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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising’s 80th Anniversary Marked With an 11th Commandment...
Helena Czernek designed the paper daffodil over a decade ago. (Dinah Spritzer via JTA.org) Dinah Spritzer WARSAW — Exactly 80 years ago, a few hundred ragtag, half-starved Jews emerged from sewers in...
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UK Labour Party Suspends Senior Lawmaker Diane Abbott Over Comment About...
Diane Abbott speaks at an anti-racism protest in London on July 17, 2021. (Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images via JTA.org) Gabe Friedman Britain’s Labour Party suspended senior...
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Polish-Jewish Group Releases Antisemitism Report That Shows Steep Increase in...
Graffiti found in Warsaw reads “Morawiecki is Chabad Lubavitch,” referring to the country’s non-Jewish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and the Hasidic Chabad-Lubavich movement. Morawiecki’s...
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Frankfurt Can’t Cancel Roger Waters Concert Over His Antisemitism Record,...
Roger Waters. Jethro via Wikimedia Commons Gabe Friedman Frankfurt’s administrative court ruled that the city can’t cancel a Roger Waters concert after calling him “one of the most widely known...
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German Man Who Was Oldest-ever Tried for Nazi Crimes Dies at 102
Former Nazi concentration camp guard Josef Schütz hides his face with a folder as he arrives at a makeshift courtroom in Brandenburg-Havel to hear the verdict in his trial on June 28, 2022. (Adam...
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Rugby’s Governing Body Ruled That South Africa’s Exclusion of Israel Was Not...
Gabriel Ibitoye of the Tel-Aviv Heat during the Rugby Europe Super Cup on Oct. 16, 2021 in Tbilisi, Georgia. (Levan Verdzeuli/Getty Images via JTA.org) Jacob Gurvis Rugby’s global governing body has...
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Hundreds, Including Yad Vashem, Condemn Polish Government’s Attack on...
Barbara Engelking is a leading scholar on Polish-Jewish history during the Holocaust. (Adrian Grycuk/Wikimedia Commons via JTA.org) Dinah Spritzer A Polish political feud over Holocaust history has...
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Switzerland to Erect First National Memorial Honoring Nazi Victims
A view of the Federal Palace in Bern, Switzerland. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA.org) Jackie Hajdenberg The Swiss government agreed Wednesday to help pay for the country’s first national memorial to honor...
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Dutch Archives on Accused Nazi Collaborators to Open to the Public in 2025
Until Jan. 1, 2025, public access to the Central Archives of the Special Administration of Justice (CABR) is limited. (Wikimedia via JTA>org) Jackie Hajdenberg The Dutch government is planning to...
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Barbra Streisand Is Getting the Next ‘Jewish Nobel,’ in Prize’s Return to...
Barbra Streisand and Sydney Chaplin. Exponent archives Jackie Hajdenberg The prize dubbed the “Jewish Nobel” will be going to Barbra Streisand later this year, in a return to its tradition of honoring...
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South African Jewish Journalist Jeremy Gordin Murdered in Home Burglary at 70
Jeremy Gordin offers a toast in an undated family photo. (Courtesy Gordin family via JTA.org) Jeremy Gordin, one of South Africa’s most prominent journalists, wrote repeatedly in recent months about...
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Does Anime Have a Nazi Problem? Some Jewish Fans Think So
Nazis are villains in the “Hellsing” series and many other anime shows. (Screenshot from YouTube via JTA.org) TAIPEI — When the Season 3 plot twist of “Attack on Titan” aired in 2019, viewers wasted no...
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All the Jewish Details of King Charles’ Coronation
An office window shows coronation posters in Golders Green, a heavily Jewish neighborhood of London on May 2. (Deborah Danan via JTA.org) Deborah Danan and Gabe Friedman LONDON — At a reception of...
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Jewish Federations to Hold Online Rally for Evan Gershkovich, Jewish...
The Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich appears in a Moscow court on April 18 to appeal the decision to keep him in a former KGB prison until at least May 29. (Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency via...
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European Union Embassy Cancels Event Where Far-right Israeli Politician Was...
Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir after a vote in the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on Feb. 15. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 via JTA>org) Ben...
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5 Killed, Including 2 Jewish Pilgrims, in Shooting Attack on Historic...
Jewish pilgrims at the Ghriba synagogue in Tunisia’s southern resort island of Djerba on May 8. (Hasan Mrad/DeFodi Images via Getty Images via JTA.org) Ron Kampeas A gunman killed five people in an...
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Israel’s Foreign Minister Cuts India Visit Short as Jews Caught in Crossfire...
Jordyn Haime India’s small Bnei Menashe community is reeling after a member was killed and a synagogue was burned during violent clashes in the country’s northeast. Some members of the community,...
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‘Jewish Life Goes on’: Djerba Jews, Supporters Show Resilience After Deadly...
Interior of La Ghriba Synagogue, Djerba, Tunisia (Photo courtesy of Chrystie Sherman/Diarna Geo-Museum of North African & Middle Eastern Jewish Life via JTA.org) Ron Kampeas The day after a gunman...
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Citing Brexit, European Rabbinical Group Moves Headquarters from London to...
Bavaria’s Minister-President Markus Söder, center, receives an award from the Conference of European Rabbis in Munich on May 9. On right is CER President Pinchas Goldschmidt and on left is Charlotte...
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Adidas to Sell Off Yeezy Shoes, Donate Proceeds to Those ‘Hurt by Kanye’s...
The Adidas logo is pictured on a building in Manchester, England, on July 14, 2022. (Daniel Harvey Gonzalez/In Pictures via Getty Images via JTA.org) Andrew Lapin The sportswear giant Adidas has...
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