Author: Jesse Orine

Vandals covered three Jewish sites in Paris with green paint late Friday night, in an act that has unsettled French Jews. The paint covered walls of the Agoudas Hakehilos synagogue and the Tournelles synagogue as well as the Shoah Memorial for French victims of the Holocaust. The three sites are located within several blocks of […]

(JR) — Poland is heading to the polls in a neck-and-neck presidential election that will shape the country’s future on the world stage — and its approach to history. On Sunday, voters are casting their ballots in the decisive runoff between Rafał Trzaskowski, the liberal-centrist mayor of Warsaw, and Karol Nawrocki, a right-wing historian who […]

(JR) — Poland is heading to the polls in a neck-and-neck presidential election that will shape the country’s future on the world stage — and its approach to history. On Sunday, voters are casting their ballots in the decisive runoff between Rafał Trzaskowski, the liberal-centrist mayor of Warsaw, and Karol Nawrocki, a right-wing historian who […]

A French parliamentary committee unanimously approved a bill this week to posthumously promote Alfred Dreyfus, more than 130 years after he was framed for treason in one of the defining antisemitic incidents of the 19th century. In what became known as the Dreyfus affair, Dreyfus, a Jewish French army captain, was falsely accused of espionage […]

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — On Saturdays, the Jewish day of rest, there is barely a quorum of 10 for prayers at the old synagogue in Northern Ireland’s capital city. But every other Wednesday, the place is hopping. A gaggle of seniors gathers for lectures, conversation, lunch and socializing. Only some of them are Jewish. “I […]