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The Louvre in Paris. Photo: Annabel Sinclair
May 6, 2026, 5:01 pm
Tracing Jewish Paris, from Herzl to the Holocaust
An LSJS educational trip explored the French capital through synagogues, museums, Holocaust memory and modern Jewish life
By Annabel Sinclair
European rabbis gather in Germany, with the famous Brandenburg Gate in the background.. Source: the Conference of European Rabbis Facebook page
May 29, 2019, 9:57 am
European rabbis call for emojis to depict Jews: ‘we have been forgotten’
Letter sent to the Unicode Consortium by the Conference of European Rabbis calls for graphics which show men with a kippah and women in head-coverings
By JTA
Rabbi Yanki Jacobs
June 18, 2018, 3:51 pm
Attacker cries ‘cancer Jews’ at Dutch chief rabbi’s son and family
Rabbi Yanki Jacobs, son of the Jewish leader in the Netherlands, was verbally accosted in Amsterdam over the weekend
By JTA
Frans Timmermans (front row, third from right) speaking at the Great Synagogue in Brussels, alongside European Jewish leaders
May 24, 2018, 4:10 pm
EU leader tells Europe’s Jews: ‘I will always be there for you’
First VP of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans, stands by continents community while being awarded the Lord Jakobovits Prize for European Jewry
Philippe De Backer
April 3, 2018, 11:54 am
Belgian secretary of state: No doubt Jerusalem is Israel’s capital
Philippe de Backer says the holy city should be seen as the Jewish state's capital in interview published this week
By JTA
Johan Willem van Hulst
March 27, 2018, 4:30 pm
Dutch politician who saved hundreds of children during Holocaust, dies aged 107
Tributes paid to seminary leader and ex-senator Johan van Hulst, who helped smuggle Jewish children to safety in the war
By JTA
Simon Schama in BBC doc The Story of the Jews
February 7, 2018, 12:59 pm
Simon Schama backs calls to protect Europe’s oldest and vulnerable synagogues
Renowned historian urges MPs to help safeguard more than 3,300 shuls across the continent, including two on British soil
By Jewish News Reporter
Charlotte Knobloch
January 1, 2018, 2:55 pm
Jewish life in Germany ‘in danger’ according to community leader
Charlotte Knobloch says due to anti-Semitism, police protection and major security precautions have become the norm
By JTA
A screenshot of the video in which an effigy of an Orthodox Jew was burnt in Poland by Piotr Rybak
May 12, 2017, 4:35 pm
Some 10 percent of Eastern Europeans don’t want Jews as citizens, study finds
Pew study shows extent of hostilities towards Jews in 18 European countries
By JTA
An old Jewish headstone in a cemetery
October 30, 2016, 7:34 am
Hamburg’s Reform community dedicates first cemetery
The German community inaugurated a section of Ohlsdorf cemetery for the Reform movement in the city
By JTA
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