LONDON (JNS) — Authorities are investigating the desecration of a 300-year-old Jewish cemetery near London, reported the United Kingdom’s Jewish Chronicle. Assailants reportedly used sledgehammers to shatter, upend and split headstones at the Chatham Memorial Synagogue cemetery. The damage was discovered hours before Yom Kippur started on Oct. 8, though it is believed that the […]

CZECH REPUBLIC (JNS) The lower chamber of the Czech Republic’s parliament passed a non-binding resolution on Tuesday condemning the anti-Israel BDS movement. The final tally was 120-20. The Chamber of Deputies resolution denounces “all manifestations of anti-Semitism directed against individuals, religious institutions and organizations, as well as the State of Israel, including the denial of […]

VICTORIA (JTA) — A teenage boy in Victoria, Australia that allegedly sent threatening messages to a Jewish boy who had been forced to kiss the shoe of a Muslim student and to his mother has been charged for the threats. The boy, 16, was arrested by Victoria police and charged with stalking, harassing and threatening […]

MICHIGAN (JNS) — The sukkah at the Hillel at Michigan State University was destroyed by two males on Saturday, according to surveillance footage. In a Facebook post, MSU Hillel said that the two men appeared to be “extremely inebriated.” MSU Hillel executive director Cindy Hughey noticed the damage on Monday morning when she stopped at […]

HIGHLAND PARK (JTA) — A public reading and talk at a New Jersey library by the author of the children’s book “P is for Palestine” went forward amid protests outside after being postponed in May due to objections from the local Jewish community. Four adults and three children attended the event Sunday at the Highland […]

NEW YORK (VosIzNeias) — A survey conducted by the American Jewish Committee(AJC)  to mark the anniversary of the shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue that killed 11 people last year has revealed that nearly a third of Jewish Americans avoid wearing things that may reveal their religious identity. The AJC released the results of […]

PITTSBURGH (JNS) — Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf signed a proclamation declaring Oct. 27 as an official day of remembrance, ordering state flags to half-staff one year after the attack at the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh, where 11 Jewish worshippers were shot and killed during Shabbat-morning services by lone gunman. “A year has […]

NEW YORK (JTA) — A wall of a former historic synagogue on the Lower East Side of Manhattan collapsed, killing a construction worker and injuring another. The 167-year-old Beth Hamedrash Hagadol building had been seriously damaged in a fire, blamed on arson, in 2017. It was being transformed into a mixed-use building in a development […]

AURORA (JTA) — A Jewish community and activism center in Budapest sustained minor damage in what its operators said was arson by neo-Nazis. The Aurora community center in the capital city’s downtown was empty during the attempt to torch it on Wednesday, according to Adam Schonberger, director of the Marom, a Jewish association that runs […]

BNEI BRAK (VosIzNeias) — Rabbi Nissim Karelitz, the nephew of the Chazon Ish who founded an internationally renowned Beis Din and was known as one of the leading Poskim of our generation, passed away Monday night aged 93. Tens of thousands of people attended the funeral of Rabbi  Karelitz. The funeral procession left at 12:00 […]