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Man whose info was found on Jersey shooter nabbed on gun charge

A New Jersey man whose number was found in the back pocket of one of the perpetrators of last week's fatal attack on a Jewish market has been arrested for illegally possessing a weapon, federal authorities said.

December 15, 2019

Beverly Hills synagogue ransacked, images of suspect caught on camera

'This cowardly attack hits at the heart of who we are as a community,' Mayor John Mirisch said in a statement.

December 15, 2019

‘Miracle’ door that prevented Yom Kippur massacre at German synagogue to become work of art

The transformation of the door into an art work was announced by the head of Halle’s Jewish community.

December 15, 2019

NJ killers’ real target: Jewish school 3 feet from market where 50 children studied

The couple who burst into a kosher market in New Jersey with assault weapons appear to have been targeting a Torah academy next door, according to Jersey City mayor Steven Fulop. By World Israel News Staff a...

December 14, 2019

Israel welcomes anti-Semitic Belgian parade’s removal from UNESCO list

Israel on Saturday welcomed a decision by UNESCO to drop a famous Belgian carnival off its heritage list due to grotesquely anti-Semitic displays.

December 14, 2019

WATCH: Hate crimes targeting Jews spike in France

Along the French-German border, Jews are experiencing a dramatic rise in anti-Semitic attacks and other crimes targeting their community.

December 14, 2019

Former London mayor appears to blame Jews for Labour defeat

Former London mayor sparks 'fresh anti-Semitism row' with comments about Jewish vote.

December 13, 2019

In this Oct. 16, 2017 photo Ursula Haverbeck arrives at the Tiergarten District Court in Berlin, Germany.

Germany: 91-year-old neo-Nazi denied early release

Haverback has been convicted several times but long avoided prison due to lengthy appeals.

December 12, 2019

President Donald Trump signs an executive order combatting anti-Semitism in the U. S. during a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019, in Washington.

US Jewish groups applaud Trump executive order on combating campus anti-Semitism

A recent AJC survey found that more than a third of Jews ages 18-29 had either experienced anti-Semitism on campus in the past five years, or knew someone who had.

December 12, 2019

Boris Johnson (l) and Jeremy Corbyn (AP)

UK goes to the polls in fateful vote for Britain’s Jews

The Labour party under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn has become a hotbed of anti-Semitic sentiment.

December 12, 2019

WATCH: Corbyn supporters spew anti-Semitism

As British Jews demonstrated against Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn, his supporters responded with anti-Semitic cliches and lies.

December 12, 2019

‘Jews are dead? That’s great’: Bystanders spew anti-Semitic hate after NJ attack

In the wake of a deadly anti-Semitic attack, video emerged of Jersey City residents at the crime scene railing against Jews and expressing delight at the carnage.

December 11, 2019

Britain's Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn

Corbyn cutting into Boris Johnson’s lead day before UK elections

Conservative party still expected to win a slim majority in Parliament.

December 11, 2019

President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019, in Hershey, Pa.

Trump to sign order targeting anti-Semitism at colleges

Jewish students discriminated against for their religion will have the same kind of recourse as black students victimized by racism.

December 11, 2019

Authorities say Jewish store targeted in Jersey shooting

Authorities believe the Jewish market was targeted by the gunmen, Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop tweeted Tuesday night.

December 11, 2019

WATCH: Shooting near NJ kosher market leaves 6 dead, several injured

A shooting on Tuesday in a busy area of Jersey City left one police officer dead and several victims wounded, including three Hasidic Jews according to Times of Israel.

December 10, 2019

Netanyahu phones Israeli badly beaten in Paris subway attack

Two assailants broke an Israeli student's nose and caused other injuries during an attack launched after the victim spoke Hebrew on his cell phone.

December 10, 2019

Itsik Moshe, center, hosted in the Knesset, March 2018

Israel’s ‘other’ embassy in Georgia Republic gives official embassy headache

When Beit Yisrael was inaugurated, those in attendance included then-Deputy Foreign Minister of Israel, Ze'ev Elkin.

December 10, 2019

Ronald Lauder creates $25 million campaign to fight anti-Semitism

The president of the World Jewish Congress announced a $25 million campaign called the Anti-Semitism Accountability Project (ASAP).

December 10, 2019

WATCH: ‘The Nazis will kill you,’ shouts anti-Semite at New York Costco

The anti-Semite threatened to pull out a gun and let loose a string of racial epithets.

December 9, 2019

‘Jew money’: Sanders campaign fires staffer for anti-Semitism

'Working hard so one day I can make that Jew money,' tweeted a Sanders campaign staffer named Darius Khalil Gordon in 2010.

December 8, 2019

Israeli Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tzipi Hotovely

Israel slams British Jewish group for advocating Palestinian state, ‘utterly against Israel’s interests’

Tzipi Hotovely slams British Jewish group for advocating Palestinian state, which they know the Israeli government opposes.

December 8, 2019

Bernie Sanders, Linda Sarsour, Cornel West

Opinion: Don’t let Bernie Sanders get away with redefining ‘pro-Israel’

We can only tremble for the future of a Jewish community in which Sanders’s comfort level with anti-Semites becomes normative behavior for American Jews.

December 8, 2019

Opinion: Thanking Trump on Thanksgiving

I’m an American Jew, and last year I started keeping a running tab in my notebook as I was pleasantly surprised time after time by the White House’s strong pushback against anti-Semitic double standards.

December 8, 2019

Germany’s Merkel voices ‘shame’ during first Auschwitz visit

Merkel noted that her visit comes amid rising anti-Semitism and historical revisionism and vowed that Germany would not tolerate anti-Semitism.

December 7, 2019

‘The trouble with the Jews’ dropped from UK paper after apology

Opinion writer in the Independent states that he would condemn and combat anti-Semitism but uses an anti-Semitic trope that has now been removed by the paper.

December 5, 2019

WATCH: Corbyn denies party anti-Semitism, dismisses UK chief rabbi’s concerns

Jeremy Corbyn claimed that Labour does 'not accept anti-Semitism' and quickly implied that Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis' concerns are off-base.

December 3, 2019

French lawmakers: Israel hatred is a form of anti-Semitism

The resolution also calls on the government to join other European countries in formally adopting the working definition of anti-Semitism used by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.

December 3, 2019

In this May 7, 1933 file photo, German chancellor Adolf Hitler speaks to 30,000 uniformed Nazi storm troopers at Kiel, Germany.

Hitler ‘was defending European civilization’? Italian professor to face discipline for Nazi tweets

The university's rector issued a statement condemning the 'shameful' posts, stating that they 'offend the sensitivity of the entire University.'

December 3, 2019

Britain's main opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn

WATCH: Corbyn skips Jews in celebration of diversity campaign video

A video posted by U.K. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn on Twitter champions the cause of diversity of those who 'wear a hijab, a turban, a cross,' and are 'black, white, or Asian,' but Jews are neither seen nor mentioned.

December 3, 2019

Amazon drops Auschwitz-themed Christmas ornaments after protests

'The product description of the items listed them as 'the ideal city souvenir' and suggested buyers could 'give it to a friend on different occasions as a gift,' reported Sky News.

December 2, 2019

New study finds more than two-thirds of dedicated Corbyn supporters hold anti-Semitic views

The poll revealed that 84% of British Jews believe Jeremy Corbyn to be a threat to the Jewish community.

December 2, 2019

Members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews

Britain’s main Jewish group asks election candidates to commit to Palestinian state

A British Zionist group opposes the inclusion of support for a Palestinian State in the Board of Deputies’ manifesto, as does Israel’s Likud party.

December 2, 2019

McGill university student government seeks to oust Jewish representative for accepting Hillel-sponsored Israel trip

'They take issue not with the fact that I have other involvements, but that these other involvements are associated with a political view that they personally disagree with,' the Jewish student said.

December 2, 2019

Rabbi beaten in London by teenagers shouting ‘kill Jews,’ ‘f*** Jews’

The rabbi, who has not been named, was assaulted on Shabbat during a visit to the United Kingdom, and boarded a flight to Israel on Saturday night.

December 1, 2019

Jewish practice in Europe ‘severely under threat,’ prominent rabbi warns

Goldschmidt noted that protecting Jewish life in Europe was 'of the utmost importance within today’s political and social climate.'

December 1, 2019

‘Fake Aliyah’: 1,000s of Russians exploit Israeli system in passport-grab

A whole industry has cropped up to help people from countries of the former Soviet Union get Israeli citizenship within days.

December 1, 2019

Laurie Cordoza-Moore, president of Proclaiming Justice to the Nations, with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.

Christian Zionist group dropped by Amazon, claims it’s being targeted for pro-Israel views

Cardoza-Moore says that initially, she thought it was a joke that PJTN had been placed on the SPLC list of hate groups alongside the KKK.

November 27, 2019

ADL’s ability to fight anti-Semitism in question amid attacks in Brooklyn

Brooklyn alone experienced at least 93 incidents of anti-Semitic violence, harassment and vandalism in 2018.

November 24, 2019

WATCH: Anti-Semite berates Jewish family in London, Muslim woman intervenes

A Muslim woman on the London subway demanded that an anti-Semite stop harassing young children.

November 23, 2019

WATCH: Orthodox man beaten and stabbed in New York

An orthodox Jewish man remains in critical condition after being beaten and stabbed in an unprovoked attack on his way to morning prayers.

November 20, 2019

Hitler’s top hat and SS flag auctioned in Germany

Some of the items include a top hat worn by Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun's dresses, and an SS flag.

November 20, 2019

Anti-Semites beat elderly man in Berlin

76-Year-Old Berlin Pensioner Beaten Up in Broad Daylight by Antisemitic Assailant

November 20, 2019

This Sept. 27, 2012 file picture shows an exterior view of Adolf Hitler's birth house , front, in Braunau am Inn, Austria.

Austria to place police precinct in Hitler’s birthplace

It will 'send an unmistakable signal that this building will forever be removed from the commemoration of national socialism,' said the interior minister.

November 20, 2019

Opinion: Why do American Jews oppose an Israeli consensus on settlements?

Reaction to Trump’s latest decision once again proves that liberal Jewish groups see Israel in the context of American politics, not Middle Eastern reality.

November 20, 2019

Peter Fitzgerald from the FBI addresses questions about a series of racist messages and hate crimes that have occurred at Syracuse University in the last two weeks, during a news conference on Nov. 19, 2019.

White supremacist manifesto reportedly shared at Syracuse U

Officials said the manifesto appeared to be copied from one written by the man accused of killing 51 people at two mosques in New Zealand in March.

November 20, 2019

Members of the Satmar Hasidic Community from New York pray at the grave of Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum, the founder of the community, in the old Jewish cemetery of Satoraljaujhely, 256 kms northeast of Budapest, Hungary, July 15, 2015.

Anti-State of Israel rabbi visits Jewish State after hero’s farewell in New York

'He has a packed schedule in The Land of Israel until next Thursday, when he will return home,' said The Yeshiva World News.

November 19, 2019

A Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) protest against Israel in Melbourne, Australia. (Credit: Mohamed Ouda/Wikimedia Commons)

Toronto pro-BDS student union said to be refusing to make kosher food accessible

'Shamefully, the GSU has been permitted for years now to cultivate a hostile attitude toward Jewish graduate students at U of T,' says the B'nai Brith Canada CEO.

November 18, 2019

UK Prime Minister Johnson vows to expand efforts to confront Britain’s anti-Semitism problem

Johnson announced that former Labour MP Lord John Mann will be serving as his new independent anti-Semitism adviser.

November 18, 2019

Team Israel coach Gabe Kapler returns to San Francisco Giants

Just like Gabe Kapler’s playing days, he is swapping teams once again.

November 14, 2019

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., addresses supporters during an election rally, Nov. 8, 2019.

Sanders: Trump ‘helped inspire’ Pittsburgh synagogue attack

'We will confront this hatred, do exactly the opposite of what Trump is doing,' the presidential contender writes in a left-wing magazine.

November 12, 2019

Trump has good reason to address Israeli American Council summit in Florida

The significance for the president is said to center around the key role of Trump supporter, and financial magnate, Sheldon Adelson.

November 11, 2019

Omar tweet about Bloomberg sparks fresh anti-Semitism accusations

The embattled congresswoman faces new charges of anti-Semitism after tweeting about Leon Cooperman's support for presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg. Both men are Jewish.

November 10, 2019

Israeli president writes to persecuted Holocaust survivor in Italy: ‘Yet another terrible example of reality in Europe’

Senator for Life Liliana Segre had proposed to parliament to establish a commission to combat anti-Semitism and hate crimes.

November 10, 2019

Nikki Haley receives prestigious Zionist award: ‘Most courageous woman in America today’

The former American ambassador to the U.N. received recognition for her staunch defense of Israel in the international body.

November 10, 2019

British train union boss, Corbyn supporter, rails against Jewish activist in ‘anti-Semitic tirade’

Steve Hedley can be seen shouting at pro-Israel supporter Richard Millett in the re-emerged 2011 video.

November 10, 2019

Lapid: ‘Israel was established so we could tell anti-Semites to shove it’

Lapid said that 'anti-Semitism never acknowledges what it really is: xenophobia.'

November 10, 2019

GOP presidential challenger vows to be ‘more pro-Israel’ than Trump

'I don’t believe in the two-state solution. The two-state solution is a fallacy. It’s a pipe dream,' says former Illinois congressman Joe Walsh, who is throwing his hat into the 2020 presidential ring for the Republican Party.

November 9, 2019

Security agencies in India on alert for possible terrorist attacks on Jewish, Israeli targets

India is a popular destination for Israeli travelers, especially for young Israelis who have just finished their military service.

November 7, 2019

Auschwitz survivor, 89, unwittingly touches nerve in Italy over anti-Semitism

She unwittingly provoked one of the country’s most intense confrontations with anti-Semitism since the end of its Fascist dictatorship during World War II.

November 7, 2019

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