Category: World News

BERLIN – For the first time in its 73-year history, Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial museum and archive, is establishing educational centers outside the Jewish state. The institution announced in a statement Thursday that the first centers will be in Germany — one in Munich, and a subsidiary in Leipzig. The Conference of European Rabbis, […]

The British Museum postponed a lecture titled ‘‘Ancient Israel and Judah” that was scheduled to take place Thursday on its premises.  The museum announced later on Thursday that the event “will take place early next month,” adding that booking details would be published on its website “shortly.” The museum stated that, “A respectful and secure […]

In my consultations with Jewish families assessing whether they may qualify for German citizenship, I often realize that they learned about this opportunity almost by accident. This motivates me to provide more context because, especially since 2021, Germany created broader legal pathways that opened significantly more opportunities for families affected by Nazi persecution to apply […]

A huge fire broke out Wednesday morning at the Kosher Kingdom supermarket in Golders Green, London’s heavily Orthodox Jewish neighborhood. Firefighters were still working to put out the blaze six hours later.  Metropolitan Police said Wednesday afternoon the fire was not being treated as suspicious and was “believed to have been caused by an electrical […]

Dozens of European Jewish leaders, joined by Israeli and American diplomats, decried Antwerp prosecutors who plan to charge two Jewish men with performing illegal circumcisions. In an open letter on Tuesday to European and Belgian officials, 45 communal and religious Jewish leaders accused the Antwerp Public Prosecutor’s Office of “effectively criminalizing the act of circumcision” […]

Israel criticized Ukraine Monday after President Volodymyr Zelensky gave full state honors to a Ukrainian nationalist leader who was part of a movement that collaborated with the Nazis during World War II. During a reburial ceremony on Sunday, Zelensky described Andriy Melnyk and his wife, Sofia Fedak-Melnyk, as “iconic Ukrainians of the 20th century who […]

The United States announced it had launched defensive strikes on Monday in Southern Iran, targeting Iranian missile sites and boats it believed were placing mines. The move threatens to derail an already fragile ceasefire between the United States, Iran and Israel aimed at giving the U.S. and Iran space to hammer out a deal to […]

The former prosecutor who led the investigation into a mysterious 2015 death that unnerved Argentina’s Jewish community has been charged with concealing evidence in the case. Viviana Fein was indicted on May 12 on charges of “aggravated concealment” over her handling of the investigation into the death of Alberto Nisman, a special prosecutor appointed to […]

A Jewish man says he was assaulted early Monday morning in Golders Green, a heavily Orthodox neighborhood of London where residents are on high alert after recent antisemitic attacks. In a statement to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, London’s Metropolitan Police said the assault was being treated as an antisemitic hate crime and said the victim […]