As a child, Gabrielle Pavlova pored over pictures of her Jewish paternal grandmother, who died decades before Pavlova was born.
An Orthodox Jewish man who worked as a security guard at a Jewish boys\’ school in Melbourne, Australia was committed to stand trial on charges of sexually abusing children.
For the first time, Argentina will have a Jewish president — at least temporarily.
Seven historic synagogues in Krakow that are closed for most of the year will open for one night.
On May 5, President Barack Obama kicked off his re-election campaign in front of a crowd of 14,000 people at Ohio State University. Obama presented his new campaign slogan, “Forward,” and strongly criticized his presumed Republican opponent Mitt Romney.
How much homophobia is there? And how much anti-Semitism? How many Muslims are beaten up because of who they are?
A new nIf Isaac Sitrin is worried about being targeted by Jew-hating thugs, then he is hiding it well. After determining that a fellow train passenger is Jewish and willing to lay tefillin, he ushers the passenger to the center of Gare du Nord train station. Praying aloud, Sitrin performs the ritual ceremony as his wife and daughters wait nearby.
A Jewish man was attacked after he left a seder at a synagogue in Kiev.
Addressing an audience of more than a thousand expatriate Iranians in Paris last Saturday, former Attorney General Michael Musasey praised the Iranian Resistance’s leader Maryam Radjavi, a known Muslim political leader, for having “opened the session by extending her sympathy to the Jewish community of Toulouse” over the violent killing of three schoolchildren and a rabbi last week in the city.
A Turkish advertisement that uses Adolf Hitler to sell men\’s shampoo has been pulled following protests by the Jewish community in Turkey.
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