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Taylor Swift Vienna concerts canceled due to planned attack, organizer says

Taylor Swift's Vienna shows are canceled after a terror plot was uncovered. All tickets will be refunded.

By REUTERS
07/08/2024

Schnitzler's 'La Ronde' is a work of beautiful decadence

Directed by Rakefet Binyamin, Schnitzler’s most performed work now gets a new life at Beit Zvi.

Blinken and Herzl: Tough choices in Vienna 130 years apart

2024, another Shabbat in Munich, another arrival; and again, the Jewish nation was asked to make a “tough choice.”

24/02/2024

Holocaust memorial stones splattered with paint in Vienna

The Vienna Police said on social media to the Austrian Union of Jewish Students that the appropriate authorities had been notified of the incident.

Russia allegedly considering withdrawal from Interpol

Despite continuing contributions to the Interpol budget, the nation would lose its fundamental right as a member country.

Fragments of Beethoven’s skull returned to Austrian university

In 1863, Kaufmann’s great uncle, Franz Romeo Seligmann, had been a Viennese physician, medical historian and anthropologist who was among those involved in the 863 reburial of Beethoven's body.

The Rabbi and the Community – contemporary challenges - Opinion

What are the challenges that a rabbi facestoday?

By RABBI JARON ENGELMAYER
06/07/2023

Vienna to tilt statue of antisemitic mayor 3.5 degrees to the right to shift ‘perspective’

Karl Lueger served as mayor of Vienna for 13 years until his death in 1910. He was known for antisemitic rhetoric that is said to have inspired Adolf Hitler.

By GABE FRIEDMAN/JTA
07/06/2023

Ukrainian Jewish refugees choose to stay in Vienna with aid from Jewish community

The aid that the Jewish community offers the refugees includes housing aid, psychosocial care, food vouchers, Shabbat meals and other forms of social welfare.

22/05/2023

Austrian police charge 2 men after Hitler speech plays on public train's loudspeakers

Vienna’s chief rabbi was on the train and said that the recording started with “strange music, snippets of conversation and laughter which suddenly turned into a Hitler speech."

By GABE FRIEDMAN/JTA
19/05/2023
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