Trump administration wants resolution to Kotel crisis, us official says
The Trump administration is engaging with the Israeli government and American Jewish community leaders in order to encourage resolution to a growing crisis over the state of prayer at the Western Wall, an administration...
Shalom Organisation of the Jews in Bulgaria condemns attack on Muslim leader’s family in...
Bulgarian Jewish organisations, in a statement on June 28, condemned the previous day’s assault on the wife and two daughters of Birali Birali, Deputy Chief Mufti of Bulgaria and one of the leaders of...
In official statement, Chicago LGBT group calls Zionism a ‘’white-supremacist ideology’”
Organizers of the Chicago Dyke March on Tuesday defended their decision to eject three participants who displayed Jewish symbols by claiming that “Zionism is an inherently white-supremacist ideology.”
The group’s official statement also included screenshots of a chat between an organizer...
Jews and Muslims complain over reference to Holocaust in BBC online article
The BBC has removed a line from an online story on its news website which had caused offence to both Muslims and Jews.
Earlier today, the Board of Deputies issued a joint statement together with Fiyaz Mughal,...
Benjamin Allouche Chevalier de l’Ordre national du mérite
Benjamin Allouche, Président de la Communauté juive de Massy, Président du CCJ 91, Délégué du Crif dans l'Essonne, a reçu hier les insignes de Chevalier de l'Ordre national du mérite de la préfète Josiane...
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier accuses social media of spreading anti-Semitism
Steinmeier told the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper Wednesday that in addition to centuries-long anti-Semitism in Germany, anti-Jewish sentiment existed among some newly arrived Muslim migrants - and that all of it was being stoked by hate tirades...
A new study confirms evidence of Jewish ancestry among India’s Bene Israel
Of India’s three principal Jewish communities, the Bene Israel—who historically lived in the northwestern part of the country—have the most obscure origins. It was not until 1964 that the Israeli Chief Rabbinate accepted their...
Jews, Arabs in Israel get help to learn each other’s traditions
Although Jews and Arabs live together in Israel, they are largely estranged from each other and unaware of each others' customs and traditions.
But the Association for the Advancement of Civic Equity in Israel, better...
Jewish leaders rethink ties with Netanyahu, Israeli government
The Jewish Agency, the world's largest Jewish nonprofit group, will reevaluate its relationship with the Israeli government after two decisions that have sparked outrage in the Jewish world, according to the organization's new chairman of...
Israel’s prime minister is keeping gender segregation at Judaism’s holiest site
At the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Judaism’s holiest site, women and men pray in sharply divided separate sections. There is no intermingling. That separation has long rankled progressive Jews in Israel and around the...