Category: World News

Belgian officials are investigating an explosion in front of a synagogue in Liège early Monday as a possible act of terrorism. The explosion, which took place at 4 a.m., damaged the door of the historic neo-Romanesque synagogue and blew out the windows of multiple buildings across the street. No injuries were reported. A range of […]

BUENOS AIRES — Argentina has issued a new arrest warrant for an Iranian official in connection with the 1994 AMIA Jewish community center bombing in Buenos Aires, at the same time that the alleged mastermind was named the new head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Ahmad Vahidi was appointed head of the IRGC on […]

Police in London have arrested four men they say were spying for Iran on Jewish community sites, with the likely goal of facilitating attacks against them. The arrests come as the U.S.-Israel war on Iran ignites concerns about Iran’s sleeper cells abroad, which have long targeted Jewish and Israeli sites as part of the Islamic […]

A Syrian man was convicted by a Berlin district court Thursday for stabbing a Spanish tourist at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial in February 2025. He was sentenced to 13 years in prison. Identified only as 20-year-old Wassim Al M. under German privacy laws, the man was convicted on multiple charges, including attempted murder and attempted membership […]

A Jewish artist fled a street fair in Buenos Aires after fellow vendors shouted “Zionists out” at her during a dispute over a Palestinian flag, in an episode city officials condemned as an antisemitic attack. The incident on Sunday at the San Telmo fair began when the artist, who was identified as “Karina” by local […]

The first time Iris Hefets was detained by German police, she was standing alone on a street corner in Berlin with a sign that read, “As a Jew and Israeli, stop the genocide in Gaza.” That was October 2023. Hefets, a 60-year-old psychoanalyst who moved from Israel in 2002, was standing by herself because Berlin […]

A trove of sacred Jewish objects from Greece that was stolen by the Nazis and displaced for decades in Poland is finally heading back home.  Poland returned 91 religious and ceremonial artifacts to the Greek government at a ceremony in Warsaw on Wednesday. Among them were Torah scrolls, a Torah mantle and silver finials that […]

A Toronto synagogue was hit by gunfire late on Monday night, just hours after a Purim celebration was held there. No injuries were reported in the shooting, according to police, which targeted Reform synagogue Temple Emanu-El at around 10:49 p.m. The event, which was billed as a “sing-along shpiel” and costume contest, had run until […]