International
First person: Corbyn’s Labour is an existential threat to British Jewry
JTAJun 06, 2019
By Gideon Falter On a recent speaking tour in North America, I was asked repeatedly about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party and Jeremy Corbyn. Corbyn’s Labour has...
Sobibor’s last survivor dies
JTAJun 06, 2019
JERUSALEM — The last living survivor of the Nazi death camp Sobibor has died. Semion Rosenfeld died on Monday, June 3, at a hospital in central Israel at the age of...
Greece elects its first Jewish mayor
JTAJun 06, 2019
ATHENS — A city in northwestern Greece elected the country’s first Jewish mayor. Moses Elisaf was elected mayor of Ioannina on Sunday, June 2, in the second round...
Son of Holocaust hero Chiune Sugihara wants to set record straight on his father
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAMay 30, 2019
MINSK — After decades of relative obscurity, the tale of the Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara has become one of the best-known Holocaust rescue stories, rivaling...
Polish restitution debate fans more anti-Semitism
JTAMay 30, 2019
By Katarzyna Markusz WARSAW — Jewish leaders are warning about anti-Semitic speech here amid a debate over the fate of property seized from or abandoned by Jews during...
How Venezuelan Jews are hanging on amid the crisis
Ben Sales, JTAMay 16, 2019
CARACAS — The political and economic crisis in Venezuela has further depleted Venezuela’s Jewish community. From a height of 25,000 members in the 1990s, it’s down...
Viennese students honor Jewish pupils expelled during the Nazi era
JTAMay 09, 2019
By Toby Axelrod VIENNA — On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, a public high school in the Austrian capital corrected its own historical record. Along with a...
No joke: Jewish comedian is president of Ukraine
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAApr 25, 2019
KIEV— It’s official. Ukraine is the only country in the world besides Israel whose president and prime minister are both Jewish. Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky’s...
Two Jewish teens among Sri Lanka victims
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAApr 25, 2019
Two Jewish teenage siblings from London were among the 359 people murdered in terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka, the British media reported. Amelie and Daniel Linsey, 15...
Trump picks Kelly Craft for US ambassador to UN
JNSApr 25, 2019
With US President Donald Trump nominating Acting US Ambassador to the United Nations Jonathan Cohen to be US ambassador to Egypt, the nomination of Kelly Craft as US...
