Category: World News

In a new exhibit opening Tuesday, the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. has unveiled what it says is the oldest Jewish book ever discovered.  According to the museum’s dramatic claim, the tiny book is a relic of an 8th-century civilization on the ancient trading route known as the Silk Road, created by Jews […]

When Kinori Sugihara Rosnow helped his Japanese national team clinch sixth place in the World Lacrosse Championship in 2018 by winning a crucial face-off, the game meant more to him than just a tally in the win column. The match was held in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya, and Japan’s victory was over Israel. […]

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a new initiative to expand Holocaust education across British schools, and said the government would build a long-promised Holocaust memorial next to Parliament. Starmer made the pledges Monday at an event with 500 guests, including British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, hosted by the United Kingdom’s Holocaust Educational Trust. Starmer […]

Jews from Warsaw and Israel are among the forces that have stepped in to support relief efforts as Poland battles its worst floods in decades. Poland has deployed 14,000 soldiers to hard-hit areas in the country’s southwest, where water levels are expected to peak on Thursday. Torrential rain from Storm Boris has pounded large swathes […]

BERLIN — The latest effort to craft a path to survival for Germany’s beleaguered rabbinical schools is underway — with help from thousands of miles away in California and Jerusalem. An American Conservative rabbi and an Israeli Reform rabbi have been tapped to lead seminaries associated with the University of Potsdam. The Los Angeles-based American Jewish […]

Two new schools, named for the rabbis Regina Jonas and Abraham Joshua Heschel, are opening alongside two scandal-ridden ones. BERLIN (JR) — The latest effort to craft a path to survival for Germany’s beleaguered rabbinical schools is underway — with help from thousands of miles away in California and Jerusalem. An American Conservative rabbi and an […]

An American Jew is facing the death penalty for his involvement in an attempted political coup in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in late May. Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun — a Washington, D.C.-area native and father of three — was one of three Americans and 37 people total sentenced to death Friday in the DRC […]

BUENOS AIRES — Argentina experienced a 44% increase in reported antisemitic incidents in 2023, mostly after the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, according to a report issued Monday by the country’s Jewish umbrella organization.. The report makes Argentina the latest country to record a spike in antisemitism following the attack and the subsequent Israel-Hamas war […]

Several prominent columnists have resigned from the world’s oldest Jewish newspaper amid allegations that the paper ran fabricated news stories that advanced the Israeli government’s narratives about the war in Gaza. The London Jewish Chronicle deleted nine stories under the byline Elon Perry after criticism that his stories, which were based on anonymous sourcing in […]

KYIV, Ukraine — Dozens of Jewish soldiers and civilians, together with many non-Jewish Ukrainians, gathered Thursday at Kyiv’s Brodsky Central Synagogue to bid farewell to the son of a prominent rabbi who died on the front weeks after being drafted into the Ukrainian army. Anton Samborskyi, 32, was the adopted son of Moshe Azman, one […]