Canadian leaders have condemned a shooting outside the Sons of Jacob synagogue in Belleville, Ontario, at the start of Yom Kippur that left a police officer seriously injured and forced the congregation to cancel services on the holiest day of the year. “Jewish people must be able to practice their faith safely. They deserve to […]
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The State Department has approved a possible $24.3 billion sale of 48 F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia — a move that would make the kingdom the second Middle Eastern country after Israel to have the world’s most powerful combat aircraft. “This proposed sale will support the foreign policy and national security objectives of the […]
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Sweden’s center-left coalition has overturned Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s right-wing government after a nail-biter election, blocking a far-right party with neo-Nazi roots from its bid to join a cabinet for the first time. Kristersson resigned on Thursday after the public broadcaster SVT called Sweden’s general election for the center-left bloc, led by former prime minister […]
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Police said they are investigating death threats made against a senior Jewish leader in Germany, after she criticized the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. A witness found graffiti scrawled in white ink on a park bench and a trash bin in Munich’s English Garden park, threatening the life of 93-year-old Holocaust survivor Charlotte Knobloch, […]
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The far-right Alternative for Germany party tripled its vote in Lower Saxony’s local elections from five years ago, coming in third in a race won by Germany’s leading conservative party. The nationalist, anti-immigrant AfD siphoned off votes from Germany’s mainstream parties in the northwestern state, home to 8 million people. The election was seen as […]
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Germany’s far-right, riding high after winning an eastern state, seeks to capitalize on its momentum in a series of upcoming elections — starting with municipal voting this weekend, followed by two closely watched state contests. The first test for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party comes Sunday in municipal elections in the western state of […]
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Russia’s war with Ukraine may have slipped from the front pages of American newspapers, but in Ukraine, where I live, it’s inescapable. As August ended, a Russian strike on a shopping center in my city injured 136 people, 26 of them children, as families were readying kids for school. Sixteen people died. Since Russia’s full-scale […]
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VILNIUS, Lithuania — At a family reunion in California in 2013, Felicita Trueblood discovered a portal to the past: a binder full of letters from her great-grandfather, a rabbi in Ukraine, from before World War II. As exciting as the discovery was, the letters were illegible to her — until now, thanks to an artificial […]
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BUENOS AIRES – A Dutch journalist hunting for art treasures belonging to an Amsterdam Jewish art dealer spent years trying to get answers from Patricia Kadgien, the daughter of the Nazi financier who had made off with some of them, with no luck. So last year he went to her house in Mar del Plata, […]
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Several Portuguese artists have dropped out of a comedy festival in Lisbon headlined by Jerry Seinfeld, citing their support for Palestinians and implying opposition to Seinfeld’s support for Israel. At least six acts over recent days have canceled their appearances at the MEO Commedia a La Carte Fest, a new international comedy festival in the […]
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