Jewish World

Graffiti reading "Jewish snakes out" scrawled on fence of recently-restored synagogue in the central Greek town of Trikala, some 185 miles north of Athens.

Group founder Curtis Sliwa says "cops have not been proactive" in responding to growing anti-Semitic attacks.

Israel Hayom obtains rare image of menorah candles lit by a family of Jews who live under difficult conditions in a country that has no relations with Israel. "This shows that the light shines everywhere," says organization that made contact with family, whose members have been persecuted and killed.

The cemetery in Beirut's Sodeco district, which dates back to the early 1820s and is Lebanon's only Jewish cemetery, has been closed to the public for many years.

Israel Democracy Institute says ultra-Orthodox women are more inclined to pursue higher education and integrate into the workforce and are promoting a broad change in the standard of living in the haredi sector as a whole.

The regular Saturday protests of up to a dozen people outside the Beth Israel Congregation, with signs the lawsuit describes as hateful and anti-Semitic, amount to harassment of worshippers, so don’t qualify for full First Amendment protections, according to the lawsuit.

"We want to make sure that the Republicans, Democrats, and any Illinois citizen know that this is not a candidate that we support and we don’t want him winning the election,” Illinois GOP head says.

Winner Yedidia Meyuchas faced off against 19 other national bible quiz winners. Binyamin Rosenzweig placed second, and American Shnayor Burton of Brooklyn came in third.