In a survey among leaders of European Jewish communities, 40 percent of respondents said anti-Semitism is the most serious threat to the future of Jewish life in their country. The result appeared in the Third Survey of European Jewish Leaders and Opinion Formers, which was published Monday by the International Centre for Community Development of…
A former teacher at two Toronto-area Jewish day schools has been charged with a variety of sex offenses. Stephen Joseph Schacter, 55, was charged in December with one count of possessing child pornography. At the time, police encouraged his former students to come forward. On Feb. 24, police arrested him again and charged him with…
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take a case filed by a Jewish inmate accusing North Carolina prison officials of discrimination because they would not allow him to form a prayer and study group. The court did not explain its decision Monday not to hear Israel Ben-Levi’s case, The Associated Press reported. In a dissenting…
A Jewish attorney and scholar who tracks extremist groups is being credited with saving three Ku Klux Klan members at an anti-immigration rally in Southern California that turned violent. Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, was filming Saturday’s rally in Anaheim when…
The European Union has condemned a campaign by a new settler organization that verbally attacks its envoy in Jerusalem. The video posted Sunday on Facebook by the Jerusalem’s Periphery Forum, which represents Jewish communities south of Jerusalem, criticizes the EU for funding illegal homes for Bedouin and Palestinians along the major North-South Route 1. The…
A women’s prayer service at the Western Wall was disturbed by protesting haredi Orthodox men and women. The Original Women of the Wall group held morning services on Monday using a small Torah scroll that they smuggled in for the service. The more than 20 women were wearing prayer shawls and phylacteries. According to a…
(JTA) — It’s Friday afternoon at the McGillis School in Salt Lake City, and students from the third through fifth grades are gathered for the weekly Shabbat celebration. They read and discuss a passage about humility by former British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. Then a blonde girl with braided hair prepares to light the candles….
Five women from the ancient Chinese Jewish community of Kaifeng arrived in Israel Monday morning to start their new lives in the Jewish state. Gao Yichen told Arutz Sheva Israel National News that it felt like “magic” to come to Israel. Upon their arrival, Michael Freund, chairman of Shavei Israel, greeted the women at Ben…
Following a student’s resignation from Oxford University’s Labor Club over alleged anti-Semitism, a lawmaker for the British party will head an inquiry into his claims. Baroness Janet Royall, Labor’s former leader of the House of Lords, the British parliament’s upper house, was appointed Friday to head a fresh investigation into the allegations of Jew-hate at…
The last Palestinian employees of SodaStream lost their jobs following the company’s move from the West Bank to southern Israel. The final 74 employees had been commuting to the company’s new location in the Negev desert since the plant in Maale Adumim closed in October. Some 500 Palestinian employees lost their jobs at that time….
An Israeli government minister predicted the collapse of the Palestinian Authority. “The question is not if the PA collapses but when it is going to collapse,” said Immigrant Absorption and Minister of Jerusalem Affairs Ze’ev Elkin on Monday during a speech at Bar-Ilan University. “It can happen in a month or two or a year…
