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Vienna, Austria. People commemorate victims at Shoah Wall of Names Memorial in Vienna, Austria, on Nov. 9, 2021. Shoah Wall of Names Memorial was inaugurated at Ostarrichi Park in Vienna on Tuesday. The new memorial commemorates more than 64,000 Jews from Austria who were murdered or perished during the Nazi era. Credit: Guo Chen/Xinhua/Alamy Live News

November 11, 2021, 3:26 pm

Wall of Names: 64,000 Shoah victims engraved at memorial inaugurated in Vienna

Austrian and Jewish leaders opened a monument honouring Jews murdered by the Nazis, after five-volume academic study on the history of antisemitism presented

By Stephen Oryszczuk

Screenshot from the Kantor Centre's report

April 20, 2020, 3:21 pm

Antisemitism study reports ‘sharp rise’ in violent attacks during 2019

Moshe Kantor of the European Jewish Congress said 'there has been a significant rise in accusations that Jews are behind the spread of the virus or are directly profiting from it'

By Jewish News Reporter

Sarah Halimi (Courtesy of the Confédération des Juifs de France et des amis d'Israël)

December 20, 2019, 1:24 pm

Paris court: Killer of Jewish woman not responsible for actions due to marijuana

Communal anger after court relieved Kobili Traore, 29, of criminal responsibility for his slaying of Sarah Halimi

By JTA

The debating chamber of the French National Assembly in Paris

December 4, 2019, 10:24 am

‘Historic day’ as French Parliament votes to adopt new antisemitism definition

Lower House of National Assembly votes 154 to 72 to adopt International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition

By Jewish News Reporter

Thousands of Polish nationalists marched to the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw in May 2019, protesting that the U.S. is putting pressure on Poland to compensate Jews whose families lost property during the Holocaust.
(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

May 22, 2019, 3:33 pm

Jewish News wins decisive legal case against Polish nationalists

Newspaper victorious after bitter 18-month fight with the Polish League Against Defamation that threatened to silence allegations of historical antisemitism in the country.

By Adam Decker

September 20, 2018, 10:28 am

Hungary’s Holocaust museum triggers conflict between Jewish groups

By Cnaan Liphshiz (JTA)

European Jewish leaders present the new memorial at the Terezin camp

Photo credit: Ondrej Besperat

June 4, 2018, 3:23 pm

New monument unveiled in memory of those killed at Terezin

European Jewish figures inaugurate memorial at fortress site in Czech Republic which Nazi Germany sent more than 150,000 Jews to

By Jewish News Reporter

April 26, 2018, 10:03 pm

Brussels Uni urged by Belgian PM and Jewish groups to revoke Ken Loach honour

Prime minister Charles Michel joins European community leaders in urging 'no accommodation with anti-Semitism' and a snub of the left-wing filmmaker

March 7, 2018, 11:27 am

Million pound prize offered by Jewish leader to tackle extremism

Kantor Prize for Secure Tolerance will reward those who promote tolerance and combat “isolationism and nationalism”

By JTA

February 22, 2018, 4:47 pm

Austrian Jewish students disrupt minister’s speech calling government ‘not kosher’

Young people unfurled a banner criticising far-right People's Party leader Sebastian Kurz during an address by Education Minister Heinz Fassmann

By JTA

January 17, 2018, 10:02 am

Second lawsuit lodged against Belgium’s ban on non-stunned meat

Jewish group says their religious freedoms are being 'trampled on' as they submit new legal action against the Parliament in Flanders

By Jewish News Reporter

L-R: EJC President Dr. Moshe Kantor, French President Emmanuel Macron amd CRIF President Francis Kalifat at the Élysée Palace.

Photographer: Erez Lichtfeld

November 21, 2017, 11:58 am

European Jewish leaders tell Macron they’ll have ‘no interaction with the far-right’

French president told by leaders that 'strong and unequivocal red lines' must be drawn when it comes to dealing with promoters of 'intolerance and racism'

By Jewish News Reporter

October 16, 2017, 11:59 am

Far-right party earns second highest vote in Austrian election

Jewish groups call for the government to exclude the 'xenophobic' Freedom Party from the ruling coalition

By JTA

September 25, 2017, 9:33 am

German election: Jewish leaders congratulate Angela Merkel victory and decry far-right gains

Chancellor called 'a true friend of Israel and Jews' as she wins fourth term, whilst there's concern over the AfD party who take 13.1 percent of the vote

By Toby Axelrod (JTA)

September 12, 2017, 12:11 pm

French minister condemns anti-Semitic attack on Jewish leader’s home

Gerard Collomb expresses 'indignation' after Sephardi leader Roger Pinto's wife and son beaten up when his house was broken into

By JTA

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