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New arrivals in include six-year-old Binyamin Tasfahun, who needs lifesaving treatment for a congenital heart defect.

A total of 1,668 anti-Semitic incidents were recorded in 2020, an 8% drop from 2019, but still the third-highest yearly total since the country's Jewish communal security group began keeping records.

“The use of the pig theme is intended to humiliate,” says local inter-municipal coordination office against anti-Semitism.

While the ultra-Orthodox community is far from monolithic, many rabbis have either ignored or even intentionally flouted safety rules. For many, lockdown "physically doesn’t work" and they see it as a "human rights violation."

"The Jews dominate global finance so they have the vaccines they wanted. It's a kind of historical revenge," Rodrigo Sousa Castro, one of the leaders of the 1974 Portuguese revolution tweets. Israeli envoy: If Israel finds cure for COVID-19, Colonel Sousa Castro will have access to it. When it comes to medicine, we don't exclude anti-Semites or ignorant racists.

Between limitations on prayers and a global shift on virtually everything around us, Jews worldwide both grapple with and embrace the change.

Warning of increased activity inside houses of worship, lax adherence to COVID guidelines, World Organization of Orthodox Synagogues calls for government framework for indoor prayer.

City becomes the first capital in the world other than Jerusalem to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition of the phenomenon. Critics say IHRA's definition stifles free speech.

After US Supreme Court delivers setback to heirs of Jewish art dealers in Nazi-era dispute, Holocaust survivors call for legislation that establishes clear path for "survivors and victims' heirs to pursue remedies for genocidal thefts."