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Limmud FSU participants
January 10, 2022, 2:12 pm
Limmud FSU Israel event ‘builds robust dialogue’
Three-day get-together at Kibbutz Shefayim welcomed 700 participants and volunteers for a programme of more than 130 sessions for adults, plus others for children.
Gorlitz Synagoge Torah Shrine
January 10, 2022, 2:09 pm
Görlitz Torah portions returned in Germany
Protestant minister Uwe Mader, 79, handed in the pages to authorities in Görlitz, months after the city’s shul was reopened from refurbishment
January 10, 2022, 2:05 pm
Exhibition on ‘I love NY’ logo creator Milton Glaser
Late Jewish professor and graphic designer celebrated in New York
By Jewish News Reporter
December 22, 2021, 12:28 pm
Singapore welcomes first Jewish Museum
Permanent exhibits opened in the Jacob Ballas Centre, which sits beside the pink Maghain Aboth Synagogue, completed in 1878.
December 22, 2021, 12:25 pm
Pennsylvania allocates £5.8m for Pittsburgh shul repair fund
Site of the deadliest antisemitic attack on American soil, the synagogue building itself was badly damaged by the shooting.
December 22, 2021, 12:25 pm
2,000 flock to Israel summit in Florida
With 119 speakers and an audience of around 2,000, the Israeli American Council event gathered thought leaders and influencers
Women and children carry Torah scrolls from an old synagogue building to a new building in Nabagoye, Uganda. (Courtesy of Be’chol Lashon) Via JTA
December 21, 2021, 12:56 pm
Israel rejects Ugandan Jew’s application for citizenship despite conversions ruling
Ministry of Interior denied application from converts to Judaism even after a new rule allowing non-Orthodox conversions
By JTA
A Jewish family in Thessaloniki in 1917. (Elias Petropoulos/Wikimedia Commons)
December 21, 2021, 12:45 pm
Greek-Jewish archives return home 80 years after they were looted by the Nazis
Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece announced Russia agreed to return the items to their place origin, after a diplomatic process supported by Greek PM
By JTA
Lit candles at a prayer service at the Moscow Jewish Community Centre for the victims of the 27 October 2018 shooting attack on a synagogue in Pittsburgh, United States. Mikhail Tereshchenko/TASS
December 4, 2021, 5:03 pm
Russian summit held on antisemitism
Russian Jewish Congress hosts three-day annual Moscow International Conference
December 4, 2021, 5:01 pm
Half of all Germans have not met a Jew
Poll commissioned to mark 1,700 years of the Jewish presence in Germany, revealed that 46 percent of respondents – all adults – had never met a Jew
December 4, 2021, 4:48 pm
Refuseniks remembered in LA
“The Soviet Jewish movement was one of the great causes of modern Jewish history and one of the greatest successes,” said Ed Robin. 'It has radically changed Jewish life everywhere'
Katharina von Schnurbein
December 4, 2021, 4:47 pm
Rabbis honour European envoy
Rabbi Moshe Rosen Prize given to the EU Commission's Katherina von Schnurbein
December 4, 2021, 4:45 pm
Belgrade Jewish cemetery attacked
An axe was found on the floor beside shattered glass in an incident raised with Serbian Minister of Internal Affairs Aleksandar Vulin.
December 4, 2021, 4:45 pm
German war cemetery gets plaque
Dutch Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs described his “heavy feeling” after visiting the cemetery at Ysselsteyn
A Holocaust survivor displaying his arm tattoo
November 21, 2021, 6:42 pm
Tattooing tool sale criticised
'Yad Vashem opposes the existence of a market for Jewish or Nazi objects from the time of the Holocaust and therefore does not purchase such items'
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