Jewish school girls were verbally assaulted with anti-Semitic slurs in Berlin on Monday, in the second attack on Jews reported in the German capital in less than a week. Last week, Daniel Alter, a Berlin rabbi, was assaulted by youths in West Berlin in a suspected anti-Semitic attack, witnessed by his 6-year-old daughter. Alter told…
The Catholic Church condemned the so-called “price-tag” attack against an Christians monastery on Tuesday, with high-ranking church offices denouncing the “teaching of contempt” against Christians prevalent in Israeli society. Earlier Tuesday, the door of a Christian monastery in Latrun, near Jerusalem, was set on fire on morning, and anti-Christian slogans were found spray-painted on the…
Witwatersrand University in South Africa has distanced itself from a student association decision to boycott Israel. In a statement released Monday, the university said that it does not share the initiative of the Wits Student Representative Council, adopted Aug. 31, which calls for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel, and for further support of…
A group of African migrants have been trapped between the barrier fences on the Israeli-Egyptian border for the past five days. Last Thursday, 21 Africans reached the border in the area north of Kadesh Barnea in an effort to infiltrate into Israel, but apparently were stymied by obstacles in the open areas between the two…
The owners of a men’s clothing store in the Indian state of Gujarat said they would change the store’s name from Hitler. The store in Ahmedabad is named for one of the proprietor’s grandfather, whose nickname was Hitler. He reportedly was called Hitler “because of his strict nature,” according to The Times of India. Shop…
A Christian monastery was vandalized and set alight in what appears to be a price tag attack. The door of the Latrun Monastery was set on fire early Tuesday morning, and the names of West Bank outposts were spray-painted on the walls, as was the epithet “Jesus is a monkey.” No one was injured in…
A yearlong investigation into anti-Semitic epithets painted on the memorial to the Jedwabne pogrom was closed. The Lomza District Prosecutor ended the investigation on Monday after being unable to locate the perpetrators. In August 2011, graffiti painted on the wall next to the monument in Jedwabne read “I do not apologize for Jedwabne” and “They…
A room and a courtyard of a Palestinian family home in eastern Jerusalem were turned over to Jewish residents. On Sunday, the room was sealed off from the rest of the house with metal sheeting and barbed wire, according to reports. A Palestinian couple and their 2-year-old son had lived in the room. Seventeen other…
Haredi Orthodox rabbis in New York are accusing the city’s Department of Health of “spreading lies” in order to pass a law mandating that parents sign a consent waiver in order to use a controversial circumcision-related rite. The health department is scheduled to vote next week on the waiver for the use of direct oral-genital…
The Student Representative Council of the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa adopted a resolution calling for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel. In the resolution passed Aug. 31, the Wits Student Representative Council declared that it will not participate in any form of cultural or academic collaboration or joint projects with Israeli institutions….
Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz threatened to cut government funding for Tel Aviv’s bicycle rental service if the mayor does not retract what Katz said was a decision to allow the rental stations to operate on Yom Kippur. Katz said Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai was “infringing on the holiest day for the Jews” to gain…
