Category: World News

(JR) — A U.S. government delegation tasked with monitoring religious freedom around the world cut a visit to Saudi Arabia short after Saudi officials demanded that a prominent rabbi on the trip remove his kippah. Saudi officials told Rabbi Abraham Cooper, co-chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, to remove his kippah […]

(JR) — The Anne Frank House in the heart of Amsterdam is one of the Netherlands’ most-visited tourist destinations. Outside of the city a memorial commemorates the Westerbork transit camp, where the Franks were sent on their way to Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Several other museums tell the story of Dutch resistance against the Nazis. But […]

(JR) — Protesters opposed to Israel’s war in Gaza demonstrated outside a ceremony to mark the opening of the Netherlands’ first Holocaust museum on Sunday, citing the presence of the Israeli president. More than 1,000 people joined in the protest over the ceremony, which took place in Amsterdam’s historic Portuguese Synagogue. The protesters came from […]

(JR) — Sisters Danielle and Galeet Dardashti grew up with the lore of their grandfather, Younes Dardashti. An Iranian musical icon who sang at the palace of Mohammad Reza Shah, he traversed the country’s concert halls and drew Iranians to their radios every week from the 1940s to the 1960s. Known as the “Nightingale of […]

(JR) — A conference this week marking 25 years since the adoption of international standards for restituting Nazi-looted artwork presented a new set of best practices on the issue that have been adopted by more than 20 countries. The best practices, set out by the World Jewish Restitution Organization, or WJRO, and the Conference on […]

BERLIN (JR) – Abraham Schuster was 5 years old in the spring of 1942 when he and his family were rounded up from their Amsterdam home and shoved onto streetcars under Nazi guard. He remembers it clearly: “We were taken in a big razzia [raid]. We were taken, like many others from the city, and […]

(JR) — Growing up watching hockey, Jordan Harris knew how rare it was to see a player like him on the ice. Out of roughly 700 players in the NHL, only a few dozen are Black. In 2022, the 23-year-old defenseman for the Montreal Canadiens joined the ranks of hockey players of color. But Harris […]

LONDON (JR) — Jewish groups across Britain have voiced concern at the election of a veteran anti-Zionist politician to the U.K. parliament, following a bitterly fought campaign that was dominated by the Israel-Hamas war. George Galloway was elected in the northern town of Rochdale after an election campaign that underscored how the crisis in the Middle […]

(JR) — Swiss Jews are planning a vigil after a 50-year-old member of the Orthodox community in Zurich was stabbed Saturday night in what police say may be a hate crime. The 50-year-old man who was stabbed is hospitalized after suffering life-threatening wounds, according to Tachles, a Swiss Jewish magazine. A 15-year-old male suspect was arrested […]

(JR) — Just three weeks after the singer Eden Golan was chosen to represent Israel at Eurovision, her participation in the music competition is in jeopardy because of the song she wants to sing.  The European Broadcasting Union, which runs the competition, declined to accept the first song Israel submitted to the contest because of […]