Category: World News

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 […]

It wasn’t always this way. As I watch the war unfold with trepidation and hope for the land where the Purim story takes place, I keep thinking about what kind of country Iran has been and what it could be.   My grandfather (whom I called Saba) Younes Dardashti, a devout Jew, became one of Iran’s […]

Jews in Ireland reported over 100 antisemitic incidents through a communal reporting system within six months after it launched, according to a new report. The findings published early Monday by the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland constitute the first attempt to document antisemitic incidents in Ireland. Irish Jews, a small community of about 2,200, reported […]

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, was killed Saturday morning during a joint U.S.-Israeli strike that hit targets throughout the country, Israeli officials have announced. In a televised address late Saturday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there were “growing signs” that Khamenei had been killed during an Israeli strike on his compound in Tehran. Shortly […]