International
Anti-Semitic slurs on New Zealand billboards
JTAAug 21, 2014
SYDNEY Campaign billboards in New Zealand were defaced with anti-Semitic slurs about Prime Minister John Key, the son of a Jewish refugee from Europe. Ahead of the...
Germany: Jews quit interfaith council
JTAAug 14, 2014
BERLIN The Jewish community of Frankfurt dropped out of the German citys interfaith Council of Religions, saying it failed to condemn anti-Israel statements by...
Dutch chief rabbi says he’d leave if not for job
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAAug 07, 2014
AMERSFOORT, The Netherlands After the latest attack on his home, Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs sat down on his couch, picked up the phone and made three calls. A chief rabbi...
Cochin synagogue in India to receive legal protection
JTAAug 07, 2014
NEW DELHI Officials sought protection for a historic synagogue in the city of Cochin in western India and a nearby Jewish cemetery following the synagogues partial...
Hundreds of Jews flee East Ukraine
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAJul 25, 2014
DNEPROPETROVSK, Ukraine Anatoly Lazaurenkos face betrays no emotion as he watches footage of an old woman he used to know lying in the rubble of what once was his...
Nuclear Iran far worse than ISIS
JTAJul 18, 2014
THE bloody sectarian warfare in Iraq and Syria and the swift takeover of wide swaths of territory by the Sunni fundamentalist ISIS now calling itself a caliphate...
Synagogue firebombed near Paris
JTAJul 18, 2014
PARIS A firebomb was hurled at a synagogue near Paris, part of a string of anti-Semitic incidents in Western Europe coinciding with Israels assault on Hamas in...
Antwerp: ‘Slaughter Jews’ at anti-Israel protest
JTAJul 18, 2014
ANTWERP Dozens of men at an anti-Israel demonstration in Antwerp shouted slogans about slaughtering Jews. Approximately 500 people attended the July 12 protest in the...
Norway passes legislation regulating ritual circumcision
JTAJul 10, 2014
OSLO The leader of Norways Jewish community praised his countrys parliament for passing an act regulating ritual circumcision for boys. The act changes the...
Pope, Peres and Abbas in the Vatican
JTAJun 12, 2014
JERUSALEM PA President Mahmoud Abbas called for freedom in our sovereign and independent state during a prayer for peace with Israeli President Shimon Peres and...