As golden confetti rained down around him Thursday, Israeli chef Raz Shabtai broke down in tears and was embraced by his cheering staff. Moments earlier, a livestreamed Michelin ceremony had announced that his Miami restaurant, Mutra, had become the first kosher restaurant ever awarded a Michelin star, long regarded as the highest honor in the […]
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Israeli and Lebanese military officials are set to meet for talks at the Pentagon on Friday aimed at resolving their decades-long conflict. The new meeting comes as fighting increasingly shakes what’s left of a ceasefire between the two countries, and as the United States and Iran also look to extend their ceasefire to give more […]
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Organizers of Rome’s annual Pride parade have barred Italy’s only Jewish LGBTQIA+ organization from marching with a float at this year’s June 20 parade, although they are still allowed to participate in the march itself. In a statement that came out Monday, Roma Pride said Keshet Italia had failed to endorse its political manifesto, which […]
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BERLIN – For the first time in its 73-year history, Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial museum and archive, is establishing educational centers outside the Jewish state. The institution announced in a statement Thursday that the first centers will be in Germany — one in Munich, and a subsidiary in Leipzig. The Conference of European Rabbis, […]
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The British Museum postponed a lecture titled ‘‘Ancient Israel and Judah” that was scheduled to take place Thursday on its premises. The museum announced later on Thursday that the event “will take place early next month,” adding that booking details would be published on its website “shortly.” The museum stated that, “A respectful and secure […]
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In my consultations with Jewish families assessing whether they may qualify for German citizenship, I often realize that they learned about this opportunity almost by accident. This motivates me to provide more context because, especially since 2021, Germany created broader legal pathways that opened significantly more opportunities for families affected by Nazi persecution to apply […]
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A huge fire broke out Wednesday morning at the Kosher Kingdom supermarket in Golders Green, London’s heavily Orthodox Jewish neighborhood. Firefighters were still working to put out the blaze six hours later. Metropolitan Police said Wednesday afternoon the fire was not being treated as suspicious and was “believed to have been caused by an electrical […]
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The head of the Australian government commission looking into the Bondi Beach terror attack reported Tuesday that witnesses who testified before the commission were facing an onslaught of online harassment and intimidation. Virigina Bell warned that those who engage in such behavior could face prosecution and that the police had been contacted about at least […]
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Dozens of European Jewish leaders, joined by Israeli and American diplomats, decried Antwerp prosecutors who plan to charge two Jewish men with performing illegal circumcisions. In an open letter on Tuesday to European and Belgian officials, 45 communal and religious Jewish leaders accused the Antwerp Public Prosecutor’s Office of “effectively criminalizing the act of circumcision” […]
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Israel criticized Ukraine Monday after President Volodymyr Zelensky gave full state honors to a Ukrainian nationalist leader who was part of a movement that collaborated with the Nazis during World War II. During a reburial ceremony on Sunday, Zelensky described Andriy Melnyk and his wife, Sofia Fedak-Melnyk, as “iconic Ukrainians of the 20th century who […]
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