Swedish lawmakers voted down a bill that would require parents to pay for non-medical circumcision of boys. The right-wing Sweden Democrats party brought the bill to a vote Tuesday at the regional council of Blekinge County in the kingdom’s south, Sveriges Radio reported. The party claimed that the practice should not be covered by the…
An anti-corruption whistleblower elected to head the Budapest Jewish community has sparked a crisis among the highest officials of Hungarian Jewry at a time of heightened tensions with the government. The conflict, one of the fractious community’s most vociferous and colorful fights in years, erupted shortly after the election last month of David Schwezoff as…
Israel’s president has said a bill promoted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that would anchor in law the status of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people runs counter to its founding fathers’ vision of equality for Arab citizens. The bill comes at a time of high tensions in Israel, the occupied West Bank…
A town in central Poland has prepared a development plan that will turn a Jewish cemetery into a residential complex with underground parking. The Jewish community of Warsaw and local activist Robert Augustyniak, who is not Jewish, have protested the plan. The City Council in Grodzisk Mazowiecki held a public discussion on the plan on…
A Jewish construction worker who fell to his death in Petah Tikvah was killed in a terror attack, police say. Nathaniel Arami, 26, fell 11 stories from the side of a high-rise building where he was doing exterior work when both of his rappelling cables snapped in an incident on Sept. 16. His co-workers had…
Eight shoes belonging to prisoners at the former Majdanek concentration camp disappeared from an exhibit at the museum there. The museum on Monday notified police about the theft, which they say likely took place sometime between Nov. 18 and 20. A museum security guard noticed that the wire separating one of the areas holding the…
Israeli officials hit back at U.S. criticism of their country’s proposed “Jewish state” law. “I say to the Americans, we will manage Israel’s affairs,” Israeli Economy Minister Naftali Bennett of the right-wing Jewish Home party told Army Radio on Tuesday. “In the end it’s our problem, it’s a domestic problem and I don’t think anyone…
An Israeli man visiting Berlin suffered a black eye and fractured fingers in a street attack. The Israeli, 22, said he was beaten and kicked Sunday evening after leaving synagogue by four men who spoke German with an Arabic accent, according to reports. “I have no doubt they attacked me because I looked Jewish or…
A trove of documents related to Israel’s 1961 trial of the Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann will be auctioned off in Jerusalem after their discovery in a trash bin. The collection will be up for sale on Dec. 2 at the Kedem Auction House. The sellers have estimated it could bring in more than $20,000. The…
Israel’s president cancelled an appearance at his official residence of an Israeli singer after he released an anti-Arab song. The office of President Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday announced that singer Amir Benayoun would not be allowed to perform at the event scheduled for Sunday at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem to mark the exile and…
An Orthodox Jewish teacher was deported to the United States after serving a jail sentence for sexually abusing four boys at a Jewish school in Melbourne more than two decades ago. David Kramer, 54, was sentenced last year to a non-parole period of 18 months after pleading guilty to abusing the four minors at the…
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