BERLIN — Gesa Shira Ederberg was not yet a rabbi when she was tapped to lead a seder, to teach Hebrew, and to organize an egalitarian minyan in her home city of Berlin. She happened to be in the right places when help was needed, recalls Ederberg, who was pursuing a degree in Jewish studies […]
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BERLIN – The antisemitism commissioner for the German state of Brandenburg has resigned from his far-left party over a resolution passed Sunday condemning Israel. After 11 years in Die Linke (The Left), Andreas Büttner has quit its ranks over the position taken by members in Lower Saxony, in former West Germany. But it’s also personal: […]
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TIRANA, Albania — Sixteen-year-old Melisa Malo, a 10th-grader at the Gjimnazi Sami Frashëri here, first learned about the Holocaust four years ago when she attended an Albanian-language stage performance of “The Diary of Anne Frank.” That evening, her parents told her how ordinary Muslims and Christians in Albania — an isolated Balkan nation with no […]
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A Guardian column that seemed to rationalize the targeting of a popular Israeli-founded bakery has ignited controversy in the British Jewish community. The March 14 piece in the British daily, by sports and culture writer Jonathan Liew, came days after the newly opened north London branch of Gail’s was repeatedly vandalized, with its windows smashed […]
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A blast late Friday outside a Jewish school in Amsterdam has Dutch police racing to safeguard Jewish institutions after two attacks in two days. As in a blast outside a synagogue in Rotterdam the day before, there were no injuries in the Amsterdam explosion, which caused damage to the school building’s outer wall. “This is […]
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The United States has defended Israel against the charge of genocide in the United Nations’ highest court, as Iceland and the Netherlands gave different opinions. South Africa brought a genocide case against Israel in the International Court of Justice in 2023 over Israel’s campaign in Gaza. The United States has long criticized the case and […]
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Dutch police arrested four teenagers Friday in connection with an overnight fire at a synagogue in the port city of Rotterdam. The fire took place around 3:40 a.m., causing an explosion that damaged the entrance of the building, photos show. No injuries were reported, and the fire went out on its own, police said. Later […]
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MADRID — Spain has permanently withdrawn its ambassador to Israel in a symbolic rebuke of the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has emerged as an unequivocal and lonely voice in Europe against the Iran war, widening Spain’s rift with Israel and making an enemy of President Donald Trump. Ambassador Ana María […]
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As Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, hit several Jewish hotspots in New York City this week, a criminal complaint was filed in his home country against a popular streamer who questioned the leader’s public support for Israel. During a monologue earlier this week, popular Argentinian streamer Tomás Rebord criticized Milei, who has stood out as one […]
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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 […]
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