Posts Tagged: European Jews
Congress Holds Hearing on Islamic Extremism’s Threat to European Jews
JNS.org - US Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) chaired a Congressional hearing on Tuesday that explored the threat Islamic extremism poses to European Jewish communities. The hearing...
Flag From Iconic ‘Exodus’ Ship That Transported Holocaust Survivors Donated to US Museum
The flag of an iconic ship that tried to take Jewish Holocaust survivors to what would later become Israel is destined for a museum in...
Putin Calls on European Jews Facing Antisemitism to Come to Russia
JNS.org - Russian President Vladimir Putin called on European Jews facing rising antisemitism to return to Russia. “They can come to us,” Putin told a delegation from...
In Europe, the Jews Are the Canaries in the Coal Mine
In a piece by Italian journalist Giulio Meotti for Israel National News, he writes that the last Jews of Malmo, Sweden, are departing for more friendly shores: ......
British Jews Under Pressure
Reviewing the status of Anglo-Jewry can lead to diametrically opposing conclusions. Residing in a northwest London Jewish suburb, one can easily be deluded that life...
The Global Jihadist Onslaught and European Jews
That a massacre of at least 129 civilians in Paris, in the heart of Europe, could be engineered by half a dozen militarily trained killers...
Survey Says Most Jews Feel Safe in Home Countries
The world's Jews feel secure in their countries, including in Europe: In a survey conducted among Jewish community leaders in different places around the world,...
Immigration, Antisemitism and the Future of European Democracy
At the beginning of the emotional debate sparked by the huge influx of refugees into Europe, leaders of the small vulnerable Jewish communities in Europe...
Celebrating Jewish Life — and Unity — in Paris
On January 7 and 9, 2016, we will mark the one-year anniversaries of two deadly attacks that were inspired by radical Islamic ideologies and blatant antisemitism....
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...
Dutch Holocaust Survivors Attacked as 70 Percent of Europe Jews Hide Faith
JNS.org - In the latest case of antisemitic violence in Europe, two elderly Holocaust survivors in the Netherlands were brutally beaten and robbed. The assailants, reportedly...
Survey Finds 85% of European Jews Fear Bringing Children to Rosh Hashanah Services
A massive majority of Jews in Europe are fearful of publicly identifying as Jewish, leading to decreased participation in ceremonies and prayer services, a new...
When Invoking WWII is Appropriate
There is good reason to refrain from bandying about the word "Holocaust" with abandon. The defining atrocity of the 20th century has to be given...
Study Says European Antisemitism Not as High as it Seems, But is That True?
JNS.org - A recently released study by the Pew Research Center contradicts previous studies indicating a significant rise in antisemitism in Europe, and shows that the rise in antisemitic...
