Category: World News

(JTA) — Employers may forbid workers from wearing religious clothes or symbols on the job, a top European Union court ruled, spurring protest by Muslin and Jewish groups. The ruling last month by the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg “is a step backwards from religious freedoms,” Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, president of the Conference of […]

(JTA) — The Argentines who placed stones in front of the Casa Rosada government building this week were marking a grim milestone in their country’s COVID-19 experience: crossing the 100,000-death threshold. They were also echoing a Jewish ritual whose telltale signs — small rocks perched atop gravestones — can be seen in any Jewish cemetery […]

(JTA) — Amid the Taliban’s total takeover of Afghanistan this week, some had specific concerns about one person: that country’s last remaining Jew, 62-year-old Zebulon Simantov. Simantov, who has in recent years lived in Kabul’s only synagogue, said earlier this year that he would leave before the Taliban arrived, possibly for Israel. He has also […]

A Taliban spokesman sat down with Israeli state TV. He says he didn’t mean to. – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement

Turkey repatriates French-Jewish man sentenced to 16 years in jail for buying party drug online – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement

Poland is ‘reviewing’ changes to Israel’s annual school trips to former concentration camps – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement

Polish scholars will not have to apologize for their research into Holocaust pogrom, court rules – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement

Lithuania abandons plan to build conference center atop former Jewish cemetery – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement

Jewish humanitarian groups step in, or try to, as crises unfold in Haiti and Afghanistan – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement