BUENOS AIRES — As Argentina marks the 50th anniversary of the 1976 military coup, a lesser-known aspect of the dictatorship is gaining attention: the disproportionate number of Jews among the disappeared. Estimates suggest that as many as 1,900 Jews were abducted, tortured and murdered by the military junta during the six-year Dirty War, when many […]
Continue Reading
Two men were arrested in London on Wednesday in connection with an arson attack days earlier that destroyed four ambulances owned by Hatzola, a Jewish volunteer emergency service. A 47-year-old man was arrested in northwest London and a 45-year-old man in central London, according to the Metropolitan Police. Both are suspected of arson with intent […]
Continue Reading
Two minors have been arrested in connection with a car burning in the Jewish quarter of Antwerp in what is being treated as an antisemitic attack, Belgian prosecutors say. The two suspects were arrested shortly before midnight Monday, just minutes after setting the vehicle on fire. Prosecutors also say the investigation includes a video circulating […]
Continue Reading
Living in Amsterdam in the years after World War II, Karin Prien’s parents’ bookshelves were lined with the works of Jewish authors like Philip Roth, Saul Bellow and Isaac Bashevis Singer. When she was a young child and her family moved from the vibrant and multicultural city of Amsterdam to Neuwied, a small town in […]
Continue Reading
For nearly two decades, the families of victims of Iranian-sponsored terrorism have watched a 36-story Manhattan skyscraper generate millions in rental income for the Islamic Republic while their court judgments against Iran went unsatisfied. On Monday, amid the Israeli-American war against Iran, that wait finally produced a result: a $318 million settlement that will direct […]
Continue Reading
King Charles has been named the first-ever patron of a British Jewish security nonprofit, a move announced in the wake of an arson attack that targeted four ambulances owned by a Jewish volunteer emergency service in north London. The Community Security Trust, Britain’s main antisemitism watchdog, announced that King Charles had accepted the role — […]
Continue Reading
BERLIN — He had wild hair and wore jeans. He was American — and Jewish. He had a camera. That was enough to trigger surveillance by the notorious secret police of communist Romania, the Securitate. Now, 41 years after photojournalist Edward Serotta boldly stepped behind the Iron Curtain, we can see just how obsessed the Romanians […]
Continue Reading
Welcoming the stranger — and opening one’s home to guests at the seder — is a defining theme of Passover, the eight-day spring holiday known as the Festival of Freedom. That idea echoes through several of this year’s new Passover children’s books, many of which also highlight the prophetess Miriam and feature a lively cast […]
Continue Reading
Roald Dahl is a terrible messenger for a serious conversation about Jews and Israel. Which is part of what makes “Giant,” the new Broadway play about the beloved children’s author’s 1983 antisemitic outbursts, so unsettling. The play asks urgent, complicated questions about Israel, Jewish solidarity and Diaspora responsibility — but it puts them in the […]
Continue Reading
President Donald Trump announced on Monday that the United States had been negotiating an end to the war in Iran for the past two days, marking the first signal from the president of high-level talks with Tehran since the war began with joint U.S.-Israeli strikes last month. The talks had been “very good and productive,” […]
Continue Reading
