As Ukraine’s Jews face a future awash in uncertainty, some are turning to a realm they can control — the language and rituals that define their identity. Rabbi Irina Gritsevskaya, who leads the Masorti movement in Ukraine, published the first Ukrainian translation of a children’s prayer book in January. Titled “Singing of the Heart” in […]
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German authorities have arrested a 19-year-old suspect in a Friday stabbing attack at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial. The arrest of the suspect, a Syrian citizen who, according to police, said he wanted to kill Jews, came shortly after the Thursday arrest of another teenager, a Russian citizen accused of plotting an attack on the Israeli embassy […]
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The far-right Alternative for Germany came in second place in German elections Sunday, taking a record 21% in a vote won by the center-right. But Alternative for Germany, known as AfD, is unlikely to join Germany’s governing coalition. The party that won the election, the Christian Democratic Union, has pledged to boycott AfD — despite […]
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BERLIN — The upcoming German election — in which the country’s far-right party is projected to come in second — was already going to be an anxious one for the country’s Jews. Then, in a speech in Munich last week, 10 days before Sunday’s vote, Vice President J.D. Vance attacked the so-called “firewall” Germany’s mainstream […]
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Leaders in Israel, the United States and worldwide expressed their sadness and horror as the bodies of four dead hostages returned to Israel from Gaza on Thursday. Many of the messages focused on Shiri Bibas and her children Ariel and Kfir, ages 4 and 9 months at the time of their abduction, who were the […]
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Youssef, a Syrian refugee now living in Stockholm, is in the unique position of having a job where he helps other refugees. He works at a Swedish recruitment agency, Randstad, guiding refugees through job applications, translations from Swedish, and interview prep. “I have gone through many difficulties as a refugee,” said Youssef, who asked that […]
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A Montreal synagogue was graffitied with a swastika on Shabbat, drawing condemnation from Canadian officials as well as a defiant response from the synagogue’s rabbi. A congregant at Temple Emanu-El Beth Sholom, a Reform congregation in the city, noticed the 3-foot-wide symbol on the synagogue’s side on Saturday afternoon. At the time, according to the […]
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On June 15, 1942, days after receiving a diary for her 13th birthday, Anne Frank wrote that a classmate she had only recently met “is now my best friend.” She and that friend, Jacqueline van Maarsen, promised to write each other goodbye letters if they were forced apart — which came to pass just weeks […]
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In a speech in Munich, Vice President J.D. Vance scolded European leaders for boycotting populist parties, and said German politicians should abandon their policy of maintaining a “firewall” against the far-right. Vance’s speech to the Munich Security Conference on Friday was greeted with murmurs from the audience and backlash from German officials. It comes as […]
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Vice President J.D. Vance will visit the site of the Dachau concentration camp on Thursday, the latest in a string of senior U.S. officials to travel to the former Nazi camp. Vance will visit Dachau before heading to the nearby Munich Security Conference, an elite national security gathering, multiple outlets reported on Tuesday. He wrote […]
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