Posts Tagged: European Jews
Explosion Hits Jewish Center in Sweden, No Reported Injuries
A bomb exploded at a Jewish community center in Malmo, Sweden early Sept. 28, causing damage but no injuries. The door leading into the...
Amid Anti-Semitism, Remembering France’s Granting of Full Rights to Jews
Sept. 27 marked the 221st anniversary of French Jews being granted equality under the law by the French National Assembly. This political decision...
Jewish, Muslim Leaders Respond to Attacks on Religious Liberties
Amid attempts to ban circumcision in Germany and ritual slaughter in the Netherlands, Jewish and Muslim leaders are uniting to fight what they...
German Circumcision Ban Shows Jew-Hatred Back in Fashion
When a court in Cologne, Germany ruled in June that circumcision should henceforth be considered illegal, those who are tasked with raising the alarm about...
Swedes Protest Rising Anti-Semitism
Hundreds of Swedish Jews and non-Jews brought together by the Swedish Committee Against Anti-Semitism marched on the southern city of Malmo on August 18th, to...
Ezra Golombok – Glasgow’s Idealist Jew
Life is enriched by the range and variety of the people we encounter. Increasingly nowadays we confine ourselves to mental ghettos. Even within...
Peruvian Neo-Nazi Group Leader Seeks Jewish Expulsion
Martin Quispe Mayta, the 38-year-old founder of the Andean National Socialism Movement, is posing a threat to Peru's Jewish community as he is attempting to...
Israeli Soccer Stars Benayoun and Sahar Visit Hungarian Synagogue (PHOTO)
Two of Israel's most talented soccer stars, Ben Sahar and Yossi Benayoun, visited a synagogue in Budapest recently. The two soccer phenoms, both of whom...
Crying Over Dead Jews: Lithuania’s Jewless Jewish Institutions
Lithuania's Jewish community isn't immune from the broader issues facing Jewish existence in Eastern Europe and the same problems of Jewish identity that...
Munich Rabbi: Some Jewish Families May Heed German Circumcision Ban
European Rabbis met in Germany on Thursday to proclaim their opposition to a German court's ruling which outlaws circumcision. The ban has brought religious leaders...
Jewish At-Risk Teens Repair Polish Cemeteries
Located in what is currently western Ukraine, south-eastern Poland, and north-eastern Romania - the provinces that were once known as Galicia and Bukovina and were...
Member of Hungarian Anti-Semitic Party Learns of His Jewish Roots
Csanad Szegedi, a leader of Hungary's notoriously anti-Semitic party Jobbik, found out that he has Jewish roots, reports AFP. "I learnt not long ago that I...
Antisemitism & Its Antidotes, Part V
How do you define a problem with antisemitism that seems to reside in the hazy domain of intellectual subtlety, inferred meaning and suppositions...
How America First Learned of the Holocaust
Seventy years ago this month America learned, for the first time, about the systematic mass murder of Europe's Jews—but Allied officials and some...
