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Free University of Brussels's encampment was cleared on Tuesday, the same day as an alleged attack on a Jewish woman walking past the encampment with her dogs.

Jewish groups urge Wikimedia Foundation to reverse editors' decision labeling Anti-Defamation League unreliable on Israel, sparking debate on Wikipedia's editorial autonomy and bias allegations.

  The annual solidarity and recognition event of Birthright Israel was held yesterday at Mini Israel, symbolizing Jewish unity during wartime. Over 2,000 participants, alumni, and volunteers of Birthright, who serve as "ambassadors" for Israel in their home countries, attended the event, highlighting the organization's contribution to strengthening Israel and its connection with diaspora Jews. […]

  A series of coordinated attacks on religious institutions unfolded Sunday evening across the North Caucasus region, specifically in Russia's Dagestan Republic and the self-declared state of Abkhazia. The Israeli Foreign Ministry confirmed that no Jewish worshippers were present in the attacked synagogue, and no Israeli or Jewish casualties were reported. The violence began when […]

U.K. Reform Party candidate Ben Aston accused Jewish groups of organizing Muslim migration to Britain according to a report published by The Sunday Times, who re-discovered his erased tweets last week

The painting belonged to Jewish entrepreneur and art collector Carl Sachs who fled to Switzerland in 1939 and was forced to sell the painting in order to make a living

One suspect reportedly told police he assaulted the girl out of revenge for not disclosing to him that she was Jewish. Leftist leader Jean-Luc Melenchon denounced the case as 'racist antisemitism,' while the far right's Marine Le Pen attacked the far left for using the Gaza war to 'stigmatize Jews'

For some 60 years from the turn of the 20th century, the National Desertion Bureau tracked down Jewish husbands in America and overseas who had abandoned their wives and families. A new exhibition reveals more about this little-known, quasi-detective agency

One of the suspected perpetrators of the crime was an ex-boyfriend of the victim who reportedly said he was moved by vengeance after the victim hid from him her Jewish identity. 

In London, a Jewish father thwarted an alleged kidnapping attempt on his children near Lubavitch House during Shavuot. Stamford Hill Shomrim seeks witnesses to assist police.

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights declared that Argentina had failed to take action to stop the bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, which left 85 people dead and 300 injured, nor had it launched a thorough investigation to identify and prosecute those responsible

Nearly 1,600 Israelis between the ages of 19 and 25 will work as counselors on Jewish camps across North America this summer. In the shadow of October 7 and the war in Gaza, the Israelis know they must come prepared, and their hosts promise they are 'Ready with a shoulder to cry on'

Throughout history, the festival of Shavuot has been reframed by Jewish leaders in an effort to mold a society that could survive in exile.

Biden’s proclamation on Jewish American Heritage Month, which is essentially Jewish pride month, is that it is coming at a time when more American Jews are feeling the need to hide their Jewishness.

When cantor Iris Karlin first heard the story of Yehudit – a Jewish heroine who reputedly saved her people by seducing and beheading an Assyrian general – she was shocked that it was so little known. She aims to correct that with an opera heavy on cantorial singing and a message about the Israeli women hostages still being held in Gaza

Despite feelings of alienation from Israeli society and, in some cases, a diminished sense of personal security, there are Arab teachers in the Jewish education system who continue to believe they have a mission to fulfill

This year, Jewish students have seen their photos replaced and celebrations of Hamas's October 7 in their yearbooks.

Saif Kwasmi was slightly wounded in the head after about 10 Jewish boys attacked him. He continued to work and was later detained by police and his equipment was confiscated after a known right-wing activist contacted them and claimed that Kwasmi was a Hamas operative

The settlement is a major development in Jewish groups’ efforts to hold universities accountable in light of a reported increase in campus antisemitism since Oct. 7.

At the MiddleMeets initiative at Tel Aviv University, Arab and Jewish students talk with each other about the Holocaust, the Nakba, October 7 and the bombing of Gaza. The goal: Not to give up. Could it work on the battleground of U.S. campuses too?