(JTA) — The number of anti-Semitic attacks recorded in France during the first quarter of 2015 increased by 84 percent over the corresponding period last year, a watchdog group said. The SPCJ security service of France’s Jewish communities released...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Canadian-Israeli Jewish woman who joined Kurdish forces in their fight against the Islamic State has returned to Israel. Gillian Rosenberg has been out of contact for most of the last 8 months. She began training with the Kurds...

JEDWABNE, Poland (JTA) — The 1941 pogrom in Jedwabne was commemorated by representatives of the Jewish community and local residents, at the site of the atrocity in Poland. “I’m lucky to meet in Poland very good people, the righteous and those who...

(JTA) – A Paris court jailed a number of Islamists for planning jihadist attacks on French Jews and other targets. The Correctional Tribunal of Paris on Friday sentenced sentenced 39-year-old Mohamed Amchalane, the group’s leader, to nine years in...

(JTA) — A Jewish boy from Paris was beaten and robbed outside his school by six young men in an anti-Semitic attack, a local watchdog said. The incident occurred on July 7 in Paris’ 19th arrondissement, near the Gare du Nord train station, according...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Tel Aviv man was sentenced to 14 months in jail for hacking American pop star Madonna’s computer and selling unreleased songs. Adi Lederman, 38, who appeared in 2012 on Israel’s version of “American Idol,” admitted to computer...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — South Korean media have repeated anti-Semitic canards about Jews and money in the face of a corporate merger vote. “Jews are known to wield enormous power on Wall Street and in global financial circles,” according to a column on...

(JTA) — An animal rights group is suing several rabbis, synagogues and New York City to halt a Yom Kippur ritual in which chickens are slaughtered. The Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporas filed a lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court against the kapparot...

(JTA) — Iran nuclear talks have again been extended in order to allow negotiators time to reach a final deal. The talks will be extended until July 10,  Marie Harf, a State Department strategic expert attending the talks in Vienna, announced Tuesday....

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel coordinated the transfer of a pair of lion cubs from Gaza to a wildlife sanctuary in Jordan. The cubs, Max and Mona, were transferred to Israel from Gaza on Sunday through the Erez crossing and then taken to a sanctuary near...

AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Dutch lawmakers called on the government to spare six Holocaust survivors whose assistance would be slashed by cutbacks. The predicament of the six Jewish survivors from The Hague was reported last week by the Algemeen Dagblad daily....

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops overwhelmingly rejected a motion to divest from company doing business with Israel in the West Bank. The body, meeting at the church’s General Convention, this year taking place in Salt...