Jewish museum in Portugal's oldest synagogue reopens
The Interpretive Center of Tomar Synagogue and Abraão Zacuto Luso-Hebraic Museum was abandoned in the 15th century until it was restored in 1921 by a Polish-born Jew, Samuel Schwarz.
The Interpretive Center of Tomar Synagogue and Abraão Zacuto Luso-Hebraic Museum was abandoned in the 15th century until it was restored in 1921 by a Polish-born Jew, Samuel Schwarz.
The synagogue's existence and the tacit approval it has received from this Islamic sheikhdom represent a slow rebirth of a burgeoning Jewish community in the Persian Gulf, uprooted over the decades after the creation of Israel.
Pinchas Goldschmidt, the chief rabbi of the main Orthodox rabbinical alliance in Europe, says a resurgence of anti-Semitism on the continent "poses an existential threat to the Jewish community." Goldschmidt: Receding memory of the Holocaust, rising far-right sentiment, and radical Islam are the key factors fueling the anti-Semitic climate.
University of Illinois' Students for Justice Chancellor Robert Jones of having “improperly characterized” their presentation as having anti-Semitic content. Jewish campus community not consulted.
Around 50 members of radical Sixty-Four Counties Movement burn flags, graffiti Auróra Jewish community center in Budapest. Police reportedly slow to intervene. Building sustains minor damage in attack.
Jewish civil rights group says at least a dozen white supremacists have been arrested on allegations of plotting, threatening or carrying out anti-Semitic attacks in the US since the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre in 2018.
The poll was published after German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer announced a six-point plan to combat anti-Semitism and right-wing extremism.
"We are poised to become an incredible center for Jewish life in the United States," Tree of Life's Rabbi Jeffrey Myers says. "When we reopen, and we most certainly will, I want the entire world to say, 'Wow, look at what they have done.' To do anything less disrespects the memory of our 11 martyrs."
“Join us in planting 12,000 trees of life! Make the land [of Israel] even more beautiful in their memory,” it said on the project’s event page.
Teacher at Newberries Primary School in Hertfordshire reportedly apologized after incident, telling students she was only joking and asking they not tell anyone about what she said. Around one-quarter of Hertfordshire's 8,000 residents are Jewish.
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