Diaspora

British Jewish voters head to polls in fateful UK election

The Israeli-American Council says it’s giving the Israeli diaspora community a bipartisan voice

A recent poll found that “two in five British Jews have considered leaving the UK over antisemitism."

The JCVE founders proclaimed on its website, "we, the global community of good people everywhere, will not stand silent as the blood of our people flows along the Hudson River!"

Some of Liliana Segre’s escorts in the march on Tuesday evening carried a large banner reading “Hatred has no future,” The Associated Press reported.

“Warning – We have been alerted that there are numerous GoFundMe pages set up for Det. Joseph Seals most, if not all, are fake,” New Jersey State Police Benevolent Association said on Tuesday.

On December 10, two gunmen opened fire in the JC Kosher Supermarket and murdered store owner Leah Minda Ferencz, as well as Moshe Deutsch, Douglas Rodreiguz and police officer Joe Seals.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to fight antisemitism on US campuses at the White House Hanukkah reception.

On Tuesday, two gunmen drove into the small ultra-Orthodox community and opened fire at a kosher grocery store, killing Leah Ferencz and Moshe Deutsch.

One of the dead suspects in a shootout at a kosher market in Jersey City is David Anderson, who reportedly was once a member of the Black Hebrew Israelites. Here are some things to know.

EXCLUSIVE: Christoph Heusgen compared Israel to terrorist entity Hamas.

Many left-wing and liberal Jewish activists, commentators and organizations denounced the executive order for effectively defining Jews as a “race of nation.”

According to TPS, one of the largest support organizations for Corbyn – the “We support Jeremy Corbyn” Facebook page – is operated by Hamas supporters in the Gaza Strip and Britain.

Brigitte Herremans will receive the “ambassador for peace” prize from Belgian Catholic NGO Pax Christi Vlaanderen (Flanders).

The students claimed that antisemitic slurs were hurled at them by several Corbyn supporters, and attempts were made to take their placards.

"Today at the Cabinet meeting, we sent an important signal to our Jewish soldiers," Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer wrote on Twitter.

While Trump’s order has been in the works for months, its emergence coincides with two Hanukkah receptions at the White House on Wednesday, which gather Republican supporters of his Israel policy.

A grandchild of Holocaust survivors, Fulop grew up working in his father's deli after school. After 9/11, he quit his job at Goldman Sachs to serve in the Marines.

It was an ordeal that disturbed the heart of a small Orthodox Jewish community of nearly 100 families, most of whom moved from the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn over the past few years.

The man — identified as Justin Pichizaca, 20, of Queens — twice made a move toward Fri to hit him and said “Record all you want because a Nazi is going to f***ing kill you.”

“The new SNAP rules announced yesterday by the Federal government will devastate low-income New Yorkers by denying them critical food benefits they rely on to feed their families."

Title VI prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color or and national origin in programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance.

"A lot of shots were fired," he stressed. "And then we started seeing swat teams, and crazy armored vehicles and officers showing up and knew it was serious."

Recent efforts to advance the cause of restitution for Jewish property confiscated In the late 1940s and early 1950s have heightened tensions over the issue.

On Tuesday, two gunmen drove into the small ultra-Orthodox community and opened fire at a kosher grocery store, killing Leah Minda Ferencz and Moshe Deutsch.

Rabbi Ephraim Padwa’s family say letter seemed ‘very suspicious’ and cast doubt the leader wrote it.

"We will continue to explain to our partners that we should work together to end Iranian support for terrorism," US ambassador Richard Grenell said.

A passerby called an ambulance that transferred him to the hospital, while the two assailant individuals fled the scene.

The media outlet used term "Israel lobbyists" to describe its critics.

In 1475, a two-year-old boy, Simonino, disappeared in the Italian city of Trento, marking the beginning of one of the most infamous cases of blood libel against Jews in history.

"Our enduring friendship with Israel remains. We will continue to stand strongly against the singling out of Israel at the UN," Trudeau said at a menorah lighting ceremony at Parliament.

Two correctional academy trainers and a cadet from the class shown in the picture were fired, The Washington Post reported.

No speaker directly mentioned Corbyn or his party, which has been accused of institutional antisemitism. Corbyn has been dogged by criticism over antisemitism in Labour since his election as leader.

The 105-year-old organization provides aid and services to Jewish populations in need across the globe, and took an active role aiding Holocaust survivors, Soviet Jewry, and Ethiopian Jews.

“Uncut Gems” is the sixth film by Josh and Benny Safdie, a pair of thirtysomething Jewish brothers who have earned serious acclaim for their gritty indie works that probe the New York City underworld

“You have people that are Jewish people that are great people, they don’t love Israel enough,” Trump said Saturday.

Swastikas and the word “n***r” were among some of the racist graffiti found at the center in the last two weeks.

Called the Antisemitism Accountability Project, or A.S.A.P., the project's mission, as described by WJC president, is targeting politicians at any level who engage in antisemitic discourse.

“As a Jew in Europe you get used to much of this stuff happening that you brush a lot of it aside because... you know the cost of complaining,” Annika Hernroth-Rothstein said.

Jusos urged Germany to "dissociate from the initiatives and alliances of antisemitic member states in the bodies and specialized agencies of the United Nations.

Barry Garinder said it was "important" that there be "clarity" with regards to the Labour Party's history with antisemtism.

A Twitter account bearing the shooter's name tweeted shortly before the shooting calling the US "evil" for supporting Israel.

The "We Support Jeremy Corbyn" Facebook page, which has 72,000 members, was run from the Gaza strip from 2017 until recently.

In 1997, ‘Charging Bull’ sculptor Arturo Di Modica created the menorah and it was used that year for Hanukkah.

“If Corbyn gets beaten, who will be blamed? The Jews,” Simon Cobbs of Sussex Friends of Israel told The Jerusalem Post.

"The party has systematically ignored or downplayed the scale of the challenge it faces," says Jewish Labour Movement.

Abdallah Chatila, who bought €600,000 worth of Nazi-era items to stop them falling into the hands of neo-Nazis and Nazi sympathizers who would use them to glorify Hitler and his genocidal regime.

US President Donald Trump stood on stage for the whole performance. At the end, a member of the band embraced the president. Another told the president, "I love you so much."

The Butcher of Paris is a true story of someone even the Nazis found bad, and a warning about the dangers of silence as antisemitism becomes more common worldwide.

However, there’s a forgotten piece of that story, one that even few local Mauritians, people who live on the very island in which the story took place, know.

"The Jews are always coming up with this stuff."

These elections are particularly crucial to Jews.

This year, there were victims of violence and old age, survivors who made it through the Holocaust to tell their fateful stories, and others who revolutionized their fields.

Among the featured guests were the Israel's Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau, Israeli ambassador Galit Ronen and the director of DAIA (Argentina´s Jewish political umbrella) Jorge Knoblovitz.

“Those who cooperate, work, conspire with the Jews, Allah, take them without delay. Shake their bases and topple their buildings, Allah."

“The reason I wouldn’t call myself a white nationalist — it’s not because I don’t see the necessity for white people to have a homeland and for white people to have a country.”

88 groups signed a letter calling on Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to prevent taxpayers money from supporting Middle East studies programs that support academic boycotts of Israel.

The art-activist collective placed a large container of soil samples containing human remains near the German parliament.

Family has come under fire for their central role in American opioid crisis

Labour's antisemitism problem is of concern, but so is a Britain outside of the European Union.

"Those who attack them, even their graves, are not worthy of the idea we have of France."

There is also a witness police are trying to find, as her testimony will greatly aid their investigation.

The government is "determined to deny safe haven in Canada to war criminals and persons believed to have committed or been complicit in war crimes, crimes against humanity, or genocide."

More than 3 million of Poland's 3.2 million Jews were killed by the Nazis, accounting for about half of the Jews killed in the Holocaust.

Dominique Petithory Lanzmann had sought to have her son’s sperm transferred to a fertility clinic in Israel in order to fulfill his final wish to have a child.

Deportations of Jews from Polish town to Hrubieszów began on December 1, 1939.

The fund will be run professionally by experienced venture capitalists but administered by students of Yeshiva University's Sy Syms School of Business Honors program.

The daughter of an Eritrean Jew, Haddish found out relatively late in life that she was Jewish but has embraced these Jewish roots in recent years.

A submission by the Jewish Labour Movement to an official investigation into institutional antisemitism within Labour has called the state of the party "dangerous."

Jewish student groups: adoption of definition is an important first step in helping the university tackle anti-Jewish racism

However, 46% said they would not support a boycott of Israeli products, while a similar number said that hating Israel is antisemitism.

The recent controversy over a Holocaust costume is just the latest example where governing officials and skaters fail to understand history

Brooklyn, notably in Crown Heights, has seen a rash of attacks against identifiable Jews in recent months.

Zizek himself made a statement in his article in The Independent published Tuesday that is being attacked as anti-Semitic.

Opponents of the resolution said it conflated anti-Semitism with criticism of Israel.

The resolutions have been postponed over what the student government said were errors in the documents.

The site itself does not create the art, and doesn’t claim responsibility for the images printed on their clothes and accessories.

Elzbieta Ficowska is one of 15 Jewish child survivors being featured in the ‘My Jewish Parents, My Polish Parents’

More than 100 tombstones were desecrated with antisemitic text and swastikas at a Jewish cemetery in eastern France.

Dominic Pacyga’s work is an invaluable history of Chicago Polonia

Columbus State Community College in Ohio confirmed the incident on Twitter and said that "an investigation is underway."

The attack occurred last month on a bus in Stamford Hill, London.

Rabbi Daniel Greer, 79, the founding rabbi of the Yeshiva of New Haven, was sentenced on Monday. He is appealing the verdict.

Speaking Friday at the annual conference of American Muslims for Palestine in Chicago, Sarsour had criticized progressive Zionists.

This decision ‘comes amidst a continuing rise in antisemitism, including acts of violence, in France,’ said the AJC

This decision "comes amidst a continuing rise in antisemitism, including acts of violence, in France," said the AJC.

Defining the ‘3D test’ of demonization, delegitimization and double standards.

Israeli-American Council founder: We are one people and depend on each other

Students' Society of McGill University members also pen letter of concern over the handling of society member’s travel on a free trip to Israel.