Category: World News

(JR) — Iran’s weightlifting federation banned one of its athletes for life after he shook hands and posed for a photo with an Israeli athlete at an international competition in Poland. Mostafa Rajaei finished second in his category at the 2023 World Master Weightlifting Championships on Saturday. Rajaei, standing on the podium wrapped in an […]

(JR) — Israel’s ambassador to Romania met with the leader of a right-wing political party there that Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial, has denounced over past comments about the genocide and World War II. On Monday, Ambassador Reuven Azar met in Bucharest with George Simion, president of the AUR party, and Yossi Dagan, the chairman […]

(JR) — What appears to have been the first-ever passenger flight between Saudi Arabia and Israel has taken place — even though the two countries have not yet established diplomatic relations. An Air Seychelles flight to Tel Aviv made an emergency landing on Monday in the the port city of Jeddah, where passengers spent the […]

(JR) — A mass grave of Jews killed by the Nazis has been identified in Latvia following decades of searching. Separately, the body of a World War II Jewish resistance fighter buried in a mass grave has been identified in the Netherlands. The grave in Latvia was located using technology created by American researchers, LTV […]

(JR) — A Russian court has extended the pretrial detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich for another three months. In a hearing on Thursday at Lefortovo District Court that was closed to press, a judge ordered Gershkovich to remain in detention until at least Nov. 30, a court spokeswoman said. Investigators from the […]

(JR) — Earlier this month, the small Jewish community in the British city of York celebrated the arrival of a new rabbi, its first since the city’s Jewish community was nearly wiped out in a pogrom in 1190. Or so they thought. Just weeks after the new rabbi, Elisheva Salamo, arrived in the city, a […]

(JR) — Malka Leifer, a former principal at an Australian school for Orthodox girls who was convicted in April of abusing students in her care, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. The sentencing marks a conclusion to a 15-year saga that at times strained relations between Australia and Israel, where Leifer fled in […]

BUENOS AIRES (JR) — Gal Gadot revealed in an interview that went viral in Argentine media that she would like to collaborate with Damian Szifron, an acclaimed Argentine-Jewish director who often weaves Jewish characters into his work. A snippet of the Israeli “Wonder Woman” star talking to Argentine journalist Agustin Eme about Szifron was viewed […]

(JR) — Ilias Kasidiaris has been in a Greek prison since 2021 for his involvement with the far-right Golden Dawn party. The group disbanded after several members were convicted of running a criminal organization linked to hate crimes. But that hasn’t stopped Kasidiaris, who has a swastika tattoo, from running to be mayor of Athens. […]

BERLIN (JR) — Plans to turn Hitler’s birth house into a police station have turned a small Austrian town upside down. The local administration of Branau announced Monday its concrete plans to put the building to practical use, promising to house a police training program on issues related to human rights. But less than two […]