Category: World News

The Colombian Jewish community is reeling after an anti-Zionist rabbi was tapped to be the country’s director of religious affairs. Richard Gamboa Ben-Eleazar was appointed to the post in Colombia’s Ministry of the Interior by Colombian President Gustavo Petro according to an announcement Gamboa made on X last Thursday. He thanked Petro for “the opportunity […]

In a major shift, Emmanuel Macron said France will move to formally recognize the state of Palestine in the coming months. The French president said in a TV interview Wednesday that recognition of a Palestinian state could encourage adversaries of Israel, such as Iran or Saudi Arabia, to grant it recognition. “We must move toward […]

A far-right party with a record of extremist rhetoric, including minimizing the Holocaust, will not be part of Germany’s government, despite coming in second during national elections earlier this year. The formation of a governing coalition on Wednesday made official what had appeared clear since the election: that Alternative for Germany, known as AfD, would […]

Two Swedish teens tried to attack the Israeli embassy in Stockholm last year at the direction of Iran, Swedish police determined. A 15-year-old who was directed to travel to the embassy with a gun last May was arrested before he arrived, but the next day a 14-year-old fired shots near the embassy before being apprehended, […]

A German woman who was convicted at age 97 of aiding in the murder of 10,500 people during the Holocaust has died at 99. Irmgard Furchner’s death was announced by the court in northern Germany that determined last year that she was an accessory to thousands of murders that took place at a Nazi concentration […]

In 2009, Dennis Gaitsgory, an Israeli-American who was then a math professor at Harvard University, co-wrote a petition asking the two leading Israeli politicians — conservative Benjamin Netanyahu and centrist Tzipi Livni — not to include Avigdor Liberman, seen as a hardliner, in any governing coalition they would form. It didn’t work. When Netanyahu became […]

Eighty years after Auschwitz was liberated from the Nazis, Jews who make a pilgrimage there can eat kosher food. A mile from the concentration camp, visitors will be able to buy packaged, shelf-stable kosher meals for the first time at the Auschwitz Jewish Center — now a museum and the only surviving synagogue in Oświęcim, […]

A kiddush cup that may have been passed around the Friday night dinner table during the reign of Ghengis Khan will be available for auction this fall. The rare remnant of the Silk Road, the ancient Asian trading route that was home to vibrant Jewish communities, is the oldest known Jewish artifact from the Middle […]