Posts Tagged: European Jewry
Terrorist Attacks Stark Reminder for European Jewry, Loud Alarm for General Society
JNS.org - As Austrians were making the most of their last night in restaurants, cafes and bars on Nov. 2 before the onset of a...
Survey: Despite Uptick In Antisemitism, European Jews Plan to Stay Put for Now
JNS.org - Despite increasing antisemitism, European Jews, who feel safer in the eastern than western part of the continent, have no plans to emigrate anytime soon,...
We Must Believe In and Build a European Jewish Future
I recently took a trip to Europe. After passing through the painful experiences of Polish Jewish history -- endless ghettos, death camps and mass graves -- we arrived in...
Lost And Not Found: The Unknown Fate of Jews’ Everyday Possessions Looted by the Nazis
JNS.org - At an antiques flea market in Berlin, one stand has two Hanukkah menorahs for sale. The husky, white-haired merchant wearing a Soviet hammer-and-sickle pin said one of...
Washington Post, Huffington Post, New York Times All Whitewash the Genocidal Mufti (VIDEO)
It is sort of amazing. Twenty-four hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu withdrew his remarks about the Mufti of Jerusalem and clarified them with specific citations...
Netanyahu Says Palestinan Mufti Convinced Hitler to Massacre Europe’s Jews
Social media was abuzz on Wednesday following claims made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Adolf Hitler initially had no intention of massacring European Jewry. In...
European Antisemitism Driving Jews Away From Jewish Life, Says Leading Rabbi (INTERVIEW)
The recent string of attacks against Jews in Europe has driven many Jews away from an active Jewish life, said the president of one of...
Denmark Jewish Leader: Way We Want to Live Our Lives Not Possible
"The way we want to live our lives is no longer possible," said the vice president of Denmark's Jewish community at an annual conference of...
Record 1.5 Million Visitors to Auschwitz in 2014, 70 Percent Under 18 (VIDEO)
The highest number of visitors ever recorded bore witness to the European Holocaust at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland, the Museum and Memorial Center...
Liberating Theater J From Diva Ari Roth
JNS.org - Before the campaign to portray Ari Roth as a martyr to freedom of artistic expression gains traction, let's review: Roth was recently fired...
16% of French Believe in ‘Zionist Conspiracy on Global Scale’: Poll
No less than 16 percent of France's residents think that there is a "Zionist conspiracy on a global scale," according to results of a...
Poland Inaugurates Museum Dedicated to History of Polish Jewry
JNS.org - Poland on Tuesday officially inaugurated the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, which documents the 1,000-year history of Jewish life...
New York Times Highlights Rise in European Anti-Semitism
New York Times - From the immigrant enclaves of the Parisian suburbs to the drizzly bureaucratic city of Brussels to the industrial heartland of Germany,...
Betrayal: FDR and the Jews
Like everyone else I knew in the Forest Hills of my boyhood, my parents were the American-born children of immigrants from Eastern Europe. But my...
