TRIESTE (JTA) — Police in the northeast Italian city of Trieste analyzed security videos to identify and arrest a man suspected of vandalizing the city’s synagogue twice in the past few months. The suspect was accused of breaking two windows “for the purposes of ethnic-religious hatred,” police said. A statement issued this week said careful […]

HAMBURG (JTA) — A Florida man who has presented himself as a child Holocaust survivor has withdrawn as a plaintiff in a trial against a former Nazi concentration camp guard. Moshe Peter Loth made headlines in November when he hugged defendant Bruno Dey during his trial in Hamburg, Germany. Loth has told journalists over the […]

EATONTOWN, NJ (JTA) – A New Jersey pizzeria has fired the manager accused of sending anti-Semitic text messages to a teenage employee after he asked to take off for a Jewish holiday. The family that owns Maurizio’s Pizzeria & Italian Ristorante in Eatontown, New Jersey, also has apologized to the teen who worked as a […]

MICHIGAN (JNS) — The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills, Mich., has announced its newest special exhibit, “Operation Finale: The Capture & Trial of Adolf Eichmann,” which runs Jan. 26 through mid-June. It reveals the secret history behind the capture, extradition and trial of one of the world’s most notorious escaped war […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Jewish congregations opting to deploy armed security personnel in the wake of deadly attacks on synagogues should — if possible — use uniformed law enforcement officers rather than private guards or volunteers from the community, a group of security experts recommended Wednesday. The advice came in a detailed, first-of-its-kind report compiled […]

SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) — An Australian woman has taken down the Nazi flag she was flying from her home following a joint effort by neighbors and local police, as well as a Jewish member of Parliament. Cheryl Lawdron told reporters that she had German ancestry and had the right to fly the flag featuring a […]

AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A box resembling a home-made bomb was left outside a Dutch kosher restaurant where several anti-Semitic attacks have occurred. The cardboard box, bearing the logo of the Heineken beer brand, was found Wednesday morning outside the HaCarmel restaurant in southern Amsterdam. It had masking tape fastening wires and a black electric trigger […]

PHNOM PENH (JTA) – Members of the Cambodian royal family gathered last month at the Raffles Hotel Le Royal in Phnom Penh for a celebration. There was music, traditional Cambodian dance performances and plenty of food. The occasion? The coming-of-age party of the granddaughter of one of the princesses. Well, a bat mitzvah to be […]

ALBANY (VINnews) – Assemblywoman Nilly Rozic (D-Queens) introduced and praised a delegation of Ezras Nashim in front of the entire New York State Assembly in the Assembly Chambers of the Capitol Building in Albany. Rozic passed a resolution recognizing the members for their volunteer efforts of preserving women’s dignity during emergencies. She said that Ezras […]

BERLIN (AP) — German police raided premises in four states early Tuesday on suspicion that a group of Chechens were scouting locations for a possible attack that may have included a synagogue, officials said. Berlin prosecutors said some 180 officers took part in the raids at nine sites in the German capital and the states […]