A French appeals court ruled on Wednesday that a nanny from Algeria who was convicted of poisoning the Jewish family she worked for was not motivated by antisemitism. The decision by the Versailles Court of Appeal comes months after the nanny, identified as Leïla Y., 42, was sentenced to two and a half years in […]
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WARSAW, Poland — In the Polish town of Jedwabne, where historians agree that townspeople killed most of their Jewish neighbors during World War II, a brand-new “information center” denies the crime. The information center is housed in two shipping containers that stand taller than anything else at the memorial site. On the side of one […]
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Meghan Markle appeared to fight back tears as she listened to Jessica Chapnik Kahn describe shielding her young daughter as gunmen fired on the Hanukkah celebration they were attending in Sydney. Chapnik Kahn told Markle about her experience during the shooting as Markle and her husband, Prince Harry, visited Bondi Beach as part of the […]
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Israeli Ambassador to France Joshua Zarka held a meeting on Wednesday with far-right French leader Marine Le Pen, marking the latest instance in a recent trend of Israeli outreach to Europe’s nationalist right. The meeting, which was not publicly announced by either leader, was confirmed by the Israeli embassy to the French outlet Le Parisien. […]
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Until this week, Giorgia Meloni, the Italian prime minister, was allies with Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu and adversaries with Elly Schlein, Italy’s opposition leader. Now, Meloni is at odds with Trump and Netanyahu, her fellow conservatives in the United States and Israel, and getting a boost from Schlein, a liberal whose father is an […]
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A far-right Polish lawmaker sparked outrage on Tuesday when, while speaking in parliament, he displayed a modified Israeli flag that replaced the Star of David with a blue swastika and called Israel “the new Third Reich.” “Israel is committing genocide before our eyes with particular cruelty,” said Konrad Berkowicz, vice chairman of Poland’s far-right New […]
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Immanuel College, a top-ranked Jewish private day school in the outskirts of London, announced on Tuesday that it will close its doors at the end of this year amid financial pressures and declining enrollment. “This is an incredibly difficult and painful moment,” Daniel Levy, the chair of governors for the school, said in a statement. […]
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Aviva Kempner makes films about what she calls “underknown Jewish heroes.” More than a decade ago, she attended a talk on Martha’s Vineyard by civil rights activist Julian Bond, who spoke about Julius Rosenwald, the Jewish businessman and head of retailing giant Sears, Roebuck. Bond described how Rosenwald worked with Booker T. Washington to help […]
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White supremacist networks, terror group supporters and Nazi merchandise vendors have gone largely unchecked on Instagram amid weakened content moderation by its parent company Meta, according to a new analysis by the Anti-Defamation League. Instagram failed to remove 93% of hateful and extremist content reported by the ADL’s researchers, a figure the watchdog said demonstrated […]
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A new U.S. law removing a deadline for laying claim to art looted during the Holocaust has gone into effect after President Donald Trump signed it on Monday. The 2025 Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act, or HEAR Act, expands on a 2016 law, signed by President Barack Obama, that permits victims and descendants of victims […]
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