Category: World News

BERLIN (JR) — Alongside Munich’s river, construction workers made a sensational discovery last week: Stone tablets carved with the Ten Commandments from the city’s former main synagogue, which was torn down in the summer of 1938 on Adolf Hitler’s orders. The find was announced almost exactly 85 years after the building was destroyed. The object […]

(JR) — The BBC has apologized for an on-air interview in which one of its anchors told former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett that “Israeli forces are happy to kill children.” The journalist, Anjana Gadgil, was interviewing Bennett on Tuesday about the Israel Defense Forces’ incursion this week into the Palestinian West Bank city of […]

LONDON (JR) — The head of the Anti-Defamation League praised the British Labour Party for its efforts to combat antisemitism among its membership but warned that those expelled from the party could seek to coalesce under other banners, including the Green Party. Jonathan Greenblatt, who recently visited Britain to address the United Kingdom government’s All-Party Parliamentary […]

(JR) — British soccer icon David Beckham is known globally for his bevy of championships as well as the “bend” he could put on the ball during 20 seasons of play. But on Sunday, approximately 600 people in a London synagogue saw him exhibit a different talent: saying “Hamotzi,” the Jewish blessing over bread. That […]

(JR) — The Kremlin has said for the first time that it has discussed with U.S. officials a possible prisoner exchange involving the Jewish American journalist Evan Gershkovich, who has been held in a Russian prison since March. The U.S. ambassador to Russia visited Gershkovich on Monday, marking the first time a consular official has […]

BERLIN (JR) – A Jewish religious court has convened to hear testimony against a Berlin rabbi who was fired following allegations that he preyed on young women, using religious arguments to lure them into sexual relationships. The beit din, or religious court, of Germany’s Orthodox rabbinical association, the ORD, announced on Monday night that it […]

(JR) — When the mayor of the British city of Norwich apologized last spring for the historic assault on local Jews that took place nearly 900 years ago, it was hailed as a major step. Now the city could go even farther — by handing its oldest non-church building over to its local Jewish community. […]

(JR) — Russia has labeled Pinchas Goldschmidt, the former chief rabbi of Moscow, a “foreign agent” a year after he left the country and refused to pledge his support for the war in Ukraine. The designation cannot be contested in court and bars those assigned it from participating in many aspects of public life in […]

(JR) — A Holocaust memorial in a suburb of Paris was defaced late last week amid widespread protests of the police killing of a French teen. The memorial in Nanterre — the inner-ring suburb where the teen, who has been identified only as Nahel, lived with his family — was spray-painted with anti-police slogans on […]

(JR) — Soccer players in Italy will no longer be permitted to wear the number 88, which has a secret antisemitic meaning among neo-Nazis, thanks to a joint initiative announced Tuesday between Italy’s government and the Italian soccer federation. The number 88 has been used by neo-Nazis as a coded antisemitic symbol meaning “Heil Hitler,” […]