14 arrested during rival protests outside Israeli real estate event held at London synagogue

LONDON — Fourteen people were arrested following clashes between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian groups on Sunday outside an event promoting Israeli real estate being held at a London synagogue. Seven of those arrested came from pro-Israel groups, while six were affiliated with pro-Palestinian groups, the Metropolitan Police told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Monday. “The Great […]

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Jane Yolen, children’s book author whose ‘The Devil’s Arithmetic’ became a Holocaust classic, dies at 87

Jane Yolen was already an award-winning author and illustrator of more than 100 titles for young readers when her editor suggested she write a Jewish children’s book. At first, she resisted the idea. Sure, she was Jewish. But she didn’t grow up in a religiously observant family, and she insisted she didn’t know enough about […]

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13,000 Jews were driven out of Poland in 1968. Now, some are returning to tell their story.

In March 1968, Rachelle Halpern walked into her university in Szczecin, Poland, and found a group of her classmates gathered around a newspaper. She asked what they were reading about. The answer came: “Zionists.” Halpern didn’t understand. Who were the Zionists? One classmate said, “The Jews.” “But I’m a Jew,” said Halpern. Her classmates looked […]

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UK Jewish leaders demand answers after Muslim police group paper calls Zionism a form of hatred

British Jewish groups say they are alarmed about revelations that a fraternal society for Muslim police officers published a policy paper that described Zionism as a form of anti-Muslim hatred and called the Israeli army a “Zionist terrorist group.” The Board of Deputies of British Jews called the paper posted by the National Association of […]

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Her father added the N-word to ‘Blazing Saddles.’ Now Richard Pryor’s Jewish daughter is interrogating its role in her life.

When Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor was a young girl, her Jewish mother, during an argument, once called her the N-word. “She never used the word with me again,” Pryor, whose father is Black, recalled to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency of her mother, who belonged to the Jewish socialist group Workman’s Circle. “But she never apologized.” The […]

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Spain reports 86% rise in antisemitic incidents, as interior minister takes aim at ‘xenophobia’

Antisemitic offenses in Spain rose 86% last year amid the country’s highest total hate incidents on record, according to a report from the Spanish government. Jews were targeted in 69 hate crimes and incidents in 2025, up from 37 in 2024, according to a report released last week by Spain’s Interior Ministry. Islamophobic attacks also […]

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