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Susan Hall in 2018. Credit: London Assembly via Wikimedia Commons.

UK Conservative Party candidate says London mayor ‘frightens’ Jews

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Susan Hall, a Conservative Party candidate in the United Kingdom running to be mayor of London, has drawn criticism after saying that the city’s Muslim mayor scares British Jews. “I know how frightened some of the community...
Baku at night. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Rabbinical confab in Azerbaijan sparks debate

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A conference of European rabbis that will be held in Azerbaijan next month has sparked a divisive debate among European Jewish student groups and Azerbaijani Jewish leadership over the venue due to the recent...
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) in 2017 signing the guestbook at Yad Vashem as her husband, Doug Emhoff, looks on. Credit: Office of California Sen. Kamala Harris.

Second Gentleman Emhoff to lead Holocaust remembrance efforts in Europe

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The White House announced on Thursday that Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff will travel to Europe this month to participate in Holocaust remembrance events. Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, is set to visit...
Flags of European Union member nations near Europa Square in Vilnius, Lithuania. Credit: Šarūnas Burdulis via Wikimedia Commons.

Conference of European Rabbis signs religious services agreement with Lithuania’s Jewish community

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The Conference of European Rabbis and the Jewish community of Lithuania signed an agreement stipulating that the Orthodox rabbinical alliance will be consulted regarding all communal and religious matters in the country. “The Conference of...
Steven Skybell on stage as Tevye in the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene production. Photo by Lev Radin.

Is Tevye returning to Europe? Yiddish ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ hopes to head to...

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The star of the Yiddish-language “Fiddler on the Roof” production thought it would be no more than a summer curiosity. But after a two-year hiatus induced by the coronavirus pandemic, the award-winning play is...
Flags with European Parliament in background Strasbourg, France. Credit: Hadrian/Shutterstock.

Nine European states reject Israeli designation of Palestinian organizations as terror entities

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Nine European governments rejected on Tuesday an Israeli decision to class six Palestinian organizations as terrorist entities. The foreign ministries of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden said in a...
View of the Israeli Leviathan gas-processing rig near the Israeli city of Caesarea on Jan. 31, 2019. Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/POOL.

Israel ups fuel exports to Europe to help lessen dependence on Russia

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Israel is increasing its offshore natural-gas output as part of an effort to reach a deal with Europe in order to supply it with alternatives to Russian energy. Jerusalem seeks to double production to 40...
Map of Western Europe. Credit: Shutterstock.

European attitudes towards defense undergo sea change in wake of Ukraine war

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The defense awakening across Europe in response to the invasion of Ukraine is most dramatic among Western European countries, which had resisted the previous U.S. administration’s appeals to increase their defense budgets. In a...
Swastikas graffitied on a Jewish cemetery in Quatzenheim near Strasbourg, France. Credit: Hadrian/Shutterstock.

Hebrew University survey: More than half of Israeli Jews, Arabs expect European anti-Semitism to...

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Timed to International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s European Forum reveals a new survey that says Israelis expect anti-Semitism in Europe to worsen. As for the future of Israeli-European relations, sociologist and...
An Orthodox Jewish man outside a synagogue in the Jewish Quarter in Antwerp, Belgium, on Dec. 9, 2014. Photo by Johanna Geron/Flash90.

Europe’s Jews have an uncertain future, but a future nonetheless

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The continent of Europe ceased to be the center of Jewish life more than a century ago, when it yielded that status to the increasingly affluent, influential Jewish community in the United States, joined,...