Ambassador Georgette Mosbacher is accused of offending the country and reminded that she is serving in a mostly Roman Catholic country • Far-right activist: "Christ died and was resurrected also for you, pagans and traitorous Jews."
For two hours, light and sound show returns Great Synagogue of Warsaw to city. Archival recordings of synagogue's cantor, Gerszon Sirota, who died in the ghetto, revive sounds of Jewish Warsaw.
Brooklyn judge sides with municipal health officials who defended order as rare but necessary step to contain surge in highly contagious disease that has infected at least 329 people so far, most of them children from Orthodox Jewish communities.
Jewish congregations in New England advised not to cross picket lines to stock up on Passover essentials at Stop & Shop stores, which carry one of the largest selections of kosher goods.
Medieval Christians received the message on Good Friday that the Jews were the enemies of Christians who killed their savior. In the wake of the Second Vatican Council, negative language about Jews was removed from the most common version of the Good Friday service. Around the same time, many Protestant churches also revised their Holy Week services so that anti-Jewish language and actions were avoided, but more needs to be done to address the legacy of hostility against Jews that remains embedded in Christian scriptures and liturgies.
Jews lived in Morocco for over 2,000 years. Today, only a handful remain. But the country offers a wealth of Jewish culture for anyone who seeks it out.
William Steinberg, the Jewish mayor of Hampstead , Quebec, refuses to heed calls from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other politicians to apologize for labeling Bill 21, which was introduced in response to the issue of Muslim women wearing hijabs in Quebec, as “ethnic cleansing."
Thousands of Hungarians attended annual March of the Living in Budapest to commemorate victims of the Holocaust, including Jane Haining, a Scottish missionary who refused to abandon her Jewish pupils and ultimately perished at Auschwitz.
For children with disabilities, King Solomon's pedagogical philosophy of "educate each child according to his own way” (Proverbs 22:6) means making the Seder more accessible and focusing on the things they can do rather than the things they can’t.
The Nazis condemned Emil Nolde's work as "degenerate art," but Nolde was also a Nazi party member and espoused their ideology • Nolde Foundation director Christian Ring: We no longer see any reason to protect him from himself.
