“We are proud to open the new year with thousands of new fellows excited to experience Israel firsthand and deepen their connection with the country and its people,” said Masa’s Acting CEO Ofer Gutman.
Communities rush to remove Torah scrolls as fires rage, and members open their doors to families forced to evacuate in a hurry.
“What happened after the attack is testimony to the resilience of the Jewish community, as well as the community at large. We remember and repair together,” says Pittsburgh community leader and chair of United Israel Appeal Cindy Shapira.
“We are refining our strategic mission for the coming decade, based on the challenges Jews are facing today,” says Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog.
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.
