Vienna

Classicameri Festival : Music to be savored and enjoyed

Once again, the Classicameri Festival provided value for money and left audiences buzzing and with a spring in their step. 

Sergei Nakariakov.
A police officer stands guard in front of Vienna Central Station, after it was closed due to an unspecified threat, according to the Austrian capital's police and national rail company OBB, in Vienna, Austria, March 3, 2025

Vienna police rule out antisemitic motive after grenade found near police station, synagogues

Travelers at Ben-Gurion Airport, October 23, 2025.

Teenager detained after attempting to board US flight without a ticket at Ben-Gurion Airport

Ex-Syrian Brigadier General Khaled al-Halabi.

Syrian general linked to Mossad indicted for torture in Austria - report


The Rabbi and the Community – contemporary challenges - Opinion

What are the challenges that a rabbi facestoday?

 Rabbi Jaron Engelmayer

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.

 The monument of Karl Lueger in downtown Vienna

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.

 Protestors stand outside Hofburg Palace as a Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) takes place in Vienna, Austria, February 23, 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."

 Two trains of the national rail company OeBB are seen during a warning strike in a railway station in Vienna, Austria November 26, 2018.

Speech by Hitler, Nazi chants blasted on Austrian train speakers

For unknown reasons, parts of a speech by Hitler and Nazi chants were blasted over the speaker, on a train carrying an Austrian Rabbi, among others.

 Two trains of the national rail company OeBB are seen during a warning strike in a railway station in Vienna, Austria November 26, 2018.

Adolf Hitler’s country of birth salutes Karl Lueger, a mayor with a checkered past

Ode to an antisemite: Preserving a towering tribute to one of Hitler’s sources of inspiration

 The monument of Karl Lueger in downtown Vienna

Closing a Circle - Rabbi Pinto to the Bank Manager: We Danced in Honor of Your Father


Police deploy to sensitive sites in Vienna, warning of Islamist attack

"Our intelligence services have reason to believe that an assault with an Islamist motive is planned to be carried out in Vienna," Vienna police said in English on Twitter.

A police car passes the Palais Coburg, where closed-door nuclear talks with Iran will take place, in Vienna, Austria, March 11, 2022.

How it really was: Why did we create Israel? A reminder

We may have lost sight of why we created the State of Israel. This memoir should serve as a timely reminder.

 The Ostbahnhof (Eastern Railway Station) in Vienna, built between 1867 and 1870, was replaced by a new Südbahnhof in 1955, which in turn was demolished in 2009 and replaced by the Hauptbahnhof (Main Railway Station). Painting based on a photograph by Ellen Harvey: ‘The Disappointed Tourist.’

Vienna's many faces, from cultural hub to antisemitism promoter - review

The author obviously loves Vienna, but he has not allowed his passion for the city to blind him to so many of its residents’ history of hatred and persecution of the Jewish people.

 THE SHOAH Wall of Names Memorial in Vienna in 2021, bearing the names of more than 64,000 Austrian Jews killed in the Holocaust.