Warsaw – A U.S.-based Jewish foundation held an event in Warsaw on Sunday to honor Polish gentiles who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, a number that grows smaller each year, with U.S. and Israeli diplomats also paying their respects to the elderly Poles who put their lives in danger to save others. Those still living […]

Vilnius – Demonstrators in Lithuania’s capital city installed without a permit a plaque honoring a Nazi collaborator after the municipality had an earlier plaque dedicated to him removed. Nationalists on Thursday hastily mounted a plaque they had made for Jonas Noreika in Vilnius on an external wall of the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy […]

Jerusalem – An Israeli teenager was seriously injured on Saturday morning when he was attacked by a knife-wielding assailant during a visit with his father to a dentist near the Palestinian city of Qalqilya in Samaria. Liber Perez, 17, sustained multiple stab wounds to his upper body in the attack, while his father, Yosef Perez, […]

Warsaw – Israeli students spending a semester in Warsaw were attacked as they left a nightclub in the city. Two of the students required hospitalization after the early Saturday morning attack. The details of the attack were posted on Facebook by Barak Kashpizky, the twin brother of one of the injured Israelis. Yotam Kashpizky, who […]

Washington – The sentence came at the end of a list of White House talking points regarding the surprising departure of Jason Greenblatt, President Donald Trump’s former top Middle East peace negotiator: “Avi Berkowitz and Brian Hook will take on an increased role on the team.” For Middle East tea-leaf readers, Hook was the more […]

Montreal – A former cab driver was recently charged in Montreal for assaulting a Jewish man in a parking garage, according to the Montreal Gazette. Video footage of the altercation on July 28 shows a kipah-clad man taking a photo of a taxi driver, who then gets out of the car and punches the victim […]

Barcelona – “Free Palestine” was spray-painted on the front door of the largest synagogue in Barcelona. The vandalism took place Wednesday at the Synagogue of the Jewish Community of Barcelona, the El Nacional website reported Thursday. Police have no suspects. News of the incident at the main house of worship in the Spanish city prompted […]

Pittsburgh – Employees of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette donated to the Tree of Life synagogue the $15,000 they won for their Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of the deadly anti-Semitic shooting there. The newspaper won the prize in April for its “immersive, compassionate coverage” of the attack, the judges said, the paper wrote Wednesday. A gunman […]

Washington – An aide at the U.S. Department of Labor, Leif Olson, who resigned on Friday after a 2016 Facebook post that appeared to be anti-Semitic, was reported by Bloomberg has been reinstated. “Following a thorough reexamination of the available information and upon reflection, the Department has concluded that Mr. Olson has satisfactorily explained the […]

The week-long program included classes in Hebrew and Torah, lectures, Shabbat activities, singing and dancing. More than 250 Nigerian youth and 20 adults gathered in Onithsa from Aug. 18-25 for a national week-long Jewish leadership and learning seminar organized by the Jerusalem-based Shavei Israel organization, activist and educator Danny Limor, and the Nigerian Jewish Youth […]