream of breaking news about American politics and the coronavirus pandemic has hidden a sobering fact: Six prominent Holocaust...
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — After Gal Graber and Tal Goldman had a disappointing experience with store-bought jachnun, the two Israelis living in Amsterdam...
AMSTERDAM (JTA) – For the past two decades, a conflict has been slowly escalating in the Netherlands over the wintertime custom of wearing blackface...
JTA — A member of the United Arab Emirates’ royal family has formally announced his interest in buying half of the Israeli soccer team Beitar...
JTA — An unidentified woman stole the kippah of a rabbi whom she threatened with a knife on a street in the Austrian capital of Vienna, police said....
JTA — Anti-Semitic incidents accounted for 22 percent of hate crimes recorded last year in the pan-European region, though Jews comprise less than...
JTA — Right-wing extremists in Germany are planning to demonstrate for “freedom for Palestine” and against “Zionism” in front of a...
PARIS, France — France is expected to loosen its coronavirus restrictions on Tuesday as the boss of a major airline said proof of vaccination will...
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands (JTA) — The leader of the Dutch right-wing Forum for Democracy party resigned Monday following reports that members of...
JTA — Actor Tom Hanks and singer Billy Porter have agreed to help lead a fundraising campaign to help turn Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue...
JTA — The world’s first lab-grown meat restaurant has opened near Tel Aviv, the Los Angeles-based VegNews reported. The eatery, whose name is...
JTA — National Independence Day in Poland has served in recent years as a backdrop for anti-Semitic, xenophobic and violent incidents at nationalist...
JTA — Amid a recent spate of incidents against Jewish targets in Germany, swastikas were etched into headstones at a cemetery. The vandalism...
JTA — A new synagogue is planned to open in Babyn Yar, the park in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv commemorating a ravine where the Nazis and their...
JTA — Dozens of people from 49 countries delivered filmed greetings to a Polish rescuer of Jews on his 101st birthday. Jozef Walaszczyk watched the...
JTA — CNN’s Christiane Amanpour invoked the anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogroms in comparing US President Donald Trump’s dishonesty to the...
JTA — A Greek newspaper whose publisher was convicted recently of anti-Semitic defamation warned its readers that Pfizer’s Jewish CEO will...
JTA — Lawmakers in Finland have removed language against nonmedical circumcision of boys from a bill on female genital mutilation following a push...
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (JTA) — European synagogues kept their lights on Monday night as part of a campaign that commemorates the 82nd anniversary of...
JTA — In the high-tech industry, Russian-speaking Jews have had a vastly outsized footprint. People like Sergey Brin, Jan Koum and Max Levchin —...
JTA — The Polish government has scrapped a bill that would have banned the production of kosher and halal meat, but vowed to introduce a new one. ...