(JTA)— A vigil held by pro-Israel activists in London for Jews murdered in Arab countries was dispersed violently by men shouting about killing Jews in Arabic. The event Wednesday by the Israel Advocacy Movement was held on Speaker’s Corner in London’s Hyde Park, which is known for its culture of free speech and passionate street […]

I have long known that my grandmother witnessed Kristallnacht. But it is only this year — as we mark the 80th anniversary of the vicious antisemitic pogrom that exploded across Nazi Germany on Nov. 9 and 10, 1938 — that I have come to learn the details of her harrowing experience. Now Esti Kalms, my […]

The moment of silence to observe the tragedy of the Pittsburgh pogrom, was electric with emotion. The meeting room at the Richview Library was packed with Muslims, Jews and Christians who came to partake in a” Muslim-Jewish dialogue” about what to do after Pittsburgh. In partnership with Holocaust Education Week, The Council for Muslims Facing […]

French President says Pétain, who rounded up thousands of Jews, to be honoured because he was a great First World War soldier Emmanuel Macron has announced that Marshal Philippe Pétain, the Nazi collaborator whose administration helped deport of tens of thousands of French Jews to death camps, will be honoured a centenary tribute because he […]

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been hospitalized at George Washington Medical Center in Washington DC after falling in her office at the Court on Wednesday night. Ginsburg reportedly left the Court after her fall and went home but later went to the hospital after she continued to feel unwell. The justice was diagnosed […]

Israelis were denied visas for Riyadh tournament last year and are being supported by The Lawfare Project. Letter to international chess body seeks assurances against anti-Israeli discrimination in chess Two Israeli nationals are requesting that the international chess governing body—the Fédération lnternationale des Échecs (FIDE)—guarantee non-discrimination after they were prevented from taking part in a […]

On the eve of International Holocaust Memorial Day, Rachel Avraham interviewed internationally acclaimed anti-Semitism expert Manfred Gerstenfeld and discussed how the Holocaust continues to affect us to date. A couple of generations after the Holocaust resulted in the murder of 6 million Jewish people and the destruction of European Jewry, the greatest genocide in human […]

From Kamloops to St. John’s, members of our community continue to be subjected to antisemitic harassment, violence and vandalism, a perennial reminder that, after all this time, many still view us as ‘the other’ While the Jewish people have enjoyed a long and meaningful history in Canada, we have not always been welcome in this […]

Nationwide rallies marking the 39th anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the American embassy in Tehran began on Sunday morning under the slogan “Hayhat Minna al-Dhilla (no to humiliation).” In Tehran, the rally was held at the location of the former US embassy, nicknamed by Iranian officials as the “Den of Espionage.” Every year, on […]

Defense comes in response to an American activist’s lawsuit demanding removal of plaque in Vilnius honoring Jonas Noreika Lithuania’s state historical institute on the Soviet domination of the country defended in court a deceased collaborator with Nazi Germany who is accused of murdering Jews. The Center for the Study of the Genocide and Resistance of […]