What do Jews think of Jesus?

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Nearly half of French Jews hide religious symbols

An increasing number of French Jews believe that antisemitism is widespread in their country, according to a new survey conducted by the American Jewish Committee. Read more

Ukraine’s Jewish community in danger as Russian troops, supplies mass at border

A possibly imminent invasion by Russian troops into Ukrainian territory has the world on edge as leaders and experts try to guess Russian President Vladimir Putin’s next steps and prevent what could become the largest military action in Europe since World War II. Read more

How Europe’s Jews understand their Jewish lives

The Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR) has published a major new study of European Jewish identity, providing an updated profile of how the more than one million Jews living in the EU and UK today understand and live their Jewish lives. Read more

Heard again: Cries of ‘Death to the Jews!’ in a Polish city

In her recent co-authored book Philo-Semitic Violence: Poland’s Jewish Past in New Polish Narratives, the Warsaw-based literary scholar Elzbieta Janicka recounts an episode from Poland’s past that sheds a great deal of light on Poland’s present…writes Ben Cohen. Read more

Iranian ayatollah: ‘Jews are the greatest problem of Islam and humanity’

 

According to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s representative in Iran’s Southern Khorasan Province, the Jews are humanity’s greatest problem. Read more

The Igbo Jews

In 1960 Nigeria gained independence from the United Kingdom. As with many new African states, the borders of the country did not reflect earlier ethnic, cultural, religious, or political realities. Read more

Just when you think you have heard it all

It seems there is no limit when it comes to covering news about Israel and Jews. This week in particular has served up yet more examples of the absurdities we face…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more

Do the Jews control the World?

Our secret is out.  The Jews control the world!  We own the media. Politicians do our bidding.  Wall Street is a Jewish shtetle.  Hollywood moguls make secret deals in Yiddish.  Jewish professors propagandise their students to support Israel.  Jewish puppet masters pull the strings and their compliant puppets simply follow…writes Alan Dershowitz. Read more

From Statelessness to Power: Israel and the reversal of antisemitism

In recent years the State of Israel has become an object of deep affection for many of the Western world’s conservatives, especially in the United States…writes Bill Rubinstein. Read more

Year zero: the Palestinians and the Balfour Declaration

For the Palestinians, the year zero is not 1948, when the state of Israel came into being, but 1917, when Great Britain issued, in the November of that year, the Balfour Declaration—expressing support for the establishment of a “Jewish national home” in Palestine…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org. Read more

Harvey Weinstein’s disgrace produces another nasty caricature

Walking through central London last week, and with a spare half hour on my hands, I decided to pay a quick visit to the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square. Inside, I spent most of my time intently studying a painting that I could not recall having seen before: “The Philosopher,” a 1645 canvas by the Italian painter Salvator Rosa…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org. Read more

The Jews of Greece- Οι Εβραίοι της Ελλάδας

The Sydney Jewish Museum will launch its new temporary exhibition, The Jews of Greece later this month. Read more

Far-right AfD party’s rise highlights a ‘fine line’ for German Jews and Israel

The rise of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the country’s recent election has been described as a “political earthquake,” while Jewish leaders’ immediate reaction was to express concern about AfD’s views. But what are the broader implications of the party’s electoral showing for German Jews and for Israel?…writes Alina Dain Sharon/JNS.org. Read more

Shira’s Journey – The Jews of Greece

“Shira’s Journey” is a screenplay by Carol Freeman Gordon, with Photos by Emmanuel Santos…a video story. Read more

Palestine – Netanyahu sends clear message to Trump, Putin, May and UN

Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu has had a busy week meeting with UK Foreign Minister Boris Johnson in Jerusalem, President Vladimir Putin in Moscow and then back to Jerusalem for a five-hour meeting with President Trump’s Special Representative for International Negotiations – Jason Greenblatt…writes David Singer. Read more

Indifference has not gone away

World Jewish Congress Ronald S. Lauder has addressed an official Holocaust commemoration ceremony in the Greek capital Athens, and in recalling the tragedy that nearly destroyed the Jewish community in Greece, asked whether the world has really learnt the lessons of the Holocaust. Read more

Jews is News

Hardly a day passes when Jews and the Jewish State are not featured in the media…writes Michael Kuttner.
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Once-verdant Irish Jewish community paling over time

An Israeli and an Irish Jew walk into a bar. After a shot of whiskey and a pint of Guinness, they discuss neither leprechauns nor the verdant landscape, but rabbinics…writes Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman/JNS.org. Read more

The Angel of Kaunas

Electronics giant Philips is behind a book being written by Dutch author Jan Brokken on the story of Jan Zwartendijk, also known as the “Angel of Kaunas” and wants to hear from anyone whose family may have survived the Holocaust because of his help. Read more

Pilgrims’ Progress

We are in the midst of Succoth commonly known in English as the Feast of Tabernacles…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more

Mounting malevolence

In my pre Rosh Hashanah op-ed, I explained why there was no chance of genuine peace breaking out in the year ahead…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more

Spanish parliament approves law granting citizenship to Sephardic Jews

Spain’s Chamber of Deputies has approved a law aimed at granting citizenship to descendants of Sephardic Jews who were expelled during the Spanish Inquisition.  Read more

Lord Sacks says Jews now hated for their nation State

At a roundtable discussion entitled “Islam and BDS in Europe: A Strategic Threat?”, held today at the 2015 Herzliya Conference, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi Emeritus of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth discussed the issue of new antisemitism and its manifestation with the BDS movement, claiming that “Anti-Zionism is the new antisemitism” and calling on Europe to support Jews in opposition against this new form of racism. Read more

The Muslim Nation which saved Jews…

During the Holocaust, many individuals and small groups risked their lives to save Jewish people….writes Barbara Heggen. Read more

French police issue arrest warrants for suspects in 1982 Jewish deli attack

 French police have identified three suspects in a terror attack on a Jewish deli in Paris that occurred 32 years ago.  Read more

Shuffling the deckchairs…writes Michael Kuttner

Current events in Europe evoke memories of shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic as the superliner steamed its way towards its catastrophic fate. Read more

French Jews on the move

A record 8,000 people, mostly between the ages of 16 and 35, have visited Israel opportunity fairs held by The Jewish Agency for Israel and the Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption this week across France. Read more

What does new citizenship law mean for Portuguese and world Jewry?…aska Alina Dain Sharon

Five-hundred years after thousands of Jews were burned at the stake or forcefully converted, and many others expelled due to the Inquisition, the Portuguese Cabinet has decided to grant citizenship to the descendants of those Jews as reparation for that persecution. Read more

A personal account of the liberation of the Bergen concentration camp

Lt-Col Leonard Berney RA TD tells J-Wire of his participation and the events surrounding the liberation of the notorious Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Read more

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