Austrian Jewish Leader: Kosher Meat Restrictions Are Reminiscent of Nazi-Era
The head of Vienna’s Jewish community has compared a proposal that would require Jews to register with the government in order to purchase kosher meat to Nazi-era legislation.
Oskar Deutsch, the...
Suspect in Murder of French Woman Found Unfit to Stand Trial
Kobili Traore, the Malian immigrant who allegedly killed Jewish physician Sarah Halimi in her home in Paris in 2017, is unfit to stand trial following a court-ordered evaluation, French media...
Antisemitic Gang Convicted of Brutal Robbery, Rape of French Jewish Couple
Three members of an antisemitic gang who robbed a young Jewish couple in Paris in 2014, and raped their female victim during the ordeal, have been convicted by a French...
New Monument Unveiled at Terezin
The new monument at the site of the Terezin concentration camp in the Czech Republic. Photo: European Jewish Congress Twitter account.
A new monument — commemorating the victims of the Nazi...
Petition Urging UK Ban of Hezbollah Gains Steam
Ahead of next Sunday’s “Al-Quds Day” march in London — at which hundreds of Hezbollah supporters are expected to wave the organization’s flag — more than 10,000 people have...
Communal Leader Warns: Corbyn May ‘Drive Jews Out of UK’
The outgoing president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews told a prominent national newspaper on Thursday that Jeremy Corbyn — the far-left leader of the opposition Labour...
Oxford Community Leaders Condemn Antisemitism, Chabad Attacks
The Chabad of Oxford on Cowley Rd, Oxford, England. Photo: Google Maps.
A Jewish student center serving the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom was subject to two attacks...
Abbas: Massacres of European Jews Due to Role As Usurers
PA President Mahmoud Abbas said that the massacres to which European Jews were subjected, from the 11th century until the Holocaust, were not because they were Jews, but because...
OU Hails Move by Iceland to Drop Proposed Circumcision Ban
A circumcision ceremony. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
The Orthodox Union has praised an Icelandic parliamentary committee for its recommendation this week that a proposed bill that would ban male circumcision be...
British Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn Rises to Defense of ‘Anti-Zionism’
A young protester holds a placard at a demonstration, organized by the British Board of Jewish Deputies for those who oppose antisemitism, in Parliament Square in London, March 26,...
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