Category: World News

(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 […]

(JR) — Before the Holocaust, the population of the town of Chmielnik, Poland, was around 80% Jewish. Sephardic Jews, having been expelled from Spain during the Inquisition, settled in Chmielnik and eventually built a synagogue in 1638. After the war, only four Jews remained. Today, the building houses a museum of the town’s Jewish life […]

TOKYO (JR) — Smoky flavor has always tasted like home for Jeremy Freeman. Growing up in New York City, smoked salmon was of course a staple, alongside his daily whitefish salad on a bialy from Russ & Daughters. His favorite pastrami came from the long-closed Gelitz’s deli around the corner from his childhood home, which […]

(JR) — Guatemala elected a new president on Sunday: Bernardo Arevalo, a center-left former congressman and son of a former president. In an election that was marred by controversy — and included the government’s disqualifying of multiple opposition candidates — Arevalo was able to emerge victorious by running on an anti-corruption platform. He defeated Sandra […]

BUENOS AIRES (JR) — Argentina has never had a Jewish president. But that concept could move a step closer to reality after a general election in October. That’s because on Sunday, the leading vote-getter in national primary elections was Javier Milei, a libertarian who wants to convert Argentina’s currency to the U.S. dollar and has […]

BERLIN (JR) — Police are seeking witnesses to a violent act of vandalism early Tuesday morning that destroyed windows at the headquarters of a foundation that manages multiple Holocaust memorial sites. The Foundation for Memorial Sites in Lower Saxony, in the town of Celle, oversees the memorials at the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and the […]