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Brazilian journalist apologizes for saying his country would need to kill its Jews to match Germany’s wealth

[Photo] Brazilian journalist apologizes for saying his country would need to kill its Jews to match Germany’s wealth

November 18, 2021
The House of Fates Holocaust museum, housed in a former railway station that deported Jews to concentration camps, seen in Budapest, Jan. 21, 2019. It has not opened to the public despite having been finished five years ago. (Ferenc Isza/AFP/Getty Images)

Budapest’s new $30m Holocaust museum sits in limbo as Hungary debates its contents

November 16, 2021
A bicycle path passes on either side of a monument to Holocaust survivors buried in a mass grave in Šiauliai, Lithuania, pictured on Nov. 10, 2021. (Courtesy of Rabbi Kalev Kerlin)

Following outcry, Lithuanian city halts construction of bike path near Holocaust mass grave

November 16, 2021
The cemetery of Ysselsteyn in the Netherlands, where Nazi SS troops are buried alongside Dutch civilians. (Ralf Klinkhammer/Getty Images)

‘No longer kept secret’: New plaques give context to Dutch cemetery where Nazis are buried next to WWII victims

November 16, 2021
‘Death to Jews,’ Polish radicals shout while burning Jewish book at a nationalist rally

[Photo] ‘Death to Jews,’ Polish radicals shout while burning Jewish book at a nationalist rally

November 12, 2021
A man takes a picture at the Shoah Name Wall Memorial in Vienna, Austria on November 9, 2021. (Hherbert Neubauer/APA/AFP via Getty Images)

On Kristallnacht anniversary, Austrian government unveils memorial wall with 64,440 names

November 9, 2021
The owner of Kosher MeatUp says its the only place to get kosher fast food in the Hungarian capital. (Courtesy of Kosher MeatUp)

Budapest’s only kosher fast food joint hungrily awaits the return of Israeli tourists

November 2, 2021
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett arrives at the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Nov. 1, 2021. (Adrian Dennis/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

Naftali Bennett at COP26: Israeli start-ups should focus their energies on climate change

November 2, 2021
French journalist and writer Eric Zemmour arrives at Paris Criminal Court, where he was prosecuted for incitement to racial hatred, Nov. 6, 2015. (Bertrand Guay/AFP/Getty Images)

French chief rabbi calls Jewish prospective presidential candidate an ‘antisemite’

November 1, 2021
French President Emmanuel Macron, third from right, visits the Dreyfus Museum in Médan near Paris, on Oct. 26, 2021. (Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)

The Alfred Dreyfus affair shocked Jews in France. Now there’s a museum devoted to it.

October 26, 2021
A poster advertising an exhibition in Luxembourg on the actions of Aristides de Sousa Mendes. (Courtesy of the government of Luxembourg)

Portuguese diplomat who saved thousands of Jews during the Holocaust receives posthumous honor

October 20, 2021
Gil Ofarim, a German-Israeli singer, said in a video posted to social media that he had been denied a hotel room in Leipzig, Germany, after being told to hide his Jewish star necklace. (Screenshot from Instagram video)

German-Israeli singer insists he ‘didn’t lie’ about discrimination over Jewish symbol at Leipzig hotel

October 19, 2021
The Union Jack flies on the seat of the British parliament in London, June 20, 2014. (Rennett Stowe/Wikimedia Commons)

Kosher food made available at British parliament

October 19, 2021
The main synagogue in Malmö, Sweden. (Wikimedia Commons)

‘Holocaust was a scam’ projected on Swedish synagogue during international antisemitism conference

October 15, 2021
Joel Mergui speaks at a European Jewish Association conference in Brussels, Belgium on Oct. 12, 2021. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

European Union plan to fight antisemitism ‘not serious,’ Jewish community leaders say

October 13, 2021
Hungarian Jews celebrate the opening of a new synagogue in Budapest on Aug. 27, 2021. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

In Europe, antisemitism is highest in countries with the fewest racist attacks on Jews

October 12, 2021
David Gerbi speaks about the Libya in Johannesburg, South Africa on March 15, 2011. (The Times/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

Despairing of physical preservation, a Jewish exile from Libya sets up virtual cemeteries

October 11, 2021
A view of the interior of Londons Bevis Marks Synagogue, August 17, 2015.(Photo by Peter Dazeley/Getty Images)

London lawmakers reject plan for high-rise building next to historic synagogue

October 6, 2021
Andrei Zeltzer stands with a hunting rifle behind the door of his home in Minsk, Belarus on Sept. 29, 2021. (Maria Uspenskaya)

Death of Jewish dissent during home raid by Belarus security forces prompts protests and arrests

October 6, 2021
Gil Ofarim, a German-Israeli singer, said in a video posted to social media that he had been denied a hotel room in Leipzig, Germany, after being told to hide his Jewish star necklace.

Hundreds protest antisemitism after German hotel staff accused of refusing to serve man wearing Star of David pendant

October 6, 2021
The entrance to the former Auschwitz concentration camp. (Natalia Fedosenko/TASS via Getty Images)

Auschwitz museum hit with antisemitic graffiti

October 5, 2021
EU flags seen in Brussels, Sept. 24, 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. The Berlaymont building is the headquarters of the European Commission. (Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)

EU publishes ‘strategic plan’ for countering antisemitism

October 5, 2021
Alleged Nazi-era war criminal, 96, caught in Germany after skipping trial

Alleged Nazi-era war criminal, 96, caught in Germany after skipping trial

September 30, 2021
Alleged Nazi-era war criminal, 96, misses court date, declared fugitive in Germany

Alleged Nazi-era war criminal, 96, misses court date, declared fugitive in Germany

September 30, 2021
Keir Starmer speaks at the annual Labour conference in Brighton, England, Sept. 25, 2021. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

UK Labour Party announces new review process for antisemitism complaints, and end of ‘a dark chapter’ for Jews

September 27, 2021
Marcel Goldhammer, left, Julian Potthast and Robert Eschricht at an Alternative for Germany event in Berlin, June 14, 2021. (Courtesy of Goldhammer)

A Jewish male model is running for Germany’s parliament — on the far-right ticket

September 24, 2021
Late minister Mervyn Taylor and lawmaker Nuala Fennell stand in front of praliament in Dublin, Ireland on Nov. 4, 1982. (Independent News And Media/Getty Images)

Mervyn Taylor, Ireland’s first Jewish cabinet minister, dies at 89

September 24, 2021
The Cathedral of Bergen, Norway. (Wikimedia Commons / Diego Delso)

Norwegian church hosts photo exhibition saying Palestinians are ‘crucified daily’

September 24, 2021
Angela Merkel speaks to press at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Sept. 16, 2021. (Julien Mattia/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

‘A steadfast ally’: Angela Merkel’s departure from politics is a sad moment for many German Jews

September 24, 2021
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses parliament in Kyiv, Ukraine,May 20, 2019. (U.S. Embassy Kyiv, Ukraine/Flickr)

Ukraine passes law banning antisemitism

September 23, 2021
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a ceremony welcoming Ukrainians who were freed by pro-Russian rebels during a prisoner exchange at the Boryspil Airport outside Kyiv, Dec. 29, 2019. (Sergei Chuzavkov/AFP via Getty Images)

Jewish aide to Ukraine’s president survives assassination attempt

September 23, 2021
(Dawid Ziolkowski/EyeEm/Getty Images)

Levi, Thirza and Ezra: Why are non-Jewish Dutch parents giving their children Jewish names?

September 21, 2021
A leather shop that used to be a synagogue in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Cnaan Liphshiz

For Mallorca’s Jews, their first ‘public’ sukkah is a triumph over the Spanish Inquisition

September 20, 2021
Asylum seekers from Afghanistan reach Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates on Sept. 6, 2021. (IsraAID)

Israeli philanthropists help dozens flee Afghanistan for United Arab Emirates

September 20, 2021
A Torah scroll that the Nazis stole from a Czech congregation on display at The Memorial Scrolls Trust in London. (Courtesy of the European Union for Progressive Judaism)

Torah scroll the Nazis stole for their post-Holocaust ‘Jewish museum’ returns to service in Prague

September 20, 2021
Operators prepare the Holocaust Memorial of Names for its opening in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on Sept. 2, 2021. (Ramon van Flymen / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands Out via Getty Images)

Amsterdam’s latest Holocaust memorial features the names of 102,000 victims

September 19, 2021
Men wear Nazi uniforms during a COVID-19 protest in the Netherlands city of Urk, Sept. 10, 2021. (Hart van Nederland)

At Dutch COVID protest, men dressed as Nazis mock arrest of participant wearing yellow star

September 14, 2021
The Jewish cemetery of La Tablada in Buenos Aires, Argentina, pictured in 2013. (Wikimedia Commons/Dario Alpern)

More than 100 headstones smashed at Jewish cemetery in Argentina

September 9, 2021
Police officers and prison guards inspect the scene of a prison escape of six Palestinian prisoners outside the Gilboa Prison in northern Israel, Sept. 6, 2021. (Flash90)

6 Palestinian terrorists use crawl space to escape maximum-security Israeli prison

September 9, 2021
Jews pray for forgiveness, or selichot, at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, a day before the Jewish New Year, Sept. 5, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

World Jewish population rises slightly to 15.2 million

September 9, 2021
Zebulon Simantov reads a prayer book before celebrating Rosh Hashanah in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 18, 2009. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

Afghanistan’s last Jew has left the country

September 9, 2021
Thanos Plervis (The Hellenic Parliament)

Greece appoints health minister who defended his father’s desire to see Jews in Auschwitz

September 2, 2021
Children examine a Torah scroll as it is carried into the Vorosmarty Street Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary, Aug. 27, 2021. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

2 new synagogues open in Budapest with celebrations that bring rival Jewish groups together

September 2, 2021
A participant in the March of the Living at the former Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp in Oswiecim, Poland, April 12, 2018. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto/Getty Images)

Poland is ‘reviewing’ changes to Israel’s annual school trips to former concentration camps

August 16, 2021
Feds seize Jewish artifacts from Brooklyn auction house • Bernie Madoff’s prison wages • Jewish camps beef up security

[Photo] Feds seize Jewish artifacts from Brooklyn auction house • Bernie Madoff’s prison wages • Jewish camps beef up security

July 23, 2021
Jewish man documents encountering antisemitic abuse twice in one hour in London

Jewish man documents encountering antisemitic abuse twice in one hour in London

July 6, 2021
Passengers traveling on the Stresa-Mottarone cable car, July 2009. (Wikimedia Commons)

5 Israelis from one family among 14 dead in cable car crash in Italy

May 24, 2021
Noa Lang, right, and a teammate enjoy a bubble bath in Brugge, Belgium, May 21, 2021. (Brugge FC)

Belgian soccer star defends chanting he’d ‘rather die than be a Jew’

May 24, 2021
A woman and child take cover as a siren sounds a warning of incoming rockets fired from the Gaza strip on a road between Ashkelon and Sderot, southern Israel, on May 19, 2021.(Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Despite calls for de-escalation, Hamas and Israel trade blows amid ceasefire talks

May 20, 2021
A pro-Palestinian slogan and the acronym for a praise for Allah on the wall of the synagogue in Cueta, Spain on May 12, 2021. (FJCE)

Israeli flags burned outside 2 German synagogues; Spanish synagogue vandalized

May 12, 2021
An Israeli firefighter extinguishes a burning car after a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in the city of Ashkelon, May 11, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Rockets from Gaza batter Tel Aviv area, killing 1 and suspending air traffic

May 11, 2021
An Israeli firefighter extinguishes a burning car after a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in the city of Ashkelon, southern Israel, May 11, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Escalating rocket fire between Gaza and Israel leaves 2 Israelis and at least 20 Palestinians dead

May 11, 2021
The Guardian newspaper in central London, Aug. 20, 2013. (Andrew Cowie/AFP/Getty Images)

The Guardian says supporting the Balfour Declaration in 1917 was a mistake

May 10, 2021
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, May 4, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)

Hamas top official, 3 children among 9 reported killed in Israeli retaliatory strike in Gaza

May 10, 2021
Eran Zahavi, left, plays for Israel at a Champions League game against Chelsea FC in London, UK on Sept. 16, 2016. (Wikimedia Commons)

Israeli soccer star’s family threatened at gunpoint and robbed in home break-in

May 10, 2021
Israeli security forces seen as they enter Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem with stun grenades, May 7, 2021. (Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Violence rages in West Bank and Jerusalem, as dozens are injured in police clashes and Palestinian attackers are killed in shootout

May 7, 2021
The seat of the County Council of Cambridgeshire (Courtesy of the council)

British Labour Party suspends 14 members over alleged antisemitism

April 30, 2021
Mourners gather at the funeral of one of those who died in the Lag bOmer stampede at Mount Meron in Israel, April 30, 2021. (Ilia Yefimovich/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Long before stampede, Mount Meron’s history has been a mix of tragedy and euphoria

April 30, 2021
A woman holds up a sign during the day of rallies around the world protesting the French judicial systems handling of the Sarah Halimi case, April 25, 2021. (Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images)

Paris to name a street for Sarah Halimi

April 30, 2021
A woman holds up a sign during the day of rallies around the world protesting the French judicial systems handling of the Sarah Halimi case, April 25, 2021. (Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images)

What to know about the Sarah Halimi case and why it matters

April 29, 2021
Protesters attend the Justice for Sarah Halimi rally in Paris, France, April 25, 2021. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Infuriated by Halimi ruling, French Jews protest state’s handling of anti-Semitism

April 27, 2021
Thousands protest the French high courts ruling on the 2017 murder of Sarah Halimi in Paris on April 25, 2021. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

In protest rallies, thousands of Jews in France demand ‘justice for Sarah Halimi’

April 25, 2021
Sarah Halimi was beaten before she was thrown off her Paris apartment buildings roof in April 2017. (Courtesy of the Halimi family)

Sarah Halimi’s family in France want her killer tried in Israel

April 23, 2021
Friedrich Karl Berger in 1959. (Source: U.S. Department of Justice)

Germany won’t prosecute 95-year-old former concentration camp guard deported from US

April 22, 2021
Students explore Camp Amersfoort in the Netherlands, April 19, 2021. (Mike Bink/National Monument Kamp Amersfoort)

Museum opened at one of Holland’s most infamous Nazi camps

April 22, 2021
The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt transits the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 25, 2020. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Kaylianna Genier)

Hasidic sailor does not have to shave his beard, federal judge rules

April 20, 2021
Beata Szydło, then the prime minister of Poland, speaks to reporters in Warsaw, July 31, 2016. (Kancelaria Premiera)

2 more historians quit Auschwitz museum board over right-wing politician’s appointment

April 16, 2021

Dutch shop fined for omitting the word ‘settlement’ from label of Israeli wine from the West Bank

April 15, 2021

Polish Jewish leader quits Auschwitz museum board over right-wing politician’s appointment

April 14, 2021

French-Jewish gay man threatened in Turkish prison, his family says

April 13, 2021

Isi Leibler, activist for Soviet Jewry who helped expose World Jewish Congress scandal, dies at 86

April 13, 2021

Earliest evidence of kosher diet in UK found in 800-year-old animal bones from Oxford

April 12, 2021
Dutch Philosopher

Dutch national laureate philosopher calls Diaspora a ‘blessing’ because it prevented Jews from having power

April 9, 2021

Growing up in Anne Frank’s shadow, my kids have known about the Holocaust since before they could speak

April 8, 2021

Collapsible synagogue opens on former killing ground of Babyn Yar in Ukraine

April 8, 2021

‘Not too late to show gratitude’: First housing project for elderly rescuers who saved Jews in the Holocaust launches in Belarus

April 7, 2021

Anti-Semitic assaults worldwide dropped 19% in 2020 due to pandemic, report says

April 7, 2021
Franz Huber

Top Nazi official who spied for US was allowed to avoid trial until his death in 1975

April 7, 2021

This 90-year-old Holocaust survivor is a ‘senator for life’ in her native Italy. She also receives constant anti-Semitic threats.

April 6, 2021

Paris-area Jews catch and overpower suspected stabber fleeing the scene

April 6, 2021

Red paint, baby dolls and anti-Semitic literature found outside Jewish cemetery in Denmark

April 5, 2021

Dutch matzah factory gives away Passover product to 35,000 schoolkids

April 2, 2021
Blogger Alison Chabloz, who is accused of posting anti-semitic songs on her site, arrives at Westminster Magistrates Court in London on January 10, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Tolga AKMEN (Photo credit should read TOLGA AKMEN/AFP/Getty Images)

British court jails Holocaust denier for inciting hatred against Jews

April 1, 2021

Local politician in Poland makes anti-Semitic joke at council meeting

April 1, 2021

Church of England sorry for prayer booklet that resembles Passover Haggadah

April 1, 2021

UK Muslim-Jewish cooking project to benefit from Meghan Markle $13,700 donation

April 1, 2021

Baby dolls splashed with red paint strung outside Swedish synagogue in suspected Passover hate crime

March 31, 2021

Turkish police say they seized 2,000-year-old Torah scroll

March 31, 2021

Polish woman who doted over Jewish boy she rescued from the Holocaust dies at 101

March 30, 2021

Romanian man arrested for allegedly threatening to throw Jewish actress ‘into a gas chamber’

March 30, 2021
Workers knead dough at the Tiferet Hamatzot factory in Dnepro, Ukraine, Dec. 8, 2014. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Jews in former Soviet Union eat pounds of matzah per person — the most in the world — every year. Here’s why.

March 26, 2021

Israeli cargo ship hit by missile near Yemen in suspected Iranian attack

March 26, 2021

UK professor may have committed hate crime when he called Jewish students ‘pawns’ of Israel, police say

March 25, 2021

Germany enacts law favoring naturalization for descendants of ex-citizens who fled Nazis

March 25, 2021

European intellectuals launch magazine on European Jewry’s population ‘crisis’

March 23, 2021
Boris Spiegel speaks during a meeting of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation in Yaroslavl, Russia on Nov. 28, 2011. (Public Chamber of the Yaroslavl Region)

Russian-Jewish billionaire and communal funder arrested for alleged bribes

March 23, 2021
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