BERLIN (JTA) — A child survivor of the Holocaust interrupted the trial of a former Nazi concentration camp guard to give the 93-year-old defendant a hug. Bruno Dey is charged as an accessory in the murders of 5,230 people at the Stutthof concentration camp near what is today Gdansk, Poland. He is standing trial in […]

SACRAMENTO (JTA) — California Democrats voted down an amendment to their party platform that called for the right of return for Palestinians and eliminated references to the two-state solution. The amendment presented Sunday at the state party’s fall convention also advocated for the return of the descendants of Jewish refugees in Israel to the countries […]

MK Yulia Malinovsky, a member of Avigdor Liberman’s secularist Yisrael Beitenu party, sharply criticized police and municipal officials for closing roads in Jerusalem in honor of the visit of the Williamsburg Satmar Rebbe to Israel. Police announced that during the visit which begins on Tuesday, certain major Jerusalem arteries would  be closed.  A huge event […]

ILLINTSI (JTA) — A former synagogue in Ukraine built in the 18th century was destroyed in a fire. The Great Synagogue in Illintsi, in southwest Ukraine, has been used since the Holocaust as a furniture factory and carpentry workshop, the Jewish Heritage Europe website reported. The source of the fire was not reported. The blaze […]

TORONTO (JTA) — A University Toronto student union refused to support a campaign by the school’s Hillel to make kosher food available on campus since it is “pro-Israel.” The Graduate Student Union told a Jewish student representing Hillel in requesting support for its “Kosher Forward” campaign in an email that supporting the kosher food campaign […]

WILLIAMSBURG (VINnews) — As the Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg was preparing to leave on a trip to Israel, thousands of his followers were preparing to see him off. Traffic was heavy on Sunday, as many streets off Bedford Ave were blocked off, as well as the parking spots normally used on those blocks. A stage […]

BROOKLAWN, NJ (JTA) – A New Jersey man, 18, was arrested and held without bond for allegedly ordering the vandalism of two synagogues in other states. Richard Tobin is accused of using a neo-Nazi social network called The Base to find volunteers to for the September graffiti attacks on synagogues in Michigan and Wisconsin, the […]

WARSAW, POLAND (JTA) – The day after he turned 100, Jozef Walaszczyk prepared to attend yet another Holocaust commemoration ceremony in his native Warsaw. Walaszczyk is Poland’s oldest living Righteous Among the Nations – a title given by Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust museum to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Last April, a complaint was filed by Adela Cojab,a 22-year-old senior at NYU, about anti-Semitism on campus. Her complaint mainly centered around a group called Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), an on-campus pro-Palestinian group. According to the complaint, Adela alleges that SJP has created a “hostile atmosphere” for Jewish students, […]