Community members say the ministry is looking to task Chief Rabbinate with ascertaining the Jewishness of Ethiopian Israelis to bolster the Shas party’s standing ahead of the upcoming election.
Tu B’shvat celebration organized for families from Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Israel, and Chicago. Jewish Agency Chairman Herzog: Having the Jewish community from the United Arab Emirates openly join in the Jewish Agency’s Tu B’shvat celebrations, connecting with other communities, is one of the exciting moments of our time.
Legislative initiatives against Jewish traditions send a “clear signal” to European Jews that “their way of life is not welcome in today’s Europe,” Jewish Agency head Isaac Herzog says.
Organizer of vaccine drive in the Jewish Community of Vienna Erika Jakubovits: They have suffered so much trauma and have felt even more insecure during this pandemic.
Yoram Haimi of the Israel Antiquities Authority: The hardest thing is to hear that one of the kids who tag you're holding in our hand arrived at Sobibor on a train full of children ages four to eight, who were sent here to die alone.
Bill Harvey, 96, who lost 37 family members at Auschwitz, says Jan. 6 attack by supporters of then-President Donald Trump reminded him of Nazi misinformation and propaganda.
Having remained one of the only European countries that has not offered restitution to its Holocaust survivors, Luxembourg pledges to pay reparations and return Jewish property to its rightful owners.
We briefly reflect every year on the victims and the enormity of the crimes against them. But now, with the resurgence of anti-Semitism in our own time, we must focus ever more on the absurd irrationality behind it.
A study by the ministry shows the coronavirus is used to spread conspiracy theories that Jews caused the pandemic, are controlling global health resources.
Discovery of 10 phylacteries in bunker dug ahead of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising points to underground prayer quorums held inside the bunker, “underground and under the Nazis’ noses,” Holocaust institute director says.
