Palestinian refugee receives Spanish citizenship after discovering Sephardic roots
Seeking “a country to fall” back on, Heba Nabil Iskandarani discovered that the mother of her Jaffa-born paternal grandfather was likely a Jewish w…
Streaming services urged to remove French rapper’s songs on Hitler, Jews and money
France’s oldest anti-racism watchdog group called on internet giants to remove from their platforms newly released hit rap songs.
‘Don’t vote for a Jew’: London mayoral hopeful suspended
“I am deeply ashamed of the ignorant and abusive language,” Geeta Sidhu-Robb of the Liberal Democrats party said after the video surfaced.
Danish parliament to debate bill that would ban non-medical circumcision
The president of the Jewish Community in Denmark says the measure represents “the worst threat since World War II.”
Swedish Muslims protesting far-right chant about killing Jews
The chants occurred during riots over a Danish politician’s plan to travel to Malmo and burn a copy of the Quran.
Jewish woman celebrates 111th birthday in South Africa
“I never had a car. I used to walk a lot,” Rosalie Wolpe said during an interview three years ago.
Vatican hid Holocaust orphans from families, urged Pope not to protest deportations
Historian David I. Kertzer unearthed the developments in Vatican archive documents that were recently unsealed.
Frankfurt’s new $58M Jewish museum reclaims Anne Frank’s forgotten roots test
The museum, which will open to the public this fall, features artifacts that the Frank family saved when they fled their native Germany.
‘Free Palestine’ graffiti sprayed on Austrian synagogue
The messages were painted on a wall of the synagogue that was built from the bricks of the original structure that the Nazis destroyed in 1938.
More than 30 headstones damaged at South African Jewish cemetery
“We are fighting a losing battle in our small and shrinking Jewish community,” said the head of the local Jewish burial society.