Category: World News

Two men were arrested in London on Wednesday in connection with an arson attack days earlier that destroyed four ambulances owned by Hatzola, a Jewish volunteer emergency service. A 47-year-old man was arrested in northwest London and a 45-year-old man in central London, according to the Metropolitan Police. Both are suspected of arson with intent […]

Two minors have been arrested in connection with a car burning in the Jewish quarter of Antwerp in what is being treated as an antisemitic attack, Belgian prosecutors say. The two suspects were arrested shortly before midnight Monday, just minutes after setting the vehicle on fire. Prosecutors also say the investigation includes a video circulating […]

For nearly two decades, the families of victims of Iranian-sponsored terrorism have watched a 36-story Manhattan skyscraper generate millions in rental income for the Islamic Republic while their court judgments against Iran went unsatisfied.  On Monday, amid the Israeli-American war against Iran,  that wait finally produced a result: a $318 million settlement that will direct […]

King Charles has been named the first-ever patron of a British Jewish security nonprofit, a move announced in the wake of an arson attack that targeted four ambulances owned by a Jewish volunteer emergency service in north London. The Community Security Trust, Britain’s main antisemitism watchdog, announced that King Charles had accepted the role — […]

President Donald Trump announced on Monday that the United States had been negotiating an end to the war in Iran for the past two days, marking the first signal from the president of high-level talks with Tehran since the war began with joint U.S.-Israeli strikes last month. The talks had been “very good and productive,” […]

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has denounced the arson of ambulances owned by a Jewish volunteer emergency service as a “horrifying” instance of antisemitism. “An attack on our Jewish community is an attack on us all,” he said. “We will fight the poison that is antisemitism.” The four ambulances owned by Hatzola were parked next […]

Germany, an early defender of Israel against allegations of genocide in Gaza at the International Court of Justice, has pulled support as it faces its own charges for aiding Israel. Germany will no longer intervene on Israel’s behalf, a spokesperson for the German Foreign Ministry told reporters on Wednesday. South Africa brought a genocide case […]

Two Iranian men in Britain have been charged with allegedly spying on the Jewish community in London on behalf of Iran. The arrests come as French police say they thwarted a plot against Jewish targets by supporters of the Islamic State, and as Belgium deploys its army to patrol Jewish sites following a blast at […]

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 […]